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Dear fellow nurses!
If it is ok with you, please specify the hospital and its location and the usual nurse-patient ratio in your unit where you are presently working. This may serve as an information for every nurses for whatever purpose this may help everyone.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the med/surg floors we have up to 6 on days and pms, then up to eight or nine (rare, but possible) on nights. In the ER we have 12 rooms and typically 2 RNS, a tech, and a triage nurse if it's really busy. ICU will have 1 or 2 ICU patients, or up to four telemetry beds; they can mix and match ICU and tele, but if they have a high acuity pt., they can over-ride for more staff. OB has thier own staffing grid based on labors and mom-baby. I still need the grid to figure out it out. I work at a small rural hospital in Wisconsin.
nrsang97, BSN, RN
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I also work in a large teaching hospital in MI. I currently work Neuro ICU where I have just finished my orinetation. We have 1-2 patients depending on acuity. Max is 3 and I haven't seen anyone with 3 patients since starting there. We are usually well staffed and able to be 1:1 as needed.
When I worked in med surg at a smaller community hospital (same system I work in now.) I would have 6-7 patients on the 3-11p shift. Some days six was totally manageable and some days not. Depending on unit acuity. Days also had 6-7, and MN had 8-10. No monitors on this unit.
At my first position (teaching hospital also different system.), we had 10-11 pts on 7p-7a shift. We had 1 aide for 32 pts. Nurse did all VS except for temps. All accuchecks also. I could have 6/11 patients on monitors. Assiginments were very heavy and I always felt like I was drowning. We had 6-8 on the 7a-7p shift.