Aleksandarcox

They are sicker and immobile, but job that you have to do with them is similar to those in Neurology. Change sheets, diapers, pajamas, prepare and give therapy, feed them, turn them in bed, etc. It is more stressful, but it is also physically much less demanding, because ICU department is much smaller and you have better nurse : patient ratio.

@MECO28 You are expected to always be somewhere around them.

This is how our hospitals look like

Well, it will be all clear to you if I say that that is one of the easiest departments for work. Compared to others where are immobile patients like Neurology, Traumatology, Oncology. In Traumatology ratio is 10:1 at day, and 15:1 at night. And all patients are immobile. I hope I made it clear. :) We simply are 300% efficient. You just run, run, and run... that's how we do it. It is very, very hard and when I get home I'm dead... I just go to bed and sleep. I'm in Neurology btw. If I was in ICU It would be much easier for me. Much smaller place, with more workers and less patients.

I know that's how it should be, but that's situation in my country.

ICU is one of the best departments to work in my surrounding. Ratio is 1:5-7.

So to be clear. Our ratio at day is 20:1 and at night 30:1. And we do everything. Change diapers, sheets, pajamas, wash patients, transfer patients, manually (by hand) transfer patients from one bed to another, which is very hard. We prepare and give I.V. I.M. per os therapy, and all other things from care to therapy. And we do all hard physical work too.

12/24;12/48. That's our schedule how we work. 12 hours day shift, 24 hours rest. Then 12 hours night shift, and after that 48 hours rest. But I do only day shifts, so I work 12 hours, and rest 36 hours. Which is very hard because on day we have incredible amount of job to do. We change diapers, sheets and pajamas on our patients that can't move 3-4 times a day. Well in my country nurse unemployment is very high. In our hospitals almost 50% are non-medical staff. And nobody cares. You simply have to run all day and do job that 3 nurses should do. If you won't, they'll simply find another one to do it and fire you. In Neurology at day shift we have 4-6 doctors and 3 nurses. And it si unbearable.

I know how you feel. Believe me. I work in Neurology. 3 of us work on 60 patients at day and two at night. Some 30 of those 60 are really bad and in most cases had bad strokes and can't move. I work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We work 12 hours shifts. 12/24;12/48.

I work in Neurology. 3 of us work on 60 patients at day and two at night. Some 30 of those 60 are really bad and in most cases had bad strokes and can't move. I work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We work 12 hours shifts. 12/24;12/48.