Method of assignment
You are assigned as student head nurse to general surgical unit , in X hospital, the unit design is H shape ,the unit capacity is 28 beds, distributed on fourteen rooms each room has two beds. Your clinical instructor asking you to develop an assignment sheet for nursing staff who are working in this unit; you have twenty patients, Four of them are immediate post operative, are housing in Rooms number 4, 7. Twelve patients are Intermediate care (require above average amount of nursing care) distributed on the following Rooms numbers; 1,2,3,5, 6,8 and four patients are Partial care (require an average amount of nursing care) allocating in room 9,11. You have two professional nurses, and two technical nurses their years of experiences are; 5,4,3,2 consecutively.
In light of this information, fill an assignment sheet pointing out method of assignment you are going to use, state your justification, principles of assignment that you must put in consideration in developing it.
- Method of assignment are going to use______________________________
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