What is your usual nurse-patient ratio in your unit? - page 3

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   Jan 3, '07

   Occupation: RN Specialty: Cardiology ; Joined: Jun '04; Posts: 515; Likes: 53

   I work at a Level I Trauma center in the cardiac PCU. 4 patient load, day and night shift. I absolutely love it here because my nurse mgr will close beds rather than increase the assignment.
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   Jan 3, '07

   Occupation: Med-Surg RN Specialty: 2 year(s) of experience ; Joined: Jun '03; Posts: 125; Likes: 4

   Quote from crb613

   I hear ya!!! I thought we worked in the same place until I saw you were from Ga!

   
   Ditto...........Upstate NY here
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   Jan 3, '07

   Joined: Aug '06; Posts: 287; Likes: 51

   I'm from Indiana and I work on a cardiovascular thoracic recovery unit in a teaching hospital. The open hearts are usually 1:1 until extubated. Typical assignment is 2:1 but that depends on acuity (CVVHD, IABP, VAD, etc.)

   Last edit by incublissRN on Jan 3, '07
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   Jan 3, '07

   Occupation: Medical floor RN Joined: Dec '04; Posts: 23

   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.
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   Jan 25, '07

   Joined: Nov '06; Posts: 48; Likes: 1

   Thanks a lot for sharing those informations.

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