do you know a hospital with good ratios???

BrandieRNq · Mar 21, 2003

Denver Health in Colorado has a med-surg ratio of 1:4....

SmilingBluEyes · Mar 21, 2003

They are few and far between and neither the places I work have such cushy ratios for their med-surg nurses. I would love to hear from those that do know of such places.

Brownms46 · Mar 21, 2003

I have worked at a hospital in the Puget Sound that had a ratio of 1:5/6 with RN/LPN partnered together. When an Rn was alone, the ratio was 1:3/4. The charge took no pts. unless the censues was high. This ratio was on nites at a Group Health Hospital, on tjheir med-surg/tele units. Anytime the agency called for me to work at this hospital I always said yes, and would even accept late calls.

Angelica · Mar 21, 2003

Where I work as an extern on a med-surg unit the ratio is 10 pts to an RN/RN or RN/LPN team with a CNA.

lee1 · Mar 21, 2003

Originally posted by SmilingBluEyes
They are few and far between and neither the places I work have such cushy ratios for their med-surg nurses. I would love to hear from those that do know of such places.

Do you think the better ratios would bring more nurses back???

Especially if well advertised???

Repat · Mar 21, 2003

Yes, I do think better ratios would bring nurses back. It's certainly the main question I'll be asking in my search for a new job. Why the search? Because where I work now I have such a patient load that I believe it is a law suit just waiting to happen. There is no way anyone can keep all the balls in the air at once. If I were to read an ad stating 1:4 ratios in a general unit right now, I'd be knocking the door down!

welnet66 · Mar 21, 2003

UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC has a MED/SURG nurse patient ratio of 1:4/5/6 ON ALL SHIFTS!!!!!!! Came here 12 years ago with nurse patient ratio my main priority. I interviewed up and down the east coast for 18 months before I found a hospital and area with characteristics I wanted. There are many hospitals out there that will state a certain ratio, but until you wait outside and grab a nurse going home and ask them what their day was like, do you hear the truth. Good Luck!

Catherine:cool:

AHarri66, BSN, RN · Mar 21, 2003

Most of the hospitals around me have 1:4 or 1:5 ratios on Med/Surg during days. Where I work, the load may go to 1:6 on a high-census day, but in that case we usually have one or two floats to help out. Charge doesn't take an assignment on days, but does on eves and nights. Eves and nights ratios are a little higher, with nights going up to 1:7.

-jt · Mar 21, 2003

if all these places can manage to find enough nurses to actually have these ratios, it kind of blows other hospitals excuse that they cant have these ratios because there just are no nurses to be found, huh?

mattsmom81 · Mar 21, 2003

I'm glad to hear of a few places with safe ratios. I definitely think the 'shortage' would lessen if conditions improved and ratios are a big part of that equation. :)

lee1 · Mar 22, 2003

Originally posted by brefni
UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC has a MED/SURG nurse patient ratio of 1:4/5/6 ON ALL SHIFTS!!!!!!! Came here 12 years ago with nurse patient ratio my main priority. I interviewed up and down the east coast for 18 months before I found a hospital and area with characteristics I wanted. There are many hospitals out there that will state a certain ratio, but until you wait outside and grab a nurse going home and ask them what their day was like, do you hear the truth. Good Luck!
Catherine:cool:

Is M Tonges the senior VP of nursing or CNO there????