Your facility limit number of admissions? Staffing

[SuburbsGirl]

If you're facility is getting hit with admissions and say there's only 2 nurses there. Any limit on how many your required to do? If there is 2 nurses with 12 open beds and 12 admissions coming what happens?

[verene, MSN]

I work in sub-actute, facility is 16 beds, 1 floor RN, and one intake/referral/admissions RN during the week only. We max at 3 admissions per day even if the facility is empty. More usual is 1-2 discharges and 1-2 admits.

[Catalin, BSN, RN]

I work psych. My inpatient facility states that you're only allowed 12 patients, but I've also heard of days where it was 14 due to not enough staff.

[ThatNurseThough, ADN, RN]

When I was an inpatient psych nurse in the prison system I was the only nurse on a unit of about 30 serious felons, it was a super-max unit where all the patients had been convicted of murder, attempted murder, rape, arson, or terrorism. In the job I currently have as a nurse on a Tele/ICU stepdown unit, we are supposed to be a 1:3 flex to 1:4, but in reality we are at 1:4-5 flexing to 1:6.

Our facility really will just push nurses to take more patients and try to shuffle patients around with any patient who can be maybe downgraded getting shipped to medsurg and bringing all the new patients up if there is an open room.

[K8e]

I worked on a unit with 18 beds and one swing room. Even if we only had 2 nurses, we had to keep admitting until we were full. Nurse to patient ratio is supposed to be 1:4. The hospital didn't care about their nurses and they know we're drowning, but it doesn't matter. All they care about is money and "the patient experience" which means they never turn anyone away.