Our Ortho floor RN's regularly carry 6:1/ 7:1 at all times going up to 8 patients at times while waiting for discharges. I work weekends where staffing is usually worse plus we discharge a lot & begin getting medical overflow admits. I'm very comfortable carrying 6 patients but something about the 7th brings chaos. Our poor techs carry 9-12 patients. This is very hard on the techs & we have a lot of unsatisfied patients due to the time it takes us to get from one room to another. It usually takes no less than 15 minutes to get a patient up safely to ambulate to the bathroom.
Oct 1, '12 by sweetgeorgia5-6 pts per nurse.
Oct 17, '12 by FollowThru11Our Ortho floor RN's regularly carry 6:1/ 7:1 at all times going up to 8 patients at times while waiting for discharges. I work weekends where staffing is usually worse plus we discharge a lot & begin getting medical overflow admits. I'm very comfortable carrying 6 patients but something about the 7th brings chaos. Our poor techs carry 9-12 patients. This is very hard on the techs & we have a lot of unsatisfied patients due to the time it takes us to get from one room to another. It usually takes no less than 15 minutes to get a patient up safely to ambulate to the bathroom.