Patient to Nurse Ratios: What are yours?

[rkitty198]

I am curious about what your patient ratio is.....

State the following:

State

City

Unit worked

Patient load

Shift

I will start:

Texas

El Paso

Med Surge

7-8 patients

day shift

Texas

El Paso

Telemetry

6 patients

day shift

Washington

Edmonds

Surgical/Oncology

5-6 patients

day shift

[delete]

CNA at LTC

last shift-24 to 1

shift before last-40 to 1

[ok2bme]

Houston Texas

Psych

6/7:1

Days 7a-3p

[janette87]

I'm interested to see responses from nurses outside the USA in this query...

BC Canada here

urology/ortho/neuro-surgery: RN and PN together have 10 or so patients on days, about 13 on nights

and when i was in ER, assuming it was full (almost always) I'd have 5 dedicated beds to myself and maybe a hallway patient or two

[keba]

15-20:1 for the least 12:1:banghead:

[chillchick]

3-4/1

(Some of you guys are blowing my mind!)

[Dirk]

Country Switzerland

City Zurich

Unit worked ICU

Patient load 1,5:1

Shift

[Nursebarebari]

3-4/1

(Some of you guys are blowing my mind!)

5:1 in icu?

[Nursebarebari]

Country Switzerland

City Zurich

Unit worked ICU

Patient load 1,5:1

Shift

5:1 in ICU?

[Hushdawg]

5:1 in ICU?

She stated 1,5:1

To clarify, many other parts of the world use commas where Americans use decimal points.

So she meant 1.5:1

Feel better about it now? :)

I used to do double takes all the time until I got used to the different enumeration style.

[Dirk]

Not 5:1 - only 1.5:1

Means - 14 bed ICU

morning shift : 10 nurses

late shift : 9 nurses

night shift : 8 nurses

BUT in Germany the ratio is very often 4:1 on ICU`s

[Nursebarebari]

She stated 1,5:1

To clarify, many other parts of the world use commas where Americans use decimal points.

So she meant 1.5:1

Feel better about it now? :)

I used to do double takes all the time until I got used to the different enumeration style.

Thanks for the explanation.