Do You Deliver Safe Patient Care?

[CareBayer]

1. How many patient's do you care for on your floor?

2. What type of floor do you work on?

3. Do you feel like you are able to deliver safe and effective care considering your patient load?

4. How often do you feel that you are not able to deliver safe care?

[linzz]

This is interesting because where I live in Ontario, on an acute medical/surgical floor, the daytime load is 5 patients and 6 sometimes in desperate situations and 6 patients at night. In long term care, the usual amount is anywhere from 32 to 42 patients, in retirement it is between 60 and 90. I have to agree that when medicating over 40 people, you are just glad they are alive at the end of the day.:angryfire What I have noticed is that there is a real difference in safe loads depending on the facility.