A registered nurse has just entered the hospital?s float pool. The nurse has worked on various nursing units and today is working in the outpatient surgery unit
The nurse asks another staff nurse why the unit is not staffed as heavily on the weekend. The best answer would be: 1. The unit is busy on the weekends but the management provides a skeleton crew to manage the census.
2. The unit is not busy on the weekends because surgeons do not schedule procedures on the weekend.
3. The surgeons only schedule emergency procedures on the weekends.
4. The unit is open to non-emergent procedures on the weekends.
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Explanation: 1. Staffing is less on the weekends because the case load is less is the only appropriate answer.
The management would not schedule less staff on a weekend when the unit has the same
census as during the week. This would violate staffing guidelines. The surgeons scheduling
emergent cases would not affect this unit; these patients would come from the emergency
room or an inpatient unit. Non-emergent cases may be scheduled on the weekend but the
necessity of the case has nothing to do with scheduling.
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