[Verified Answer]: Metropolis Health System (MHS) uses a…

Metropolis Health System (MHS) uses a basic workweek of 40 hours throughout the system. Thus one full-time employee works 40 hours per week. MHS also uses a standard 24-hour scheduling system of three 8-hour shifts. The Director of Nursing needs to compute the staffing requirements to fill the Operating Room positions. Since MHS is a trauma center the OR is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At present, staffing is identical for all seven days of the week, although the Director of Nursing is questioning the efficiency of this method. The Operating Room Department is staffed with 2 nursing supervisors on the day shift and 1 nursing supervisor apiece on the evening and night shifts. There are 2 technicians on the day shift, 2 technicians on the evening shift, and 1 technician on the night shift. There are 3 RNs on the day shift, 2 RNs on the evening shift, and 1 RN plus 1 LPN on the night shift. In addition, there is one aide plus one clerical on the day shift only. Required Use the Excel workbook you downloaded in Module 1 titled: HSC414 Finance Workbook Open the tab “M4 FTE Computation”. Complete each position and shift with number of positions on each shift and total FTE hours for each shift. Compute the total number of FTEs required to fill the Operating Room staffing positions.