Staffing requirements

[Kaysmom8]

Recently our DON refuses to staff us with 3 Rn's for our newly opened Med bridge unit but on the daily printed schedules they have 3 Rn's listed (1 for each of the 3 halls) but they will write on the schedule "desk nurse" or "cancelled " I'm fairly new and find it a little fishy that they short staff us but on paper we are fully staffed. Do facilities have to report this info to the state?

[Glycerine82, LPN]

In SC they post the staffing in a public place, and have requirements. What they don't say, though, is that 5/10 nurses are not working the floor. They include MDS and anyone else who is in the building in that number.