What is the nurse to patient ratio in your facility?

ONSnrs · Jun 24, 2006

I work nights, in oncology PCU, and bone marrow transplant unit.

16 beds

6 nurses

2 patient care techs

3:1 ratio

Seems like a small amt of patients per nurse, but we are giving courses of high dose chemotherapy sometimes 4 chemos per patient in one night and they need close monitoring for reactions.

Hockeytown · Jun 26, 2006

I work nights, in oncology PCU, and bone marrow transplant unit.
16 beds
6 nurses
2 patient care techs
3:1 ratio
Seems like a small amt of patients per nurse, but we are giving courses of high dose chemotherapy sometimes 4 chemos per patient in one night and they need close monitoring for reactions.

You don't have to explain, you have your work cut out for you.

acceptancekey · Jul 10, 2006

235 beds total

med surg floor is 30 beds

6-8 patients per nurse (with no call ins) day shift, 8-10 night shift, 12 hours shifts

3-4 aids day shift, 2 on nights

We have an IVT that does all IV starts, restarts and picc lines

We also have a respiratory team that does all respiratory tx including first 3 insentive spirometer uses

We also have a transport team that transports patients to and from procedures

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Jul 14, 2006

What type of facility do you work at? Nursing home.

How many beds? 205 beds

How many nurses per patient/resident? One nurse cares for 18 patients.

How many aides per patient/resident? One aide cares for 12 patients.

Are you satisfied with staffing levels at your facility? Yes; I've had worse.

How much time do you estimate you actually spend directly with each of your patients/residents per shift? Less than one hour per resident.

angeRN6297, RN · Jul 20, 2006

Our hospital has 600 beds and we are bursting at the seems.. they are building a new tower for the patients...I work on a 12 bed unit, days has 3 nurses and 1 aide, at night its just 2 nurses and 1 aide....keeps us hopping!!

Cindy_RN · Jul 31, 2006

What type of facility do you work at? County hospital ER

How many beds? approx 60+ bed, 6 trauma bays, 5 critical care rooms, 8 Chest pain chairs, numerous chairs which patients are seen and treated from, as well as an urgent care OB/GYN clinic and a fast track area

How many nurses per bed? you get approximately 1 nurse for 20-30 patients most I have seen is 42

How many nurses per patient/resident? you get 1 nurse per team which has a resident and an intern on the team

How many aides per bed? No aides occassionally 1 tech

How many aides per patient/resident? see above

Are you satisfied with staffing levels at your facility? HECK NO

If not, do you think this impacts patient/resident health? it for sure does patients wait in the waiting room for sometimes as long as 12 or more hours before seeing a doctor

How much time do you estimate you actually spend directly with each of your patients/residents per shift? our shifts are 12 hours long and you may not see a patient the entire shift depending on the acuity of other patients

I supposed this is what happens when you see over 300 patients in 24 hour hours and the hospital cant staff the ER adequately

bawms · Aug 2, 2006

I work 2 jobs......the one is a LTC/SNF facility and I have anywhere from 45-50 residents to care for...heavy care people......2 CNA's, 3 if I am lucky. My other job is LTC/SNF and I have 30 fairly easy care residents with 3 Cna's. Currently, plan on moving to another state and hope it is a little better......can't be much worse.

jrbl77, RN · Aug 6, 2006

my meds surg unit is supposed to have adequate stffing to allow 6 pts per day shift, 7 on 3-11 and 8 on 11-7. however i feel we are in crisis and often it is 8 on days, 10-11 on 3-11 and 13 or more on nights. nurses are often begged to stay over for the next shift for up $300 per shift. this is a very frustrating situation

MiaLyse, APRN · Aug 6, 2006

What type of facility do you work at? Nursing home.
How many beds? 205 beds
How many nurses per patient/resident? One nurse cares for 18 patients.
How many aides per patient/resident? One aide cares for 12 patients.
Are you satisfied with staffing levels at your facility? Yes; I've had worse.
How much time do you estimate you actually spend directly with each of your patients/residents per shift? Less than one hour per resident.

I also work in a nursing home at the moment. 254 beds. I work on the Geri-psych unit with 60 residents. We get 2 nurses, usually 3 CNA's (we feel lucky with 4) and NO, I'm not satisfied with the staffing levels. Currently looking for new employment.

working4aBSN · Aug 8, 2006

I work in a 250 bed hospital in a rather big community.

I work in the ICU and the ration is 1:2 unless we are short staff and the ratio will increase 1:3. We have 14 beds and usually the acuity of the patients is pretty high. We call for 7 seven nurses when we are full but if we had a bypass come back late then that nurse is 1:1 and we call for eight nurses. I am happy with the 1:2 ratio and sometimes the ratio of 1:3 is manageable.

On the regular nursing floor their ration can range from 1:5 to 1:7 depending on the staffing. The floors have more access to aides then the units. We have two aides that work the unit but they are not always there so it is hard to count them.

Nysloss · Aug 11, 2006

Craven Regional Medical Center (CRMC) New Bern, NC Med/Surg is 5:1 Day Shift but it's going to 7:1, and there's no saying more can't happen.

Carteret General Hospital (CGH) Morehead City, NC Med/Surg is 8:1 Day Shift

Lenoir Memorial Hospital (LMH) Kinston, NC Med/Surg is 9:1 Day Shift

StudyingRN · Aug 16, 2006

Hospital on Med/Surg Unit

36 Bed Unit

5-6 pts to nurse

9-12 pts to Aide

2 Unit Secretaries

We get it all so somtimes these levels cut it and sometimes they don't. If I have 12 pts (I'm an Aide) and 6 are totals I'm screwed! If everyone is able bodied and stable it's a good day. The key is to help each other out and for the most part we do a really good job at that. :biere: