Building a two-week consumable list for an 80-resident care home starts with one number: resident-days. Eighty residents over fourteen days give 1,120 resident-days, and every quantity on the list is that figure multiplied by a per-resident rate. Set the rates from your own care model, then let the arithmetic do the ordering.
How do you build a two-week list from resident-days?
Write the rate per resident-day next to each item, then multiply. If a home uses six gloves per resident-day, 1,120 resident-days means 6,720 gloves over the fortnight, or about 68 boxes of 100. If it issues three briefs per resident-day, that is 3,360 briefs. The point of the exercise is that the number is auditable: when a case count looks wrong, you can point to the rate and check it instead of guessing.
Keep the rates in one spreadsheet cell each. Two-week ordering goes wrong when someone updates a glove rate in a report but not in the order sheet, and the two quietly disagree for a month.
Which items run out first in an 80-resident home?
Gloves, briefs and hand hygiene go first, and they go first for different reasons. Gloves and briefs scale directly with resident-days, so they track the census. Hand sanitizer and washcloths scale with staff-days, not resident-days, so a home that adds an agency shift over the holidays sees those two move before anything else.
Isolation gowns and masks are the wildcard. In a quiet fortnight they barely move; in an outbreak they can double in a week, which is why the buffer matters more than the base rate.
What should the two-week checklist contain?
| Item | 14-day quantity | How it is calculated |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrile gloves | 6,720 | 1,120 resident-days x 6 gloves |
| Adult briefs | 3,360 | 1,120 resident-days x 3 briefs |
| Disposable washcloths | 2,240 | 1,120 resident-days x 2 |
| Procedure masks | 750 | 250 staff-days x 3 masks |
| Isolation gowns | 560 | 1,120 resident-days x 0.5 reserve |
| Waste bags | 56 | 4 bags per day x 14 days |
Round each line up to the pack size you actually buy. Gloves ship in boxes of 100 and cases of 10 boxes, briefs in cases of 60, and gowns in packs of 50, so the order sheet should show both the raw need and the pack-rounded figure.
Do infection-control items change the two-week count?
Yes, and the change is not linear. Base monitoring items such as gloves and briefs move with the census, but outbreak items such as gowns, masks and sanitizer move with the number of resident contacts in isolation. A home that isolates twelve residents for three days adds roughly 36 gown-and-mask sets that were not in the fortnight plan, and that is before staff change gowns between rooms.
How much buffer stock should an 80-resident home hold?
Two weeks of base use plus one week of outbreak use is a common target in Ontario long-term care. For gloves that means the 6,720 base figure plus a 3,360 outbreak reserve, held behind the live stock so the shelf in the care station never dips into the reserve. In US states such as Ohio and Michigan, nursing homes often work to a fourteen-day par level; the Ontario target tends to sit higher because the resident mix carries more continence care.
Set the reserve aside physically. A buffer that lives on the same shelf as daily stock is not a buffer, it is early consumption, and it disappears silently in the first heavy week.
Ordering for a clinic, lab or care home? Wholesale and multi-site ordering covers case pricing and account setup, and the B2B wholesale collection lists the lines stocked for institutional buyers.
Related reading
Long-term care supplies hub; Case review: LTC isolation gown stocking gap; Hand sanitizer placement and volume in Canadian nursing stations; 4 mil standard blue nitrile gloves.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many gloves does an 80-resident home use in two weeks?
At six gloves per resident-day, an 80-resident home uses 6,720 gloves across fourteen days, which is 1,120 resident-days multiplied by six. That is about 68 boxes of 100, so the order sheet should round up to 70 boxes or seven cases.
Should the two-week list be fixed or reviewed?
Review the rates every quarter, or sooner if the acuity mix changes. The items stay the same but the multipliers drift as residents need more or less hands-on care, and an unreviewed rate is the main reason a fortnight order arrives short.
How do you size the isolation-gown line?
Use a base of about half a gown per resident-day and then add an outbreak allowance. That base gives 560 gowns for 1,120 resident-days, or roughly twelve packs of fifty, with a further reserve held for any unit that goes into outbreak precautions.
Does a two-week cycle beat a monthly order?
For fast movers it usually does. A fortnight cycle keeps gloves and briefs turning over on a shelf that stays under control, and it spreads the cash flow instead of concentrating it. Slow movers such as specialty dressings can still run on a monthly cycle.
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