Common use of Other Factors Clause in Contracts

Other Factors. In agreeing that the tool is a means of facilitating informed discussion and decision making about nursing workloads, there are a range of other factors to consider. These factors include but need not be limited to patient type (for example, high dependency patients, day only patients, patients requiring close observation, patients awaiting nursing home placement); the available level of support staff (xxxx clerks, lifting teams etc); teaching and research activities; provision of nurse escorts; emergency presentations in smaller facilities; and xxxx geography. Staffing of wards/units will be planned using 1 = 4.8 NHPPD as the value of the nursing weight. It is recognised that application of this value will be subject to variation to account for these other factors or over shorter periods of time. If there is continued variation from this value in practice, the issue will be considered by the relevant Reasonable Workload Committee.