Acute Care CNAs, patient ratio.

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Specializes in Acute Care.

How many patients do your CNAs have in an acute care/hospital setting?

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Specializes in cardiothoracic surgery.

Day shift-5

PM shift-6

Noc shift-1-2 CNA's for the whole floor

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Specializes in Acute Care.

Wow. Our day shift CNAs often have 10-14

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Specializes in Cadiothoracic, psychiatric.

I'm on a 38 bed unit and we only have two aides.

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Specializes in HH, SNF, LTC, Hospital.

22 bed med/surg (Neuro) unit, 2 aides. It can be rough.

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I'm on a tele floor, we used to have 3 aides for 34 patients on day shift, now we have 2, sometimes 1. Noc used to have 3, then 2 and now most of the time they have 1. It's getting really ridiculus, we don't have time for anything but call lights and vitals, the patients aren't getting baths or getting turned like they should. And they RNs are stressed out too, they have 5 patients and usually the lead nurse has to take a group on top of everything else.

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