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What is the RN to patient ratio in your facility?
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Carly Anderson
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01-21-2021 10:28 AM
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Hi Everyone,
Wondering what your RN to patient ratio is if you are an Acute psychiatric hospital that is also attached to a medical hospital?
Thanks!
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Ja'el Powers
02-24-2021 12:23 PM
I left the largest acute care facility in Palm Beach County approx. 3 years ago. We had a 7:1 ratio on
most
sub-acute (not step-down)
floors, however, some floors were accepting an 8:1 ratio. This included new grads who had just finished preceptorship (including me). I was shocked to learn this because 7:1 was dangerous in my opinion. To my knowledge, the ICU had a 2-3:1. At my first ER job, I had 5 patient rooms, 2 of which were code rooms from 7:00 am to 11:00 am, which believe you me is scary.
What frustrated me the most about this was that the nurses simply complained instead of actually doing something about this. I recall once, as a new grad off preceptorship, refusing an 8th patient due to patient safety. My nurse manager became angry with me and threatened to call the director who was off-campus at the time. I told her to go ahead and call (mostly because at that point I would have been thrilled to be let go.
Matthew Zide
01-21-2021 12:55 PM
I work at a teaching hospital in an urban setting located in the midwest. We have two floors (acute/subacute). The acute floor runs a 4:1 ratio, the sub acute runs a 6:1 ratio.
That being said, I work the acute floor, most shifts I carry 2-3 patients depending on acuity.
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