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What are the patient:nurse ratios ( on your acute rehab floor in a hospital setting? For days it's usually 5:1, or 4:1 if one of the patients is a burn. Nights it's 6-7:1. What is the ratio for patient:CNA? 10-15 patients per tech both days and nights. Only responsible for assisting with ADL's and vitals Do you have a free charge nurse? what does he/she do? During the week we have a clinical liaison(basically an assistant manager) from 8-4 that coordinates admissions and helps with things like discharges or hard IV sticks. We then have a charge nurse every shift who takes less patients, 3-4:1 and does the same things the liaison does but during evenings, nights, and weekends. How often do your patients get showered? Everyday if they accept. OT rotates doing ADL's with patients so it's typically half the floor is nursing and the other OT. Do you track I&O's on all patients? Yup. Dietary passes and picks up trays in our facility and records meals on a flow sheet. Then there are the special strict I&O's and such. Is your charting computerized? Everything is electronic. Just recently went to computerized physician order entry so even MD orders are electronic now. Do all nurses complete the entire FIM on each shift? Nurses are only responsible for the following FIMs: eating, toileting, toilet transfers, bowel and bladder, and the cognitive domains. On a scale from 1-10, how busy/stressed do you feel on a daily basis? I would rate it 5-6 during the week because it's just so busy. Patients and staff running every where. The weekends are much calmer and laid back so about 4 at the worst. Occasionally it could be higher if staffing groups all the people with poor teamwork skills on the same day. How do the CNAs/Nurses get along on your floor? Techs and nurse get along surprisingly well. Nurses share the call light load. Of course you have the few nurses that depend a little too much on their tech.

Hello All, I'm a recent GN and my passion for nursing rests in the OR. I do know I want an internship since the three paragraphs back in 101 did nothing to prepare a student for the OR. I'm a able to go where ever I need to get what I want which is why I've turned to you good people. I'm here to find out what experiences you all have had with your internship. Where and how long was your internship? Would you recommend that facility? How would you describe your first day? How does it compare to where you are now? I apprecaite any response and feel free to elaborate as you see fit.