Hello all, I'm a new grad RN and I've been working as an RN at a SNF for a little over a month now. I find the nurse to patient ratios at my present place of employment unsafe. Lately because the census is "low", they have been calling off nurses a...
Tachycardic_RN replied to Tachycardic_RN's topic in General Nursing
@TheCommuter: "adequate staffing"... leaves everything up to interpretation and discretion, which I am coming to find that to one person the choice may be "reasonable" and to another is "ridiculous". Adequate and inept have the same meaning anyway.
Tachycardic_RN replied to Tachycardic_RN's topic in General Nursing
Thanks all for your responses. I just wanted some input. I figured it would be bad (staffing wise) as I worked as an aide for a year at a hospital...just didn't think it would be THIS bad. Three nurses covering 47 patients and left to do your own ...