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Area of Science:

Nursing
Healthcare Management
Patient Care

Background:

Float pool nurses provide flexible staffing across units.
Scheduled unit staff nurses have consistent unit assignments.
Understanding patient assignment differences is crucial for equitable workload distribution.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare patient assignment differences between float pool nurses and scheduled unit staff nurses.
To determine if float pool nurses receive more complex patient assignments.

Main Methods:

Comparative analysis of patient assignments.
Examination of nurse assignment data.

Main Results:

A trend suggested float pool nurses received more difficult patient assignments.
This trend did not reach statistical significance at the alpha=0.05 level.

Conclusions:

No statistically significant difference in patient assignment difficulty was found between float pool and scheduled nurses.
Further investigation into potential biases in patient assignment is warranted.