Nurse-Patient Ratio

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Something I haven't really seen on these boards...

Everyone who is an active duty military nurse, what is your typical nurse to patient ratio? Where are you stationed? What department do you work in?

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Specializes in L&D, mother/baby, antepartum.
Something I haven't really seen on these boards...

Everyone who is an active duty military nurse, what is your typical nurse to patient ratio? Where are you stationed? What department do you work in?

I'm in OB and we follow AWHONN and ACOG standards of practice. Depends on the acuity, stage of labor, etc. In general, labor pts are 1:2 and couplets 1:4. Sometimes if we are busy the load may be a little bit more. I find my pt load it comparable if not less than it was when I was a civilian RN.

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Specializes in critical care: trauma/oncology/burns.

Work in criical care. Usually nurse:patient is 1:2 unless the patient is a fresh heart (open heart on the balloon pump) or suicide precautions, then it is 1:1

If a patient is in the ICU but not considered critically ill then it could be 1:4 (meaning all four patients are what is called 4I: vitals q2h etc)

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