Nurse - Patient ratios in your hospital?

[MiaLyse, APRN]

Days vs evenings? Tele? Oncology? Rehab? Med-Surg? tia for any info

[Advocate1]

Days, Tele mostly-- but we get a bit of it all at times-- our ratio is 5:1, a few times I had 6

[CathyLew]

our MSP floor can hold 23 patients. Nights we do it with 2 RN, 1 LPN and an aid only untill 10pm. (apparently no one puts on a call bell after 10pm....) So your RN is responsible for 11 or 12 patients for orders, assesements, IV meds. Our LPN's can pass po meds, do VS, care. but do not do assessments, Admits, Discharges or IV medications.

Days for same floor we have 2 RN, 2 LPN and 2 Aids, till 2pm, then just one Aid. The two LPN's split the floor for VS and PO meds. The RN's do the discharges, assess, admits, IV meds, Dr orders, and if there is a minute left, patient teaching.

[Virgo_RN, BSN, RN]

Evening, cardiac tele, four to one. We have CNAs, ward clerk, and monitor tech.

[silentRN]

Tele unit. 28 bed. nurse/patient ratio 4:1, PCT x3 + 1 tele monitor tech

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

i work midnights, medsurg, and it's 5:1.

*~jess~*

[NurseKatie08, MSN]

3-11pm in Subacute rehab, our ratio is 8-9:1 with 3-4 nurse techs. The floor can hold 26, and its divided into one 8 bed team, and two nine bed teams.

[Ayvah, RN]

Days med-surg

5 or 6 patients. With discharges and admits we may have up to 8 patients a day.

Techs are 1:8-10

[Vlondon]

The hospital I work at on the Med/surg floor, can hold up to 49pts, all private rooms, The nurse ratio is about 1:3-6 on days, and night nurse ratios are about 1:5-6

I'm a tech on days and our ratios are 1:4-6...but I've had up to 9pts if someone calls in but they'll usually send up other techs from different units to help with beds and baths and call lights! So it's never horrible... And pm techs are 1:5-7 , and night techs are 1:5-9pts...

LPNS on days usually split the patients and we usually have 2-3 working on

days... And 2 lpns working on pms... :)

[diane227, LPN, RN]

That is an unacceptable staffing ratio for a tele unit. I work med surg and our ratio is 5:1.

[Riseupandnurse]

Med-surg, days four to one; evenings 5 to one; nights 6 to one. 2 NAs on days and evenings, one on nights. Ward clerks. The problem is you might have four patients on an A, but by the end of the shift they are completely different patients.

[cjcsoon2bnp, MSN, RN, NP]

I work evenings on a vascular med/surg. unit where the nurse to patient ratio is 1:5 (although lately they're trying to make it 1:6) and the CNA to patient ratio is 1:7-10 (the ratios are pretty much the same for both days and evenings) and on nights the ratio of nurse to patient is 1:10-12 and the CNA to patient ratio is 1:14-16.