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USA Anywhere up to 6 on medical/onco. 4 to 5 is usual. Granted, we also don't always have a tech. I've had 5 to myself before.

I work a fulltime job and a prn job at two different hospitals in med/onco. At both places, it is typically a 4 to 6 ratio with 4 being more typical. On one of my floors, chemo is hung frequently, patients go to PET scans, and patients often go to ra...

Sepsis is definitely a word used a lot more frequently where I work. But it's mainly related to the MEWs vitals that we do. If someone's vitals are off to a certain extent, we fill out a sepsis screening tool and take vitals every 2 hours and the nur...

Is it bad that I have worn one for almost 3 years and don't know the name of it?! I am trying to figure it out. For ius, it has one color on when a nurse is in the room and another for the hcts. It flashes the colors outside the door when someone hit...

I feel like the Modified early Warning Score is a very helpful tool. We have to get our own shift vitals where I work and use it as part of our assessments. It is calculated using MEWs. This intervention has assisted me and others with catching that ...

Usually myself and a tech a bedside at time of admit. Sometimes, it's just me and transportation. Other nurses may come in if patient cannot walk and we have to slide patient over. Admit process takes around half an hour. Takes doctors sometimes up t...

That exercise just sounds awful. That is not how you treat your nurses. I can say though that I do know a few people who work at this hospital. They have all said actually how well staffed the units are (well the med-surg units anyways) and seem to...

Illinois hospital I work on a medical/oncology unit and we take 4 to 6 patients. We never take more than 6 patients at a time. It is the same for the cardiac, surgical, and rehab units. PCU can have up to 3 patients I believe. ICU is 1 or 2 patien...

I am very grateful for the unit secretaries I work with. The main ones I work with also were techs on the floor before moving to the desk so they also know the floor very well in all ways. They assist with making the assignment, faxing the assignment...

Depends on where you work. I don't have personal experience as a cna. But this is a typical day for ours in the daytime (I have had a few days where I tasked and was essentially the tech If we were short one -baths and linen changes in the mornings -...

In a little over 2 years of being a nurse, I have never done cpr. I have been part of a code, but was thrown into recording which was interesting for a first experience. I have never placed an ng tube either. We get them every so often, but I have ne...

I swear that sounds exactly like my floor. Usually we have 4 nurses and 1 or 2 techs for 18 patients (which is fully if we don't have the staff to double up rooms),but lately we have had 3:1:1. It is hard to get to everything done even for myself as ...

Oh and the ones we had would help with iv starts and nursing tasks too if they had time. It's a lot more about doing the charting than anything else, but you still get some skills.

We had an admission and discharge nurse for like 6 months and it was amazing. One day, I picked up an extra shift after they did away with it and did admits/dcs (we were very admit happy that day)for 5 hours and did like 12 admits in that time betwee...

I once made it home after working 12 hours, was sitting around talking to my roommates, and about four hours later I was getting ready for bed. It is 11:30 at night and something in me made me check my scrubs before putting them in the laundry. What ...

One day I was getting a patient back from PACU after a lithotripsy and when the nurse brought the patient up, she used an alcohol wipe under the nose. It was the first time I had seen it done. It seemed to really help that patient. I don't see why yo...

Call light first if not emergent. So many people will come up to the main nurse's station and ask questions about patients or how they are doing. If the primary nurse isn't there, the secretary or other staff will not always know the answers. those q...

Where I work (a hospital), there is to be 2 nurses on all floors at all times. Now our psych floor has to have two nurses or more but they both don't have to be psych nurses. I was floated there once to be the third nurse since they called for one by...

Basically, when we do all we are supposed to do, it can take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. We have huddles where we go over the floor and that can take 15 minutes to 20 when people use it as a full report. That is not what it is. After that, w...

I like working medical floors the most. I have floated to the cardiac floor, our psych floor (we tech basically if floated there), and the surgical floor, and I definitely prefer our med floors. Now on a weekday, I don't mind floating to inpatient re...

From my own experience, my manager asks me if I can do a peer interview and I have no notice. I also have my own group of patients and may even be charge that day. The first time I did one, I didn't know the questions so I had to look at the sheet a ...

I also have to add that I wish we could staff by acuity. It would make things so much better.

Our acuity has been very high too. The way we have to split the assignment each day is crazy. Every nurse pretty much has to walk the whole hallway as one end of the hallway has a very high acuity. That group has to be separated. There is honestly to...

Our ratio can go up to to 6 patients on day shift.Typically neither shift will go above 6, but there have been a few times where someone has gone up to 7 patients on nights. I work a med/onco floor in the Midwest. Usually, we will each have 4 to 5 p...