MSIs | Irritation and allergy | Other injuries | Puncture | All injuries | |
RN | |||||
ICU | 47 (8.3) | 19 (14.0) | 7 (4.8) | 22 (9.2) | 95 (8.7) |
ER | 69 (12.2) | 20 (14.7) | 15 (10.2) | 21 (8.8) | 125 (11.5) |
Rehabilitation/extended care | 20 (3.5) | 2 (1.5) | 5 (3.4) | 5 (2.1) | 32 (2.9) |
General medical | 197 (34.7) | 50 (36.8) | 46 (31.3) | 76 (31.8) | 369 (33.9) |
Surgery/operating room | 127 (22.4) | 29 (21.3) | 38 (25.9) | 88 (36.8) | 282 (25.9) |
Psychiatric | 30 (5.3) | 3 (2.2) | 13 (8.8) | 2 (0.8) | 48 (4.4) |
IC and related | 42 (7.4) | 6 (4.4) | 9 (6.1) | 16 (6.7) | 73 (6.7) |
Other | 23 (4.1) | 4 (2.9) | 7 (4.8) | 4 (1.7) | 38 (3.5) |
Float staff | 12 (2.1) | 3 (2.2) | 7 (4.8) | 5 (2.1) | 27 (2.5) |
Total acute RN | 567 52.1 | 136 12.5 | 147 13.5 | 239 21.9 | 1,089 |
Total non-acute | 4 50.0 | 0 | 0 | 4 50.0 | 8 |
Total RN overall | 571 52.1 | 136 12.4 | 147 13.5 | 243 22.2 | 1097 |
LPN | |||||
ICU | 1 (0.6) | 0 | 0 | 1 (3.0) | 2 (0.8) |
ER | 9 (5.1) | 2 (9.5) | 1 (5.9) | 2 (6.1) | 14 (5.6) |
Rehabilitation/extended care | 37 (20.9) | 4 (19.0) | 3 (17.6) | 2 (6.1) | 46 (18.5) |
General medical | 73 (41.2) | 11 (52.4) | 6 (35.3) | 13 (39.4) | 103 (41.5) |
Surgery/operating room | 28 (15.8) | 3 (14.3) | 2 (11.8) | 6 (18.2) | 39 (15.7) |
Psychiatric | 0 | 0 | 1 (5.9) | 0 | 1 (0.4) |
IC and related | 20 (11.3) | 1 (4.8) | 3 (17.6) | 8 (24.2) | 32 (12.9) |
Other | 3 (1.7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (1.2) |
Float staff | 6 (3.4) | 0 | 1 (5.9) | 1 (3.0) | 8 (3.2) |
Total acute LPN | 177 71.4 | 21 8.5 | 17 6.8 | 33 13.3 | 248 |
Total non-acute | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total LPN overall | 177 71.4 | 21 8.5 | 17 6.9 | 33 13.3 | 248 |
CA | |||||
ICU | 1 (0.5) | 2 (7.7) | 0 | 0 | 3 (1.0) |
ER | 10 (4.8) | 2 (7.7) | 2 (4.3) | 1 (4.2) | 15 (5.0) |
Rehabilitation/extended care | 89 (43.0) | 5 (19.2) | 20 (43.5) | 3 (12.5) | 117 (38.6) |
General medical | 18 (8.7) | 2 (7.7) | 5 (10,9) | 2 (8.3) | 27 (8.9) |
Surgery/operating room | 17 (8.2) | 1 (3.8) | 2 (4.3) | 2 (8.3) | 22 (7.3) |
Psychiatic | 4 (1.9) | 1 (3.8) | 2 (4.3) | 0 | 7 (2.3) |
IC and related | 41 (19.8) | 10 (38.5) | 8 (17.4) | 15 (62.5) | 74 (24.4) |
Other | 22 (10.6) | 3 (11.5) | 6 (13.0) | 1 (4.2) | 32 (10.6) |
Float staff | 5 (2.4) | 0 | 1 (2.2) | 0 | 6 (2.0) |
Total acute CA | 207 68.3 | 26 8.6 | 46 15.2 | 24 7.9 | 303 |
Total non-acute | 29 59.2 | 5 10.2 | 10 20.4 | 5 10.2 | 49 |
Total CA overall | 236 67.0 | 31 8.8 | 56 18.5 | 29 8.2 | 352 |
ER, emergency room; IC, infection control; ICU, intensive care unit.
CA represents care-aides, nursing assistants, community health workers; IC and related represents infection control, sterile processing, housekeeping, laundry and cleaners.
Values in round parentheses represent acute department column percentages; values in square parentheses represent row percentage for nature of injury.
MSI represents any incident (single or multiple nature of injury) that includes MSIs.
Irritation and allergy represents the combined incidents comprised of the nature of injury: skin irritation, skin/mucous membrane exposure (including eye), eye irritation, allergic response, and respiratory irritation.
Other injuries include burns, cuts, bruises, psychiatric trauma and unspecified injuries.
Personnel allocated to various departments to adjust for workload peaks or to replace missing personel.
These are home-care RNs and CAs who work from an office in an acute care facility.