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Yes, I am sure you are right. I don't have a choice anyway but to accept it. Thanks!

Well the stepdown unit has 8 beds and the ratio is 1:4. On our end on the telemetry unit we do have a tech monitoring and I think last weekend on the stepdown unit they did have a pct helping them. Unfortunately there is no union here. I am from NY where we had super strong unions but I have just been in this state for one year and I was shocked to know there is no union. The secretary is over on our telemetry side of the floor. We used to be one floor below and the med-surg unit was where we are now but they decided a month ago to have us switch floors so we were closer to the ICU. Now they are right down the hall from us so that's a good thing. I think there is 6 or 8 beds in the ICU as well. Honestly, when they don't have enough staff or the ER gets backed up, they suddenly move patients out of ICU to our unit sometimes to make room in the ICU. They did that big transfer of patients the other night due to no staff, it was crazy. It's not a very large hospital overall but I am concerned about what type of things I would be responsible for that I may not be familiar with and will just get 2 days training to learn. The only drips we do on our unit is heparin, any other ones such as nitro, insulin etc goes to the stepdown or ICU. I am concerned though in general. The ICU is down the hall but there is just one charge nurse covering both the step-down and telemetry unit and just 2 nurses with 8 patients. I don't know, it just seems a bit risky to me.

Hi All, I work on a telemetry unit but was told today that they are going to cross train us to work on the step down unit. They had to transfer all the step-down patients last week to our unit because they didnt have enough staff to keep the unit open over night. So they put 3 patients on the med-surg unit and the others came to us. They said they will give us two days training and then rotate us over there. This seems like a huge liability to us-the nurses. Plus I feel it should be a choice if we want to be trained to work there rather than having no choice. Do you think this is a risk to our licenses?