I am a new nurse. I have been working in an ALF for the past four months. Experienced nurses; can you tell me how your experience has been in assisted living? I have anywhere between 38-42 residents at any given time. We only ever have Two CNAs and one LPN on the floor. When administering meds we only have a two hour window to administer all medications. Anything that falls outside of that window is considered a med error. Medications must be prepared in the presence of the resident that often wander around and have dementia. I have calculated that if I am to manage everything on time according to the book then I only have 2.4 minutes for each resident. Is this realistic? Or are we understaffed?