What is Nurse:Patient ratio at your hospital?

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Is in different on day shift and night shift? Do you have to do CNA's job?

i am a rn. i work in a rural hospital. my nurse patient ration on days averages 7-8 patients per nurse. on nights depending on staff it's usually 7-10. i have had as many as 12 patients. i formally worked on a cardiac floor and now i am working on a med-surg floor.:banghead:

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varies b/t 3-5. Usually 4. Mt Auburn Hosp in MA

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usually 5/6 pts at a community hospital......3-11 shift, but had 4 yesterday and that was awesome!!!:D

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I urge you all to check this safe staffing site as an extension of American Nurses Association;

http://www.safestaffingsaveslives.org/default.aspx

I have some questions about it myself, but I urge you to take the poll and back the ANA and any other organization that is working toward nurse/patient ratios that will not burn out nurses and risk patient care.

I am currently working acute med/surg on nights 7pm to 7am (which really means I'm in half an hour early and clock out half an hour later due to change of shift report, and my patient ratios have been as high as 1:7.

If our patient ration goes down to 1:4 we have to do total care, including CNA stuff and unit secretary things.

Because we have a unit secretary who spends much more time playing video games than she does inputting orders and doing her job, we have been penalized by only having her onboard until midnight any given night.

Again,,put your questions to the ANA, read the specifics, take the survey/poll and support legislation that favors treating nurses well.

The federal government is doing lots of studies on why they lose so many hospital nurses each year, and why so many leave the field altogether,,,let them know exactly why!

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I work TCU/Rehab at a SNF in Boston...I have 8 if my team is full, but tonight I had three empty beds so I had five patients--Fridays seem to be big on admits, so I'm anticipating that some of my beds will fill up tomorrow. Nervous because I'm a new grad four weeks off of orientation, and my team hasn't been full since I've been on my own--seven is the most that I've had.

I have one tech on my team, but typically we have four for the whole floor and everyone helps each other.

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I urge you all to check this safe staffing site as an extension of American Nurses Association;

http://www.safestaffingsaveslives.org/default.aspx

Kind of late this year. Mass. Senate has already declined safe ratios, thus making hospital industry very happy.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/state_senate_rejects_patientnu.html

According to Carol M. Smith, executive vice president at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton "There is a nursing shortage. It would have been very difficult to find the higher number of nurses we would need to provide one nurse for every four patients." :D

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