Aleksandarcox

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1. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   They are sicker and immobile, but job that you have to do with them is similar to those in Neurology. Change sheets, diapers, pajamas, prepare and give therapy, feed them, turn them in bed, etc. It is more stressful, but it is also physically much l...

2. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   @MECO28 You are expected to always be somewhere around them.

3. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   This is how our hospitals look like

4. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   Well, it will be all clear to you if I say that that is one of the easiest departments for work. Compared to others where are immobile patients like Neurology, Traumatology, Oncology. In Traumatology ratio is 10:1 at day, and 15:1 at night. And all p...

5. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   I know that's how it should be, but that's situation in my country.

6. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   ICU is one of the best departments to work in my surrounding. Ratio is 1:5-7.

7. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   So to be clear. Our ratio at day is 20:1 and at night 30:1. And we do everything. Change diapers, sheets, pajamas, wash patients, transfer patients, manually (by hand) transfer patients from one bed to another, which is very hard. We prepare and give...

8. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

   Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

   12/24;12/48. That's our schedule how we work. 12 hours day shift, 24 hours rest. Then 12 hours night shift, and after that 48 hours rest. But I do only day shifts, so I work 12 hours, and rest 36 hours. Which is very hard because on day we have incre...

9. Nurse to Patient Ratio in a SNF

   Aleksandarcox replied to 1mommy03's topic in Safety

   I know how you feel. Believe me. I work in Neurology. 3 of us work on 60 patients at day and two at night. Some 30 of those 60 are really bad and in most cases had bad strokes and can't move. I work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We work 12 hours shift...

10. What is the maximum number of patients per nurse?

    Aleksandarcox replied to Info(RN)matics's topic in Med-Surg

    I work in Neurology. 3 of us work on 60 patients at day and two at night. Some 30 of those 60 are really bad and in most cases had bad strokes and can't move. I work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We work 12 hours shifts. 12/24;12/48.