tele nurses

ONCRN84 · Jun 8, 2008

I don't work in Tele, but I know our tele nurses have no more than 5 patients, day or night. And yes, they have aides too. Aides usually take 10-15 at night. During the day I think it's 5 because they're matched up with an RN.

megananne7 · Jun 8, 2008

Currently, we are medical tele, not cardiac tele. We specialize in CVAs but are primarly a med surg floor. We usually have 6:1 in our groups, but when short a nurse, up to 8 pts

suzy253, RN · Jun 8, 2008

I work in a 'step-down' (yeah, right), tele floor. All patients are on cardiac monitors and I have usually 6 or 7:1

Virgo_RN, BSN, RN · Jun 8, 2008

Cardiac tele. Four patients usually, five rarely.

hogan4736, BSN, RN · Jun 8, 2008

5:1

I would never tolerate more, and I close beds d/t short staffing...

CNA: 5:1, up to 7:1

MMARN, BSN, RN · Jun 8, 2008

For my unit, it's 5:1 sometimes 6. No more than that, though. (Personally, I can barely handle 5, much less 6!)

longjourneydream · Jun 8, 2008

I work medical tele,

ratio of 5to6 patients a PCA to 10-14 patients each.

Our directors goal is to make it 5:1 now that we are going to being neuro certified.

1TachyRN, RN · Jun 8, 2008

2-4:1 on a cardiac floor, depending on acuity and staffing. Most of the time we have a tech, but sometimes we don't. But we never have more than four patients.

Yeah, they're good to us here. Don't hate.

carrie13 · Jun 8, 2008

I'm on a cardiac tele floor. day and evening shift is 4 patients, rarely 5 if we are short. Night shift is 6 patients. We have aides that cover 12 patients.

Spatialized · Jun 9, 2008

Cardiac tele, 3-4 days, 3-4 at night. 1 aide for up to 23 patients on nights and 3 split 46 beds on days. Unit secretary 9-9 and tele techs 24-7.

Used to 5:1 on nights with same CNA ratio.

Can't imagine more than 5, seems a little unsafe.

Tom

dawngloves, BSN, RN · Jun 9, 2008

I've worked agency and been to many a tele unit. If you work at a facility that does CABGs and has a Cath Lab you can have, depending on the shift, 3- 5 pts.I've also worked places that were more a "medical tele" unit and had 6 pts on days.