Emergency Department Staffing

This course will introduce the nurse leader to the principles of staffing: calculating full-time equivalents, determining the staffing plan, calculating a staffing budget, and measuring ED productivity. Course expires 8/31/2025.

Additional Information

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Description

Staffing needs in the emergency department may be determined by several factors, including volume, acuity, and length of stay of ED patients, as well as facility characteristics such as STEMI, trauma, or stroke designation, teaching status, and the population served by the institution. While inpatient units, with a designated level of care and often limited patient population, may identify staffing needs by nurse-to-patient ratios, these ratios are ineffective when addressing ED staffing needs (Rogers, 2021).

This course will introduce the nurse leader to the principles of staffing: calculating full-time equivalents, determining the staffing plan, calculating a staffing budget, and measuring ED productivity.

Authors:
Susan Domagala, MSN, RN, NEA-BC
Jonathan Green, DNP, RN, CEN, FACHE

Learners will be awarded 0.5 CNE contact hours upon a complete review of the course and submitting an evaluation. Course expires 8/31/2025.

The Emergency Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider Unit #P0232.

Summary


Availability:	On-Demand
	Access expires on 08/31/2025


Cost:	Member: $12.00 Non-Member: $15.00


Credit Offered:	0.5 Contact Hour Credit