I work at a very small, very rural hospital. We barely qualify to be a level IV trauma center, we're that small. We have about 30 beds and have 3 regular, intermediate/swing bed patients on site besides your usual load of acute, swing bed-skilled and outpatient/obs patients. We probably average around 6 to 7 patients a week, including our intermediate patients.
I work first shift and there are usually three of us on the schedule as CNAs. Second shift has 2 and night shift has one. There are usually 3 nurses working until 11 p when it goes to just 2 with one extra on call.
As CNAs, we're assigned usually 2 to 3 patients if we have three CNAs scheduled, more if there are only two of us scheduled.
I'm curious to know what the case loads are like in other places. There are days that just 3 patients keep me hopping compared to the 7 to 10 residents I would be assigned to when working in LTC.
