What is the nurse to patient ratio in your facility?

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What type of facility do you work at?

How many beds?

How many nurses per bed?

How many nurses per patient/resident?

How many aides per bed?

How many aides per patient/resident?

Are you satisfied with staffing levels at your facility?

If not, do you think this impacts patient/resident health?

How much time do you estimate you actually spend directly with each of your patients/residents per shift?

Thanks!

ELM

Specializes in SNF, Psych, Sub Acute, Long Term Rehab.

I just worked at a wonderful facility tonight! It was skilled nursing and long term care. The cleanest place I have ever been to! The patient to nurse ratio was 12:1. The patients were happy and pleasant because the nurses had time to give them. I actually felt like I was nursing the patients and not the tasks. In facilities where the ratio is outrageous, the patients are alway angry feel neglected, the nurse just doesn't have a chance before he/she walks through the door. You can really see a positive difference when the ratios are lower. Can't these facilities see that happy positive patients are more prone to healing than pist off angry ones who lose hope?

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Specializes in A/E.

i work in 27 beded ward (med -surg) our ratio is 6-5:1 depending on the census some time we can get 2-3pt to 1nurse

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What type of facility do you work at? a Long term Care facility

How many beds? 82

How many nurses per bed?

How many nurses per patient/resident? when full? about 37 to 42.. we're talking MED nurses..

How many aides per bed?

How many aides per patient/resident? about 14.5

Are you satisfied with staffing levels at your facility?NOOOOOO

If not, do you think this impacts patient/resident health? not enough time with the patients and work loads can be AWFUL

How much time do you estimate you actually spend directly with each of your patients/residents per shift? about 5 min.. SOMEtimes 10

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Specializes in dialysis, OR.

At our hospital, it is 1:5-6 usually with 1-2 cna's and one unit secretary 7-3

with 1 cna and a secretary 3-11. 11-7 has 1 cna. The same number of nurses with each shift

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Specializes in SNF, Psych, Sub Acute, Long Term Rehab.

I've worked at facilities like this as registry. It is toooo dangerous! There is no way you can stay within the two hour window of a med pass to administer all of the meds as ordered. Most of the patients can't swallow well anyway and it take a while just to get the meds down, crushed or not. If the patient has any kind of dementia then you have to convince them that it is their meds that their doctor ordered and no they haven't already had them. Then the alert ones want a rundown of each med, what it is, what it does, and why they need to take it, and why they should take it. A med pass can easily go way beyond the two hour window.

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