how much RNS in total would be employed in nursing homes?

mirandaaa · Jul 9, 2015

There are a lot of different factors to take into consideration here, so it can depend. The last place I worked at we had 28 beds on my hall and there was only one nurse for night shift and one nurse for day shift.

CT Pixie, BSN, RN · Jul 9, 2015

I worked LTC on evenings and there was only 1 RN in house as well as 1 RN in house for night. The RN on evenings was the house nursing supervisor, the RN on nights was also the house nuring supervisor as well as taking a full assisngment. This facility had 120 pts. So in that case there was 1 RN with 120 pts.

LPNs were on the nurses on the floor for days, evenings and night. My floor had 2 'wings' each wing had 32 patients or so with a full unit. Each wing had 1 nurse (LPN or RN) and multiple CNAs (the number depended on the shift)

The day shift had multiple RNs (the DON/ADON, one on each floor working as the nursing supervisor for that floor, as well as the infection control nurse).

NOADLS · Jul 9, 2015

How much Rns in total would be employed in a 35 bedded nursing home?

Assuming the resident population isn't anything "out of the norm," I would be willing to bet that you would have 1 RN per shift, the DON and 1 other RN in a management position (ADON or similar title).

I would like to think that the RN will have a LPN working underneath them on all shifts except nights.

NursesRmofun, ASN, RN · Jul 9, 2015

Sometimes very few. In some communities, you might have as few as 1-2-3 RN's in total. A bigger NH in a larger community might have more. It depends.

Altra, BSN, RN · Jul 9, 2015

You can google search "nursing home staffing" for the staffing requirements in your state.

jojo489 · Jul 10, 2015

All our supervisors were RNs but we actually had a few RNs that worked the floor. They were trying to push LPNs off one of the units.

We had about 180 beds.

wanderlustnurse88, RN · Jul 10, 2015

62 beds. 1 RN on at all times. 1 RPN on 07-23. We have 3 full time RNs and 2 part time RNs (although we should have 4). We actually have 8 casual RNs as well but they all work somewhere else so pick up very little or are partly retired so don't pick up much.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Jul 10, 2015

When I was a new LVN in 2006, I worked at a 60 bed facility that had RN coverage only 8 hours per day: the DON was the only RN Monday through Friday, and the weekend supervisor provided RN coverage on weekends.

The LVNs rendered all nursing care.