Originally Posted by butterflynurse That sounds nice. The least patients per nurse in my nursing home is 27 per nurse for meds and charting and that is the "tube feeder hall" where nearly all patients are tube feeders. We have a treatment nurse also. I wish we could have a nurse at each desk. I think sometimes the people in the business office think we are at the desk all day and when we are in a room busy they page us to the phone and page us over and over, like they don't know how to take a message!
May I add that we have a very low key environment, one tube feeding, no iv's etc. No vents, trachs, suction, things like that. We also have two unit clerks as well as two unit assistants and two restorative aides in the day.
And my staff (some of them) still think they can't possibly work under these conditions and do a good job. Nurses from other facilities who come here, however, think they went to heaven!
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