Ridiculous overstaffing in the ED by nurses

[MacGyver]

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I dont know if my hospital is just screwed up or whatever, but at my place they have 1 doc for about every 15 patients, but there is 1 RN for every 2 patients as well as 1 nurse tech for every 2 patients.

Thats ridiculously overstaffed IMO. No way in hell do you need a 2:1 patient to nurse ratio in the ED. In the ICU, maybe, but having that many people in the ED is a joke.

 

[hazl0004]

I would much rather have your staffing problem then what we have in my understaffed ED. Most of our nurses have 4-5 patients, including ICU boarders periodically. There's 3 techs for the entire ED of 45 beds. I find myself making beds, discharging patients, doing all the splints, handing out lunch trays.
So please, don't complain about nursing overstaffing.

 

[Hercules]

I would much rather have your staffing problem then what we have in my understaffed ED. Most of our nurses have 4-5 patients, including ICU boarders periodically. There's 3 techs for the entire ED of 45 beds. I find myself making beds, discharging patients, doing all the splints, handing out lunch trays.
So please, don't complain about nursing overstaffing.

Ditto here. You're in a very unique and enviable situation if your department is overstaffed with nurses. That must be wonderful. Our nurses are great and they work really hard, but there's still a good bit of lag time between orders entered and orders completed when we're understaffed.

 

[Jeff698]

I would much rather have your staffing problem then what we have in my understaffed ED.

Amen. Preach it, brother!

Take care,
Jeff

 

[kungfufishing]

surely this thread was an attempt at sarcasm?

 

[Red Runner]

I dont know if my hospital is just screwed up or whatever, but at my place they have 1 doc for about every 15 patients, but there is 1 RN for every 2 patients as well as 1 nurse tech for every 2 patients.

Thats ridiculously overstaffed IMO. No way in hell do you need a 2:1 patient to nurse ratio in the ED. In the ICU, maybe, but having that many people in the ED is a joke.

Our nurses are routinely taking care of five or more patients and as a result we are hemorrhaging good nurses left and right. I think, that soon, we will only have new grads in the ED... 🙁

If you are indeed serious... count your blessings. 🙂

 

[Bring It On]

Good nurses are hard to come by, I mean seasoned nurses are hard to come by and if i was lucky enough to have 1:2 ratio of nurses to patients...well, I would count my blessing.....again, I know you are joking about too many nurses

 

[roja]

You guys are kidding right? your nurses carry five max?

wow. Our nurses get seriously screwed. They are often carrying 8-10 patietns.


Ah... to dream