Our coordinator last night kept sending every non-critical case from the ER to our floor (Med-Surg), until we were out of beds (we have 35 on our unit). Every nurse had 8 pts, except for the poor charge nurse who had 9. WE wound up being short a nurse because that SAME coordinator called her off when we had only 24 pts. Then less than 2 1/2 hours we're a full floor!!! Meanwhile other floors had 24-28 pts!!! And the nurse/pt. ratio 4-1. The coordinator's reason? "Oh i like the way you all do your job compared to the other floors". So pile the work on them double time. GREAT idea.