GI Staffing Ratios?

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I'm looking for any articles/references (and even just your experiences) regarding staffing in the GI unit. We are a high volume unit. We do 18 different GI procedures plus 4 different bronch lab procedures. We do 500-700 procedures a month. So my questions are these:

*How many nurses per doc is considered the national standard/requirement/recommendation?

*How many nurses per patient in the recovery room?

*How many nurses are admitting (per doc)?

*Are admit nurses part of the nurse per doc ratio?

Bonus points for any scholarly journals that recommend certain ratios! Thank you!!

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I couldn't find scholarly journal references. Or what I found did not want to give specific ratios.

My experiences sounds really different from you description/questions. I've worked two different out patient surgery clinics which also did GI procedures. We nurses worked for the hospital/clinic not for the docs?

I've never heard of staffing ratios in admitting? If it's busy we have more staff scheduled, we have a lot of per diem nurses to call in.

I can't find anything very scholarly for phase II, GI patients recovery. We use LVN'S after the RN has admitted the GI patients, as long as a RN is in the room I don't know how many patients the LVN's can have per standards?

I assume you are unhappy with your ratios? Feel you need, are required by standards, to have more staff?

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