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And it's not done fairly. I am moving every single week where as some are having 2 or 3 weeks off where they aren't being moved

We used to have 13 beds. Bearing in mind we are having 30 patients some days, so still the same number of patients but taken beds off us. How does this mean it's laughable that it's 3 nurses for 8 beds? That's up to 30 admissions, 30 patients coming back from Theatre or patients who have had biopsies that need close observation? We also have 2 chairs for local anaesthetics. It isn't as easy as you make it sound! And some days seems very unsafe when your ward sister is counted in the numbers and isn't there when off to meetings and leaving 2 staff nurses to man the unit

I was after some opinions I work on a day surgery unit. We opened 2 years ago and we were staffed well and had a nice little team. 3 nurses went off on maternity leave last year. Since then we are only allowed 3 staff nurses on each shift. Because these nurses have come back, there is always 'too many on' so almost every day someone is being moved to a different ward. So it works out I'm being moved nearly every week. some days we have 27+ patients for only 8 beds, some days we have less. It varies. I feel anxious being moved to different specialities and it's getting me down. I'm always anxious and worried coming into work in fear of being moved. Is this normal for this to happen? To suddenly decide we don't need more staff and have to be moved to a different area every single week?