How big (or small) is your unit?

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Just curious about the average unit size. I work in a small 8 chair unit on an Indian Reservation, with 15 Hemo and 12 PD patients. We run 2 shifts of regular pts and a third shift with seasonal transient pts. What is the size of your unit?

Just curious about the average unit size. I work in a small 8 chair unit on an Indian Reservation, with 15 Hemo and 12 PD patients. We run 2 shifts of regular pts and a third shift with seasonal transient pts. What is the size of your unit?

Im from the acute side of life, but we have one 4 bed unit and 7 hospitals. we mostly do bedside treatments

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I'm an APN in a nephrology practice. I work in two chronic HDUs: one is 15 chairs, the other is 32. Both run three shifts on M-W-F and two shifts on T-Th-S.

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We currently have 21 chairs and run from 5 am until the last patient is taken off, around 9:30-10 pm. First RN comes in at 4:30 am, second one comes in at 6 am, and then the swing shift RNs come in at noon and 2 pm. We divide the room in half for the RNs so we have 11 or 12 patients each. The PCTs pair up and divide the room in thirds so each pair of PCTs have seven patients. We also have a PD side. We're locally owned and have a smaller sister unit down the road that's about half the size of the main HD facility. We serve a mixed city and rural population. Some of our HD patients come in from a 75-mile radius and the PD patients are sometimes twice as far or more. It's a nice place to work, like family. We'll soon be moving to a new, updated building with more chairs. No doubt they'll be filled as soon as we can find more nurses (a tough job) and PCTs.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

"How big (or small) is your unit?"

*** My first thought when I saw the subject line was

"That's a pretty personal questions isn't it?"

:)

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