Pennsylvania Lawmakers Consider Nurse-Patient Ratio Legislation

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I am moving to Erie by fall this year, and am wondering what the staffing ratio is in med-surg, tele and ICU.

Erie area numbers are perfect, but I am curious about any ratios in PA.

Thanks!

kathy

Specializes in Float Pool, Hemo Dialysis.

ohperry78 is soooo right. Worked there for a long time. The cna that she is talking about is usually the only one for the whole floor. On day shift for a tele floor the ration is 5/1. It is a very busy floor with numerous new admissions, transfers, and discharges. The tele floor is also very lucky to have a tele tech there at all times monitoring the heart monitors.

I'm glad that ohperry's experience was good at St. V's, but you could never pay me to work there again.

The logo "we know how to treat people" is only for the pts. Sometimes you need to take care of your staff too, and they don't know how to do that.

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Our facility changed our RN/pt ratios a few months ago. It's been painful. I usually have 8 pts @ night, and our floor has maybe 1 CNA. Rarely do we have 2; it's usually 1 but then she's pulled to sit or go to another floor. I work on a telemetry floor that has post op CABG's, and also post op CVT patients. Since I work 7p-7a, I almost always get admissions because the charge nurse is reluctant to give the first one to the floor to an 8 hr staffer. It's rough.

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Specializes in Er, Trauma, ICU, PACU IR.

I work in the pocono area and on tele our ratio is 4:1 on 7p to 7a...most nights we have no aide though and it can get rough

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