Fl Staffing Ratios

ANnot4me · Dec 15, 2015

Florida, ratios, union, what???? I would sooner work for free. Florida is notoriously a bad state in which to work.

not2bblue · Dec 17, 2015

There are unsafe numbers for recommendations that could get the place in trouble. Like 1 nurse for 100 beds, but there is not a specific law for ratios as there are in many other states. Call the BON and ask. Anything anyone could tell you here, you can research for yourself so I would just go right to the BON with this question.

VANurse2010 · Dec 18, 2015

There are unsafe numbers for recommendations that could get the place in trouble. Like 1 nurse for 100 beds, but there is not a specific law for ratios as there are in many other states. Call the BON and ask. Anything anyone could tell you here, you can research for yourself so I would just go right to the BON with this question.

There are NO laws for ratios in any state except California, and those laws apply to acute care hospitals only.

ttt4271 · Dec 20, 2015

Actually Florida does have LTC staffing laws; I did some research last year for a paper I wrote in my class and found several articles about it. Try this link for an article abstract:

Florida's efforts to improve quality of nursing home care through nurse staffing standards, regulation, and Medicaid reimbursement. - PubMed - NCBI

VANurse2010 · Dec 20, 2015

Actually Florida does have LTC staffing laws; I did some research last year for a paper I wrote in my class and found several articles about it. Try this link for an article abstract:
Florida's efforts to improve quality of nursing home care through nurse staffing standards, regulation, and Medicaid reimbursement. - PubMed - NCBI

Every state has staffing laws in terms of hours of RN care, having an RN on duty, generally vague statements about staffing sufficient to care for residents etc. NO state has specific, enumerated ratios except California.