Exercise 3.1
Answer the following questions.
1. Unit A has a count of 20 patients at 1 a.m. on September 1 and 30 patients at the same time on September 2. Would the counts have been different if unit A had taken a census at 12:01 a.m. on both days?
2. Wo
1.
Yes. The counts could have differed. Any number of admissions, discharges, or transfers could have occurred between 12 midnight and 1 a.m. on either day.
2.
No. The total hospital census would be inconsistent. Every PCU in the hospital should follow th
Exercise 3.2
Answer the following questions.
1. The census at 12:01 a.m. on June 1 is 107. Two patients are admitted on June 1 at 6:00 a.m. and discharged at 7:00 p.m. that same day. One patient admitted at 3:00 p.m. died at 5:30 p.m. the same afternoon.
1. 110
107 + 3 = 110
The unit's daily census on June 1 is 110. If students answered 107, remind them that the daily inpatient census is not always the same as the census. It can differ (and often does) when patients come in after the 12:01 a.m. head count
Exercise 3.3
Compare the definition of inpatient service day to the definitions of inpatient daily census and census. Will the figure representing an inpatient service day for any one day be the same as the figure for a daily cesus or census?
Yes.
Inpatient daily census will be the same as the figure representing an inpatient service day for any one day. The census represents the number of patients present in the hospital at any one time; it does not refer to the census-taking hour nor does it
Exercise 3.4
Given the following inpatient service days for a 65-bed hospital, what is the total number of inpatient service days provided in June?
Date Inpatient Date Inpatient Date Inpatient
June Service Days June Service Days June Service Days
1 62 11
1,729
The correct answer is 1,729, which is the result of adding all the inpatient service days in June. If students answered 58, they may be thinking ahead because 58 is the average of all the inpatient service days. If students answered 63, they gave th
Exercise 3.5
Complete the following exercises.
1. The difference between the census and the inpatient daily census is that any patients admitted and discharged the same day are added to:
a. The census to compute the daily census
b. The 12:01 a.m. (or othe
1. c
2. c
3. b
4. a
5. a
6. d
7. a
Exercise 3.6
Complete the following exercises.
1. Using the data given on page 31, calculate the census for June 2. Then fill in the blanks in the table below. Did the transfers in and transfers out balance?
2. What data will you use to begin June 3, and
Exercise 3.6
Complete the following exercises.
1. Using the data given on page 31, calculate the census for June
2. Then fill in the blanks in the table below. Did the transfers in and transfers out balance? 49 A/C, 1 Nb; 54 A/C, 2 Nb; 48 A/C, 1 Nb.
The 4
Exercise 3.7
Using the information supplied for June 1, fill in the blanks in the table below.
6/1 250 18 20 4 2 272 22 25 3 2 245 19 1 246 19
6/2 245 19 22 6 1 268 25 24 5 1 243 20 0 243 20
6/3 243 20 24 5 0 267 25 23 4 0 244 21 3 247 21
6/4 244 21 22 3 1 267 24 22 3 1 244 21 1 245 21
6/5 244 21 25 4 2 271 25 25 3 2 244 22 2 246 22
Exercise 3.8
Two hundred adult and children were in the hospital at 12:01 a.m. on August 1. There were 42 newborns at 12:01 a.m. on August 1. During August, the following data are compiled:
Admissions:
Adults and children Newborns
1,567
97
Discharges (inc
1.patient census for adults and children at 11:59 p.m. on August 31, not including newborns should be 195. Add the adult and children admissions to the patients remaining (200), then subtract the adult and children discharges and deaths.
Adult and childre
Exercise 3.9
This exercise consists of two worksheets for calculating a month's inpatient census and inpatient service days. Using the data provided for May 1, complete the first worksheet. If your findings do not match the data for May 31, you have made
1 162 2 22 1 10 194 3 19 0 10 165 3 1 166 3
2 165 3 29 0 8 202 3 23 1 8 171 2 0 171 2
3 171 2 14 2 3 188 4 24 0 3 161 4 1 162 4
4 161 4 24 0 5 190 4 25 0 5 160 4 0 160 4
5 160 4 11 1 6 177 5 25 2 6 146 3 0 146 3
6 146 3 20 0 1 167 3 16 0 1 150 3 0 150 3
7
Exercise 3.10
Complete the following exercises.
1. Community Hospital has 200 beds and 25 newborn bassinets. The total inpatient service days for February, in a non-leap year, were 4,879 for adults and children and 658 for newborns. What is the average da
1.
174
174.25 = 174
If students arrived at any other answer, they should review these steps:
1. The numerator is 4,879 (adults and children only).
2. Divide the numerator by the number of days (denominator) in February (28).
3. Carry the answer to one pla
Chapter 3 Test
1. Differentiate between the terms inpatient census and daily inpatient census .
1. Inpatient census is the number of patients present. Daily inpatient census is the number of present at census taking and patient admitted after census taking and discharged before next census taking.
2. What is an intrahospital transfer ?
2. An Intranhospital transfers is where patients move from on PCU to another within the facility.
3. Is it possible that the transfers into a patient care unit may not equal the transfers out of the same patient care unit on the same day?
3. Yes
4. When must transfers in and transfer out equal.
4. The transfer in number must match the transfer out number.
5. At 11:59 pm on Jan 1 the Community Hospital census was 321. On Jan 2 73. patients were admitted, 24 discharged , and 3 were admitted and died that day. In their ICU unit the census on the Jan 1 was admitted and later that day died in the ICU . Answer t
a. 370 (321+73)-24= 370
b. 373 (321+73)-24}+3=373
c. 14 (12+4)-3}+1=14
6. In 20XX a hospital had 150 beds for adults and children from Jan 1 through June 30 . On July 1 the hospital increased its beds to 200 and the number remained at 200 through Dec 31 . During the first six months number remained at 200 through Dec 3 . Dur
a. 27813/181= 154
b. 27813+35873(63686)/ 365= 174
c. 7890/365 = 22
d. 2002/31 = 65
Using the Statistics from the following monthly report from the nursing administration of Community Hospital m, an acute care faculty, calculate the current months June average daily inpatient census for each nursing unit and the total .
Inpatient service days / # of Days = average daily inpatient census
a. 520/30= 17
b. 87/30= 3
c. 6176/30=206
d. 383/30= 13
e. 307/30= 10
f. 603/30= 20
g. 725/30= 24
h. 213/30= 7
i. 475/30= 16
j. 135/30= 5
k. 408/30= 14