Table 1.

Study units and staffing characteristics during the study period

No of admissions	58
No of patients discharged	64
Occupancy (%)	129.10
Length of stay, days	9.19
Patient/bed rotation	3.58
No of deaths	1
Admissions to ward from emergency room (%)	55.17
No of nurses observed	23
No of beds/nurse, median (p25–p75)	8 (8–10)
Career nurses (%)	52.17
Nurse age, median (p25–p75)	39 (26–42)
Experience in the unit, months, median (p25–p75)	24 (9–246)