lag413

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1. Is this fair to ask of a new RN?

   lag413 replied to squatmunkie_RN's topic in First Year After Licensure

   I work on a similar floor - and you're lucky they're only giving you four. On our floor, once nurses are off orientation, they are treated the same as everyone else and can have 6 or 7 patients their...

2. Question about staff ratios?

   lag413 replied to lag413's topic in General Nursing

   Wow thanks for all the replies. I have worked here for a little over a year and was shocked to see that our ratios are the same as when I was on med-surg, and our patients SO much more acute. But as I...

3. Question about staff ratios?

   lag413 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work on a telemetry unit primarily dedicated to post-op cardiothoracic surgery patients (hearts can come out to the floor as soon as POD #1, and lungs get recovered and then come to the floor a few...