Nursing Assistant patient ratio's

Our nurse's aides usually have 5 patients during the day (sometimes 4 ), and I don't know about the night shift they do get more though (maybe 8?)

Koty,

I am a nursing student that works in a Peds hospital. I work on a Neuro floor. In the day the NA's get 4 or 5 pts. At night we can have anywhere from 5 to 10. If we have more than 5 it can get to be pretty overwhelming.

The pediatric nurses I've been working with for the past year and a half have FINALLY decided to unite and make a stand for the poor staffing our hospital allows. We are a seventeen bed unit that is highly promoted in our area and generally have a ten to fifteen patient turnover through the day with out the assistance of a ward/unit clerk or nurse aid with only 2 LPN/LVNs and 1 RN. Most of our admissions are direct admits and our facility does not allow LPNs to do the assessment even if the RN agrees to sign behind them. I need help from other pediatric nurses in finding the information we need to take to our CEO and CNO. Currently, our department manager counts as a direct patient care nurse...this is a person we rarely , if ever, see on the unit. We are trying to present a much safer staffing matrix that focuses on pediatric units. ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER WILL BE APPRICIATED. THANK YOU.

On my unit, we have 4 'pods' 2 are 4 pt pods, 2 are 6 pt pods. During the day, 1 NA/pod. At night they try to do the same...sometime 1 NA has to take both 4 pt pods. It can get hectic for that person especially since they are down the hall from each other and even more so if the parents are not at the bedside and they have a fussy baby.

How about 18 -20 pts per 1 NA! I really don't like my job.

How common are nurse assistants on medical floors/in paeds? I'm in Australia (& a student) and I've never seen an NA on the floor in a major hospital except for specialing patients 1:1.

our nursing assistants at University md, in Baltimore Md have 10+ on a normal day or night. If they are lucky, they get 5 if we are slow or if they have enough help but usually its a 10 to 1 ratio.