Las Vegas Safe Staffing Ratio ?

May 28, 2006 09:26 AM

by mark hamel

To bad for the patients and nurses.......... http://www.inbusinesslasvegas.com/20...ealthcare.html

1pinkrose · May 30, 2006, 01:55 AM

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Yes it is sad, but true! Is there a nursing shortage everywhere, or just in Vegas?? Part of the problem is the number of people moving to the area on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. The flip side of the coin is the lack of a sufficient number of nursing instructors at CCSN and UNLV.

nursebear168 · Jun 26, 2006, 03:34 PM

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This article make me think twice moving to Vegas.

*cariad* · Jun 26, 2006, 10:00 PM

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there wouldnt be such a shortage of nurses in nevada if the ratios were the same as california.
why would a nurse come from cali with a ratio of 1;5 to work with a ratio of 1;8 and no-one to cover your breaks, so maybe you dont get them!

dubkaf · Jul 17, 2006, 11:50 PM

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Not to mention that nevada is one of the worse states that pays nurses. Under-paid and over-staffed?

Its sad to say but most nurses I know that will be graduating at CCSN will not be staying in this state after they get their license.

oncrn17 · Sep 08, 2006, 03:37 PM

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There is a nursing shortage everywhere. I have been an RN for 25 yrs and hope for another good 25! I work in a large downtown Chicago hospital and our day staffing ratios are 1:6-8 patients. I often eat my lunch on the run, but I wouldn't trade nursing for any other job. I currently work on a spinal cord injury unit in a rehab hospital. I am seriously considering a move to NV.

*cariad* · Sep 10, 2006, 03:38 AM

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just because there is a nursing shortage everywhere doesnt mean that you have to have an unsafe assignment. with 6-8 patients on the day shift, there can be no way that they get the time from the nurse that they should.
there is the same shortage in california, but they manage to only give 5 patients to each member of staff because it is mandated.
where I work right now in arizona, there is a big shortage, but this hospital has a 5-1 patient ratio. so it can be done.

tusnchargers · Dec 10, 2006, 10:40 PM

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There are a number of strikes going on in Las Vegas regarding the nurse-patient ratio. Nurses want safer standards for their patients in order to give them better care. However will a nurse-patient ratio solve the problem? There are advantages and disadvantages concerning a nurse-to-patient ratio. They all vary and should be highly considered. Nurses around valley and desert springs hospital feel that patient ratios set a safety net for patients and nurses and I agree that they will. However, others say that the rigid nurse-patient ratio will turn away patients. Some advantages for a nurse-client ratio include safer environments for patients, incentives for nurses to return to bedside, gathering the collection of nursing relevant data within the healthcare system, and showing the complexity of the issue of safe and adequate staffing levels. Some disadvantages include expecting patient ratios to become normal for nurses, data collection and comprehensive workload measurement tools are not available or not applied in many cases, and some argue that ratios don't reflect the level of expertise an experienced nurse has obtained. As I watched the news they stated that nurses and contractors/administrators have 30 days to reach an agreement. I hope this matter can be solved for the nurses and especially for the patients' sake.

gitterbug · Dec 11, 2006, 07:34 AM

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As nurses we better support safer nurse /patient ratio numbers if we ever want truly improved working conditions.

SandraRN · Jan 09, 2007, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by tusnchargers

There are a number of strikes going on in Las Vegas regarding the nurse-patient ratio. Nurses want safer standards for their patients in order to give them better care. However will a nurse-patient ratio solve the problem? There are advantages and disadvantages concerning a nurse-to-patient ratio. They all vary and should be highly considered. Nurses around valley and desert springs hospital feel that patient ratios set a safety net for patients and nurses and I agree that they will. However, others say that the rigid nurse-patient ratio will turn away patients. Some advantages for a nurse-client ratio include safer environments for patients, incentives for nurses to return to bedside, gathering the collection of nursing relevant data within the healthcare system, and showing the complexity of the issue of safe and adequate staffing levels. Some disadvantages include expecting patient ratios to become normal for nurses, data collection and comprehensive workload measurement tools are not available or not applied in many cases, and some argue that ratios don't reflect the level of expertise an experienced nurse has obtained. As I watched the news they stated that nurses and contractors/administrators have 30 days to reach an agreement. I hope this matter can be solved for the nurses and especially for the patients' sake.

I am hoping to correct the misconsception of a "number of strikes going on in L.V". Desert and Valley Hosp. have not striked! They were "locked out" by the employer. Our community legislators helped devert the strike. The nurses agreed to a cooling off period. UHS initially "declined" the first offer of a "30 day cooling of period"by Mayor Oscar Goodman. Well that did not go over well. So the Governor, Assembly Speaker, County Comissioner have also stepped in and managed to encourage UHS to a "60 day cooling off period". As of this day the first 30 have passed without progress. I am getting lots of coworkers asking if we will have to have another vote to strike. I HOPE NOT! What UHS refuses to even address is the Staffing Ratios. I am wondering also about what resolving this for the patients sake means. I see better ratios as better care and better patient outcomes. UHS sees ratios as "just don't work". Could they explain that a little better? And for the patients sake, the county makes sure a hospital is well staffed for if and when a strike notice is given. If they are not, patients are sent to other facilities, elective surgeries aren't scheduled,etc.. What happens if this continues is that patients,as before, continue to suffer and we as nurses put our nursing licences at risk.

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