Awareness of Patient Acuity Tool among Staff Nurses at Selected Tertiary Care Hospitals

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Pratima Gadekar
Vaishali R. Mohite
Mahadeo Shinde

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INTRODUCTION The investigator investigated the hypothesis that staff nurses who worked in the medical and surgical department had a significant impact on the outcomes of their patients and the mortality rate. Patients and staff nurses are both negatively impacted when there is a mismatch between the clinical severity of a client and the nurse workload indicators. The consequences for the clients get worse as a result of the inflated death rates and relative incidence.


The patients' level of satisfaction drops when they realise that their needs cannot possibly be met by the care they are receiving. When they are unable to meet the requirements of their case in an efficient manner, staff nurses also notice a decline in their level of contentment. The contentment of patients has an impact on the amount of money that healthcare facilities are paid. The level of contentment felt by patients and the sense of community fostered within the organisation of the healthcare institution can both have an impact on the mental health of the nursing staff. Due to the sensitivity of the situation, nursing workers may hold different beliefs. The employment of an objective acuity evaluation method that keeps the balance in the nursing delegation of work in the department of medical-surgical causes a reduction in the number of occasions on which revival events take place.


The goal of the study was to ascertain the degree of awareness existing among nurse staffing concerns in the acute care context regarding the client acuity tool.


3Nurses regularly report a high level of unhappiness with their task environment as a result of the uneven distribution of their duties. The classification and categorization of patients in accordance with an analysis of nursing care requirements and patient demands is the definition of what is known as a patient acuity tool, or PAT for short. Patients in medical and surgical wards may require nursing care ranging from the most basic to the most advanced levels, depending on the severity of their condition. 4Assisting nurses in prioritising and achieving individualization of care for each patient during each shift assignment can be accomplished through the identification of each patient's needs.


Nurses are the only members of the medical staff that spend the majority of their time interacting directly with patients. The ratio of employed nurses in hospitals is higher than that of other health care professionals; as a result, the care that nurses deliver has a considerable impact on how patients see the quality of their care and how satisfied they feel overall.

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Gadekar, P. ., R. Mohite, V. ., & Shinde, M. . (2022). Awareness of Patient Acuity Tool among Staff Nurses at Selected Tertiary Care Hospitals. Journal of Coastal Life Medicine, 10(3), 598 –. Retrieved from https://www.jclmm.com/index.php/journal/article/view/239
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