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Table 4 Required number of nursing staff based on WISN and WISN ratio

From: Applying the workload indicators of staffing needs method in nursing health workforce planning: evidences from four hospitals in Vietnam

 

Provincial general hospital

Bac Giang

Thanh Hoa

Can Tho

Dong Thap

Number of understaffed faculties

3

2

2

3

 Internal medicine

3

2

1

2

 Surgery

0

0

1

1

Shortage in understaffed faculties

1–2

0

2/5

1

WISN ratio in understaffed faculties

0.88–0.95

0.88–0.95

0.78–0.92

0.91–0.92

Number of adequate staffed faculties

1

0

1

1

 Internal medicine

0

0

1

0

 Surgery

1

0

0

1

Number of overstaffed faculties

3

4

2

0

 Internal medicine

1

1

0

0

 Surgery

2

3

2

0

Excess in overstaffed faculties

1/3

2/3

2