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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 first shifts alone. Many nurses have tried to requ...

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 said, our manager and nursing supervisors blow of...

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 hours after OR). If we have beds available, we can...