Where you work

Where do you work at and what is your pt/nurse ratio? Does your facility do team nursing or primary nursing?

Nursing home in NE Ark. Ratio is about 25 residents to 1 LPN.

nursing and rehab in SEA and it's 40 to 1 on the 3-11 shift and I forget on the 7-3... but let me tell ya it gets crazy I do a lot of 7AM to 11PM and having that many will make ya go crazy :chuckle

Oncology 3-4 pts per RN, no LPN positions.

Orthopedics... can have up to 8-9 patients on a post op surgical floor

I work at a LTC facility in North Central Arkansas, our nurse pt ratio 30-40 residents per nurse, depending on which area you work in the facility, at maximum census, the most residents a nurse could have is 48 on day/evening shift, and 60 on night shift.

~Brat

I work in ICU now. If pt's are true ICU then it is max 2 patients. If some are telemetry overflow patients, we can have 3 or 4 .

I used to work med surg and we would have up to 6 on days and up to 8 on nocs. Hopefully we would have enough techs for support, but not always.

Christine