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1. Comparing ERs

   PAEMT replied to Emisa's topic in Emergency

   I am from NY hence the terrible ratios. The other nurses try to cover for you if they can when you have a code or critical come in. I'm sure our management would love us to have higher ratios but we run out of physical space in the ED with 9-10 patie...

2. Comparing ERs

   PAEMT replied to Emisa's topic in Emergency

   Our patient population is very very diverse, many immigrants, some people get off the plane and come right to our hospital. Our population has for the most part very low health literacy and little to no access to primary care. Acuity is variable thou...

3. ER staff to patient ratio and acuity

   PAEMT replied to sreynolds's topic in Emergency

   We have 8:1 (or 9 or 10) ratios. Sometimes if you get a code or vented patient the float nurse will take over care for a bit. If your lucky your ratio goes down when you have a critical.

4. Comparing ERs

   PAEMT replied to Emisa's topic in Emergency

   It looks like my ER is a little different so I'll give you a run down of how it works here we have a nurse up front next to registration who gets the chief complaint while registration is putting the patient into the system, then that nurse will eit...