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  1. Higher patient load, higher acuity, and adverse events

    snsbelcher posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I work in a 30 bed Progressive care unit with 10 of our beds being licensed for ICU patients. Our administration has been proposing increasing our nurse to patient ratios from 1:3 to 1:4 or even 1:5...

  2. Starting a position in ICU Stepdown

    snsbelcher replied to ambianco9's topic in MICU, SICU

    I work in a progressive care unit (formally titled step down), and have been here for about a year and a half. In my opinion, the step down I'd ra totally different kind of busy than the icu. No,...

  3. Higher patient load, higher acuity, and adverse events

    snsbelcher replied to snsbelcher's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Administration isn't increasing their bottom line with these ratios. Actually, we had a 470% increase in hai's in May. We went from zero clabs, ssi's, and caudi's last year on our unit to 4 in one...