snsbelcher

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1. Starting a position in ICU Stepdown

   snsbelcher replied to ambianco9's topic in MICU

   I work in a progressive care unit (formally titled step down), and have been here for about a year and a half. In my opinion, the step down I'd ra totally different kind of busy than the icu. No, you're not going to be in the patient's room consisten...

2. Higher patient load, higher acuity, and adverse events

   snsbelcher replied to snsbelcher's topic in Safety

   Administration isn't increasing their bottom line with these ratios. Actually, we had a 470% increase in hai's in May. We went from zero clabs, ssi's, and caudi's last year on our unit to 4 in one month! I have a hard time believing that it is more e...

3. Higher patient load, higher acuity, and adverse events

   snsbelcher posted a topic in Safety

   I work in a 30 bed Progressive care unit with 10 of our beds being licensed for ICU patients. Our administration has been proposing increasing our nurse to patient ratios from 1:3 to 1:4 or even 1:5 at night and on weekends. As of now, we are lucky t...