How many other nurses do you work with?

Crux1024 · Jul 9, 2011

I work with usually 3 other nurses and myself (4 nurses total) and an aide over night for 20 pts on a telemetry floor.But this really depends on the floor and how sick your patients are; sometimes nurses are called off if we dont have alot of patients. I have never worked alone before.

NurseKatie08, MSN · Jul 9, 2011

I work with two other nurses and four CNAs on a 26 bed rehab unit 3pm-11pm. Days is the same staffing, nights is one nurse and 2 aides.

swimincatz · Jul 9, 2011

I work nights but day shift is usually staffed the same, 30 tele beds get 5 nurses and 2 CNAs sometimes 3 during the day. Sometimes day shift gets an additional free charge nurse.

jesswus · Jul 9, 2011

20 beds 12 RNs or more in SICU

Mommy&RN, BSN, RN · Jul 9, 2011

34 bed surgical floor. when full, we usually have 6 RNs, 3 techs, and a unit clerk. The lowest we go is 2RNs, but if census is that low, there is usually a floor closed and the staff share the hours/pts. (Usually around Christmas/New Years)

JeneraterRN · Jul 9, 2011

We are a 23 bed hospital and staffing changes with the types of patients we have. PP OB is 3-1 Pt to nurse, laboring is 1-1. Med/surg and swingbed ratios vary because they are often mixed together. We generally have 4 floor nurses, two aides, and the ER nurse as supervisor on days and three floor nurses, one aide, and the ER supervisor at night.

breaktime · Jul 9, 2011

I work in a PICU, so a lot of it depends on how many of our patients are 1:1. Lately we've even had a few that are 2 RNs to 1 pt (amazing that an assignment like that can still manage to kick your butt). We have 16 beds and if full we would likely have 20-22 nurses as some of those beds would be singled. We also always have a charge nurse (and of course we have an HUC and an NA) and when busy, whether that be due to pt load or acuity, we will have a clinical lead as well. Usually, we are adequately staffed.

On my unit, the biggest difference between days and night as far as staffing is that the attending MDs are not around, and the fellow usually sleeps for at least a few hours, so we rely on the residents more. So basically there is just a little less support on nights, but thus far I've never been in a situation where I didn't feel I had enough support.

Good luck in school OP!

umcRN, BSN, RN · Jul 9, 2011

60 Bed NICU anywhere from 25-34 nurses depending on census and acuity

14 Bed CICU (peds) 8-16 nurses again depending on census and acuity

fuzzygirl · Jul 9, 2011

In LTC, you may have 25 residents on day/evening shift and 2 CNAs to help you. I've worked in "assisted living" facilities that gave me the entire house on night shift (with CNAs of course). At the hospital where I occasionally work through an agency, the average is 8 patients on night shift in med/surg. I am an LPN who started at the hospital the first few years with up to 12 patients on evening/night shift. It depends entirely where you work.

netglow, ASN, RN · Jul 9, 2011

Just to be clear for the Op, in case he for some reason does not know. As an RN you will have YOUR patient assignment. These are your responsibility and your responsibility only. You may have help. That help in a tech/cna, who is extremely limited as in the type of help they can provide you. Usually that help is bathing, toileting, feeding related. It also includes taking vitals, and maybe a bit more. You will not be paired with another RN to do things together. If you are lucky, you may have nurses who might help you in a bind and you them if you get over your head, but they have their patient assignments to deal with, so that help is gonna be quick and short term when it happens. Nursing is in some ways like being self-employed. It's not a group-type work situation.

melmarie23, MSN, RN · Jul 9, 2011

days? usually 3 (another RN and the charge) sometimes 4 (2 other RNs and a charge) and two LNAs. Nights its usually one other RN and an LNA.