I am from NY hence the terrible ratios. The other nurses try to cover for you if they can when you have a code or critical come in. I'm sure our management would love us to have higher ratios but we...
Our patient population is very very diverse, many immigrants, some people get off the plane and come right to our hospital. Our population has for the most part very low health literacy and little to...
We have 8:1 (or 9 or 10) ratios. Sometimes if you get a code or vented patient the float nurse will take over care for a bit. If your lucky your ratio goes down when you have a
It looks like my ER is a little different so I'll give you a run down of how it works here we have a nurse up front next to registration who gets the chief complaint while registration is putting the...