Is this a reasonable workload for oncology?

Hi, all,

I'm under consideration for a PRN (maybe full-time) job in oncology; the manager is really taking her time, which is fine. In the meantime, maybe you can give me some insight as to whether the following sounds reasonable/doable on an inpatient hematology/medical oncology floor.

Nurse pt ratio 1:5 (this was apparently recently lowered). NAs/techs have 12 pts each, which means that a nurse may end up with a primary pt as well (manager says techs "are wonderful and usually take care of those pts as well". I guess if they like you )

Nurses are expected to call the physicians themselves (instead of the charge nurse doing this). Sounds reasonable to me, but is it?

Nurses start their own IVs, although the hospital has an IV team.

Nurses are expected to hang chemo after a year. They get a two day course to become certified, but it's not by ONS (I hope I remember this correctly).

A 1:5 ratio sounds reasonable to me, but maybe I've been away from med/surg too long (I even did oncology very briefly with a 1:7 ratio that I could definitely not manage as a new grad. Neither did I do too well with the 1:8 ratio on a med/tele/stepdown unit. All this was a decade ago, though).

Thanks for any info, I really appreciate it!

DeLana

P.S. I would love to get the job, I really want to work in oncology.