A nurse can dream...about awesome nursing

Go to the ICU and only take care of 2 patients max

Right, I wouldn't mind working in ICU but it is very specialized. I graduate in March (God willing) and will try to start in Med/Surg.

Wow....its almost hard to believe somewhere this idea actually exists!
sign me up!

Look out, though.......they might want you to bake cookies and tuck the patients in every night under eiderdown quilts

I agree ... I came away from the article thinking that it might not be quite all that it seems. At first I thought maybe it was just the headline "Catered Care" that irked me, but I'm not sure.

The nurse-patient ratio is certainly ideal. So is the all-private-rooms design. Some things though - the "gourmet meals", the brief PACU time, and the extremely low post-op infection rate - indicate to me that this is likely a very select patient population who are low-risk candidates without comorbidities. In other words, a patient population that would likely do pretty well even under more typical nursing care scenarios. Maybe I would have felt better about the article (it is in a nursing-oriented web publication, after all) if it would have more specifically detailed how nurses can better monitor patients post-op with the lower ratio.

But wouldn't it be great to extrapolate what effect a low 1:3 ratio and all private rooms would have on the general patient population! There's the dream.

Well, I don't know. I work on a unit that has all private rooms, huge with great views. It's nice but...1) the whole gang visits all the time. Not unusual to have a dozen visitors in a room. 2) As nurses we walk and we walk and we walk and we walk all shift to see our patients and to fetch things. It has a very bad effect on our feet and our productivity.

How the heck is this place funded?

I don't care if I'm baking cookies and tucking patients in under quilts if I'm taking care of 3 medsurg patients.

I work with a 1:3 patient ratio now, but it's more critical care than medsurg.

Keep dreaming....not to be cynical but seriously.

Pretty sweet. A little too sweet. You can bet there aren't any medi-cal patients there. I knew someone who worked in Redding(not that hospital) and she said it was really nice there, and the hospital where she worked treated her pretty nice too.