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I work nights on a PCU, our ratio is typically 1:4 up to 1:6, it is actually pretty common to get 6 pts. Though I have to admit we are probably on the lower acuity level of PCU's, maybe this is a similar position to what you are being offered. We take some drips, cardizem, insulin, amio, lasix, bumex, integrilin, and occasionally NTG but thats about the extent of it. We get some fresh heart caths, pacers, chest tubes but really nothing too intense. But we also take some chest pain obs pt's too so we kind of get a mix of somewhat high acuity and some pretty independent patients. With 6 pts I feel like Im pretty maxed out, 7 pts doesn't seem safe, if one of the pts decide they want to take a turn for the worse on you now youre in a really bad spot.

Always safe to check it out first, im sure it varies. My experience, had my cartilage pierced all four years getting my BSN, and Ive worked as a floor nurse on a step down unit in a major hospital for about three years now and never once have i heard one person ask me to take it out, aside from a couple of patients who so nicely ask me if I know I have a piece of metal sticking out of my ear, and offer to take it out with a pliers. I think a lot of places should be fine with it if they allow the equivalent in a female but if you find out otherwise then its up to you to decide how much of a sacrifice it is to you.