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Within the last year, we restructured our Med-Surg nurse patient ratio to be 1:6 for days/eves, and 1:8 for nights. I am interested in hearing what other ratios in Med-Surg are. I work in a 400 bed city hospital, and the Med-Surg units are a mix of...

I feel like I was adequately prepared when I graduated from nursing school. I am a diploma graduate - 20 years ago we did stay in the dorm, eat in the hospital cafeteria, etc. We did do nursing care like the "real" nurses did then. We were "team l...