Title: Analysis of nurse dependency of burn patients using national burn injury database information 
Objective: To analyse the nurse dependency data in the International Burn Injury Database (iBID) to see how it can be used to inform workload measurement, quality of care and establish optimal staffing levels.
Methodology: An exploratory statistical analysis of the iBID database, using a correlational design in order to measure the degree of association and prediction between the variables relating to burn severity and nursing activities. This data has been collected from the burn units and burn centres in England and Wales since 2007.
Results: Five workload measurements have been used to formulate a nurse dependency total for each patient every day that could be used as a burn workload model. This presentation will describe the initial results of correlation between this nurse dependency model totals and burn severity variables such as location of care, TBSA, age and outcome.
Discussion: Concerns over balancing nurse staffing levels with patient acuity is not a new phenomenon yet there continues to be difficulty in quantifying workload and the subsequent number of staff required for good patient outcomes. One of the reasons for this could be that there are few suitable and validated nurse dependency tools available to predict or support staffing levels. Those in use in the UK do not address the specific challenges of patients with a burn. The results to date show that there is a complex relationship between the nursing workload measurements described here and burn variables.