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Nursing hours per patient: a method for allocation of staff in midwifery
1Centre for Applied Health Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
International Journal of Nursing Studies
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
This paper describes the findings of a study of 43 midwifery wards in Northern Ireland. The Nursing Hours Per Patient (NHPP) index is extended to the calculation of appropriate indices for five categories of midwifery ward, antenatal, delivery, postnatal, special care baby units, combined units (including delivery wards) and combined antenatal and postnatal wards. These indices are used to examine the distribution of nursing staff in relation to occupied beds.