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Budgeted Hours Per Patient Day in Inpatient (Acute) Dialysis Units

By Maria Locklear posted 05-09-2014 12:59

  
I am reaching out to see what others acute units are budgeted for hours per patient day and how productivity is measured in your units.
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Pauline Marroquin
01-15-2017 20:23

Our unit has both 8 bed unit and we average 20 ICU patients daily. We meet budget when we have less patients to dialyze outside of the unit.

Patricia Spina
09-08-2015 08:23

In our acute unit (>6000 treatments per year), we are budgeted for a little less than 5.2 Worked hours per treatment.

Catherine Grant
12-03-2014 12:07

One way to decrease your unit of service time is to have a multi bed room. The nurse can do 2 patients at once. We do a volume of 1100-1200 rxs/year. About 10-15% are 1:1 ICU/CCU patients., The rest are 2:1. Our UPOS is 4.

Erica Lee
09-12-2014 11:42

We are measured in unit of service (UOS) and it varies by facility. My UOS is 5.7 hours, but will decrease to 4.6 hours next year. If we can complete each treatment within the alloted UOS we are considered productive.

Laura Schmidt
07-17-2014 23:03

Acute team i worked on allowed one hour for set up pre hemo and one hour to take down. It is possible, when everything goes right, to take a patient off and start the next one within an hour. The one hour pre snd post was fair. I could usually move faster than that. We heated only our machine at end of day, extra time was allowed for bleaching.