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Since im new to this forum, sorry i have not looked at all the postings yet. I'm curious to know how many HD patients an acute setting will recieve in one day? or for a different take on things, how many patients in the alotted time do RN's or techs have to dialysis one patient and how many patients do hey take on in one day? The reason i ask this is because i don't believe my facility giving us the right ratio of patients per RN/tech per day that we work. for example a staff of five personnel (3 rn's and 2techs) will have a day consisting of 15 HD patients. 5 of them are isolation patients 1 to 1, and the rest can be placed in our own unit, 5 seats available at a time and ration can be 2 to 1. any thoughts on this?

I have a very unconventional schedule. Acute inpatient dialysis in chicago. The schedule is setup for 4 days a week (two 12 hour shift and two 8 hour shift). oncall sunday once a month, and oncall throughout the work week when scheduled a 12 hour shift dispersed throughout the month as well. We always get our 40 hours in, most of the time even more because we always go over our 8 hour shift along with the oncall hours that occur. There are many variables also to the reason why we have so many hours. We lack staffing, only 4 full time RN's and 2 full time techs for the entire hospital. Our patient load is ridiculous for an inpatient acute setting. We have 7 machines in one location, and 3 at our other facility (I forgot to mention we also cover our sister hospital which is and intermediate care facility). There are more detailed reasons that if you like i can elaborate on, but that will suffice for now. thanks!