how many patients do you have

ashleyjean3 · Sep 21, 2006

I work in a post surgical unit at the hospital on sat and sunday 7a-7p. Most weekends i have the floor to myself which is 36 patients, on a good weekend they will have 2 techs so I only have 18 patients. Not to mention 6 of these beds are SICU beds, 4 are burns, and 5 are ortho~ all of which are total care patients

CNAinPA · Sep 29, 2006

I work as a CNA/Tech Partner in a hospital on 3rd shift. On any given night I have anywhere form 8-16 patients. Depends on how many nurses and Techs we have working each night. We alwyas have 4, and sometimes5 nurses and 3-4 techs, sometimes the number of techs drops to 2.

FaithHope&Love · Oct 6, 2006

I'm a CNA in LTC and when I work alzheimer's/dementia or the skilled floor I have 12 residents. When I work personal care I have about 22 residents, but several of them do most everything for themselves. I generally go back and help the cna's on the skilled units.

One Flew Over · Oct 10, 2006

My assignment has 7; we're usually missing at least one aide, so it can be 8 or 9. Not bad at all

kmarie724 · Oct 10, 2006

When we're fully staffed (which is almost never), I have 8 residents to put to bed. I have 10 when we're short. On day shift, I have 6-8 to get up and ready, depending on how many residents the overnight aides get up and if we are short or not. I couldn't imagine doing more than 10.

Noahm · Oct 10, 2006

21-30 patients on an Acute medical ward. We usually have one RN and one aide. Sometimes we get 2 RN's and an HCA. Mostly we just get screamed at by relatives because we can't be ten places at once.

luvmy2angels · Oct 10, 2006

I am fortunate enough to work in a wonderful LTC facility that just opened "households". Each household has 16 residents. We have 1 LPN (myself) and I have 2 CNAs. Even though they only have 8 residents they are mostly alert and oriented and require a lot of attention. I worked as a CNA for 18 years before going to nursing school and most of the time we had 13-16 residents per aid. TOTALLY ridiculous as far as I am concerned. I always try and help out my aides when I get my work done. I know how hard being a CNA is!!

HopeM · Oct 11, 2006

I am working in a hospital on a primary care unit right now. Fully staffed there are 4 RNs and 2 Techs (CNA or Nurse Techs) to 18 patients, but generally there is only one Tech per shift. When we are fully staffed we are busy and moving the entire shift (8 or 12 depending on what you work) and when you are the only one on the floor you get 12 hours of vigorous exercise. Either way... looking at amputating my legs below the ankles before too long LOL!

TBird81 · Oct 19, 2006

WOW everyone! I feel REALLY lucky! I work at a physical rehab hospital and the MOST patients I have had is 7 and the least is 3. Yep I typed THREE! Now when I worked LTC or on a reg. med/surg floor at a hospital I easily had 15-20. In peds I had anywhere from 9-12. They never tried to give you more then 12. But even 12 is a lot when you consider that they are all in different rooms with 95% of them without parents & if I had infants I was in trouble. Holding an infant hardly was worked into a shift & letting them just cry and cry pulled at my heart strings. Exactly why I left peds....

I think I'll stick to rehab.

bethin · Oct 19, 2006

I work med/surg in a hospital and I usually have 6 pts but have had 13 pts, once I even had 26. Med/Surg is different than working LTC (at least from my experience). Hospitals you have to prep pts for surgery, get vitals every 4 hours, do blood sugars, and every bed gets changed every day no matter what. Plus, there is alot more call lights going off. Alot.

LTC is hard. When I worked there I think I had 16 pts and it was stressful, very stressful. I truly respect those who can work in LTC. It is the hardest, back breaking work. You have to truly love working with the elderly.

25(2)+2 · Oct 19, 2006

we have 2 aides per wing in the long term facility where i work. there are 3 wings in this building and 2 nurses. i work 3rd shift. each wing contains about 35 residents. we are responsible to get 8 residents up each morning and responsible for 2 of those peoples showers each week. aside from taking care of the residents we have cleaning chores each noc mon-bedpans washbasin commodes tues combs brushes and razors wed&thur wheelchairs fri clean dirty and clean utility rooms sat stock rooms with gloves wipes lotions toothpaste soap and list who needs depends sun clean kitchenette There are mornings when we know dayshift is going to be short and the residents won't get their showers so i will shower any of the ppl on our get up list who are suppose to get a shower that day. I think it is not right when the residents can't have showers because of short staffing, after all they only get 2 showers a week.

shadchan · Oct 30, 2006

I work day shift and usually have 8-10 patients (less if I am EXTREMELY lucky, but that's not often). However it feels like more, because we are a rehab unit with some LTC/total care patients and we do total linen changes every day, work to get patients up around the therapists' schedules (which seems like a monumental task when everyone needs to go to the toilet at the same time and you have a therapist waiting for you to give one pt care), etc...

I envy those who work in facilities where the night shift helps out with showers and such. Oh, man. That would help SO much.