What's the nurse-patient ratio in your unit?

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I wanted to get a poll on nurse patient ratio. I know its different in every unit. So if you can indicate what unit you work in, that would be great! Thank you.

I work in a neuro tele unit and we get 5 patients.

Specializes in LTC, med/surg, hospice.

Nights

5-7:1

Inpatient hospice (hospice house)

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

Level 2 trauma ER - 7/8:1

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Specializes in Operating Room.

I work on an Orthopaedics unit and we are 5:1 on days and 6:1 on nights, sometimes 7:1.

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I work on the medical floor in a Georgia hospital and typical is starting with 4 to 5 patients. I have had to go to 6 patients a few times which is usually awful! I work nights but on days they at least have a charge with no patients. Also CNAs are supposed to have around 10 patients but sometimes they go up to around 12-13.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
Psych unit I worked on, would usually have 5-6 pts, but Ive had 16 pts plus two techs when I was short an RN.

When I used to work outside of California, they were short that second nurse a lot...and often short that second tech too. Just one of several reasons why I'm planning to stay in CA.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Telemetry, Med-Surg.

When I worked tele, it was 1:6-7. When I worked med-surg, it was 1:5. We never had more than 5 on that unit. The nurse leader would take patients before giving us more than 5.

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My med/surg unit is 4:1 during the day 6:1 at night.

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Med/Surg- 6 patients, if we get rid of 3 we have to admit 3.

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Specializes in NICU.

Surgical trauma, 4:1 on days and 6:1 on nights.

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Specializes in Hospice.

I work on a telemetry/stroke/ICU step-down. We take all CVA patients that are not TPA'd for the first 24hours (usually longer), post-op CABG, cardiac gtts but we can't titrate, all glucostabilizers, and all other cardiac patients, add a few ETOH and OD patients too. Our ratio is 1:4 on days and 1:5 on nights. I think I need a raise.:cautious:

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Psych nurse, usually 8:1 depending on census but 8 is maximum. This is day shift.

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Specializes in ICU.

ICU 1:1 for vented pts, 2:1 for non-vented (depends on acuity). When I worked in dialysis it was 4:1 for chronics and 3:1 for acutes.

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