Nursing Hours per Patient Day (HPPD) and Skill Mix
Nursing hours per patient day, in total and by RN, LPN and aide, with skill mix and the hours over or under a target.
Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Patient days in the period
- 600
- RN hours
- 3000
- LPN/LVN hours
- 600
- Nurse aide hours
- 1800
- Hours counted
- Worked (productive)
- Patient days counted
- Midnight census
- Target HPPD the unit uses
- 8.5
Result: 9 nursing hours per patient day
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Patient days in the period
- RN hours
- LPN/LVN hours
- Nurse aide hours
- Hours counted
- Patient days counted
- Target HPPD the unit uses
How this is calculated
Citation
Stated arithmetic: nursing hours per patient day is nursing hours over patient days, in total and by category; skill mix is a category's share of nursing hours; the variance against a target is the HPPD difference times patient days. No primary source; no benchmark is given.
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.