The Patient Acuity Module provides the opportunity for nursing personnel to project the overall or total character and amount of care that should be provided to each patient. The system categorizes the patient according to an assessment of the acuity of the illness, severity of symptoms, nursing dependency, and/or nursing interventions required. Once the patient has been classified, prediction of the number and kind of personnel needed to produce the volume and quality of nursing care required can be determined. The acuity system provides documentation to support the fact that a sufficient number of Registered Nurses were on duty at all times to give patients the specialized care according to the number of patients, specific setting, references to characteristics of patients, and established goals.