Ratio of Pharmacists to Patient Census or Hospital Beds

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Fri, 05/29/2020 - 11:32

Chad Simpson

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Ratio of Pharmacists to Patient Census or Hospital Beds

Does anyone have safe staffing guidelines (internal or published) for the number of pharmacists necessary to staff a hospital pharmacy (order verification/dispensing role) based on census numbers or bed numbers?

Do you flex your staffing numbers daily for census fluctuations (up/down)?

Does your ratio change for overnight coverage? If so, please elaborate.

I found a very general answer at ManagedHealthCareExecutive.com (from 1:50 to 1:100), but not really from ASHP, DNV, CMS, TJC, etc ... unless I'm missing it.

Thanks -
Chad

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