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Staffing (especially nursing staffing) is a challenging metric.  Most of the places I've worked in use a dynamic staffing model where a certain number of nurses are "on call" and will be brought in depending on staffing needs (usually determined by the nurse manager some time before the shift).  This does create situations where a physical bed will be available for a patient but a staffed bed won't become available until change of shift.  If that is the case, that would explain the high variability from day to day, but would be a dramatic underestimate, because some beds could be staffed if nurses can be called in.  Perhaps it is a count of "staffable beds", that is, the number of beds that could be made available if everyone is brought in.  Would be worth finding out, because depending on how you measure it, it could be a very soft count or a harder count of bed availability.

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[BostonCard]

Staffing (especially nursing staffing) is a challenging metric.  Most of the places I've worked in use a dynamic staffing model where a certain number of nurses are "on call" and will be brought in depending on staffing needs (usually determined by the nurse manager some time before the shift).  This does create situations where a physical bed will be available for a patient but a staffed bed won't become available until change of shift.  If that is the case, that would explain the high variability from day to day, but would be a dramatic underestimate, because some beds could be staffed if nurses can be called in.  Perhaps it is a count of "staffable beds", that is, the number of beds that could be made available if everyone is brought in.  Would be worth finding out, because depending on how you measure it, it could be a very soft count or a harder count of bed availability.

BC