Staffing levels: who’s counting? Survey analysis in association withand reporting it, but under- staffing seems to carry on regardless. Some 30% said they take a staffing level census once per shift and a quarter of respondents said they took one per day . Nurses are taking a com- prehensive look at their wards. Most nurses examined patient acuity and patient dependency data. And a quar- ter of respondents also trian- gulated acuity, dependency and staffing lev els against the safety thermometer. Is anybody listening? Despite these efforts on the floor to capture and report staffing level data, our survey showed that faith in manage- ment putting the informa- tion to good use diminished up the chain. While nearly half of nurses felt ward management put census dat

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