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What is your nurse patient ratio? With or without techs?

Specializes in ICU, med/surg, school nursing.

5:1 without techs, nights.

Most nights its only 4:1.

However I could have an LVN and work in a team, have about 8 patients total (4 primary care, and 4 more with my LVN providing primary care for the other 4).

Specializes in Med-Surg, Stroke Unit, Pulmonary.

6:1 with a tech most of the time, but lately they have been floating the PCT so the RN is responsible for one patient (doing all the care plus meds, fingersticks, etc.) We usually try to make sure the pt is a walkie-talkie

Specializes in Med/Surg, DSU, Ortho, Onc, Psych.

We don't have techs in Australia. The nurses do everything, though a ward helper does tea/coffee etc. I can have 6 or more patients. In team work with 2 nurses, anywhere from 10-15 patients or more, though they are usually all high care and heavy-going patients, especially in orthopaedics.

Specializes in Med/Surg.

7:1 with or without a tech.

6:1...1 tech for 18 patients, which is basically no tech.

Specializes in MED/SURG STROKE UNIT, LTC SUPER., IMU.

5-7/1 with a tech on days. It's rough when you have a lot of total care patients, but when most are walky-talky it works well.

Specializes in Ortho trauma.

what is a tech?

4-5:1 on days; 5-6:1 on nights. We usually have 3 techs on days (about 12 pts/ tech) and 3 on nights. Right now, we're short on techs, so some days we haven't gotten much help from them, but at the same time, 2 are currently orienting, so when they're on, we get 2 techs in one, so the extra hands are nice.

6:1 with an aide working with each nurse. Still crazy busy, though!!

Specializes in Correctional Nursing, Orthopediacs.
what is a tech?

We have no techs luckily lots of our pts. are self care. We do have an MA to help out on nights.

Specializes in Med-Surg.

5:1 on days but usually only one tech for 3-4 nurses.

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