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Staffing requirements are typically influenced by several key factors, including employee availability, task complexity, and workload distribution.

Current hourly wages, while important for budgeting and compensation strategies, do not directly affect the number of staff needed to perform specific tasks or manage workloads. Staffing decisions are focused on operational needs — ensuring that the right number of personnel is available to handle the patient care demands, the complexity of tasks they need to complete, and the distribution of work among employees.

In contrast, employee availability impacts whether or not a facility can effectively allocate staffing resources during critical times. Task complexity determines how many skilled individuals are required to manage different aspects of healthcare delivery. Workload distribution examines how tasks and responsibilities are shared among staff, which directly informs how many people are needed. Wages may influence recruitment or retention but do not dictate requirements for staffing levels in response to operational needs.