maggimay

Just thought I'd let you know I've got the weekend off and i'm loving every minute of it! The reason- probably because my colleague had all of the weekends in Feb off while I worked! But I didn't have to put up with the chaos you have probably had this morning. Hope you survived! I am off to get ready to party now :balloons:

Reading about the patient nurse ratios posted here I feel very lucky. I work on a 10 bedded neuro rehab unit. We have our own physios, OT, part-time Psychology and speech therapist. From a nursing point of view we normally work with 6 staff in the morning 2 or 3 of those being qualified nurses and the remainder Support workers. Even with this amount of staff at times we are very busy. It really depends on the dependancy of the patients at the time. One of the best things I like about my area of work, apart from the fact it is very rewarding, is that you have the time to give patients and their families the time they deserve and so can give high standards of care all of the time. After all that is why most of us came into nursing in the first place.

You on soap box!! If you are it better be bigger enough for two!!