What is the maximum number of patients per nurse on your Medical/Surgical floor?

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What is the maximum number of patients per nurse on your Medical/Surgical floor?

Which shift?

How often do you find yourself in such a situation?

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The most I've had were 8 patients nights, medical floor with tele

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Can anyone beat 12 patients (without Telemetry) with everything else including vents on the nights shift?

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Hospital Staffing

Number of nurses to patients as mandated by California legislature.

Nurse/patient

Unit Type ratio

Medical-surgical 1:5

Pediatric 1:4

Intensive-care units 1:2

Oncology 1:5

Labor/delivery 1:3

SOURCE: Health Services Research

More nurses, less death | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/20/2010

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