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working in a 120 bed skilled nursing/ltc facility, 11-7 shift with 2 lpns, shift supervisor (either lpn or rn depending upon availability) and 5 cnas (6 if you're lucky!) how does this staffing ratio compare to others??

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Specializes in Developmentally Disabled, LTC, Clinic, Hospital.

It sounds like we work in the same place, except you have more aides! I worked 3 nites last week with 3 nurses and 3 aides to 122 residents. :banghead:

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working in a 120 bed skilled nursing/ltc facility, 11-7 shift with 2 lpns, shift supervisor (either lpn or rn depending upon availability) and 5 cnas (6 if you're lucky!) how does this staffing ratio compare to others??

i think that your staffing ratio is on par with the average ltc night shift - in my humbling experience. that means it is consistently busy enough to keep everyone awake and if a change in resident status occurs, the roof won't collapse. so to speak. i have also learned that numbers of bodies can mean so many different things. as in how responsible and reliable and professional (to name a few)are the people you work with? how well do you all work together as a team? is your work about following up on some more than others or tracking one or more members of your team to make sure everyone is in the same game? quality vs quantity makes all the difference in the world. so does youth and vitality. and really great coffee...

:zzzzz

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I am (kinda) new to LTC, others in my facility complain, I just wondered how our staffing compared. And a big Thank you for this advice, nice way of putting it. I think I will share this with my co-workers.

Quality vs quantity makes all the difference in the world. So does youth and vitality. And really great coffee...

:zzzzz

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Wow, I am so lucky. Tonight there were two nurses, one an RN and another and LPN, 3 cena's because one called off, and we have 30 residents. It is like that for all three shifts, although sometimes we have only one RN on 11-7 but always at least 3 cena's

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Specializes in LTC/SNF, Psychiatric, Pharmaceutical.
working in a 120 bed skilled nursing/ltc facility, 11-7 shift with 2 lpns, shift supervisor (either lpn or rn depending upon availability) and 5 cnas (6 if you're lucky!) how does this staffing ratio compare to others??

probably about par for the course. i worked in 90-bed facilities and generally got 3 cnas, plus either a second nurse or a cma. things would improve ratio-wise when there had been some aides hired, but once they quit, it was back to bare bones.

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Specializes in LTC, med/surg, hospice.

I worked in an 88 bed facility and we had 2 nurses (both LPN or 1 LPN/1 RN) on 11-7 and 5 CNAs.

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Specializes in LTC/SNF, Psychiatric, Pharmaceutical.
I worked in an 88 bed facility and we had 2 nurses (both LPN or 1 LPN/1 RN) on 11-7 and 5 CNAs.

Most nights, I would have KILLED for coverage like that. And when you consider that's probably only adequate coverage, that's sad.

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Specializes in LTC.

On third at my place it's 2 lpns and 3 aides if noone calls in for 80 residents most of which are skilled

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