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With recent budget cuts we are going to an acuity based staffing matrix. Rather than having the straight 2 patients to 1 nurse ratio we are being asked to take 3-4 ICU patients. I work at a small ICU at a community hospital, and I will admit some of ...

I completely agree with all of the above statements. Our hospital is very "lets do what everyone else is doing". It's nice to see others think this is an awful idea and not everyone is doing it this way. I hate it. Not only do we have normal ICU stuf...

Background: I have been a RN for two years. Six months of that was spent in psych (not a huge interest per say, just really needed a nursing job out of school). For the past year and a half I have worked in a 12 bed ICU. I have 2 sons ages 2 and 6 mo...