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| mark |
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trying to find the nurse to patient ratios for north carolina. Specifically
I am an LPN working in a rehab/ nursing home. Can anyone recommend a good
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| Joe |
| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:56 pm |
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| Mortimer Schnerd, RN |
| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:17 pm |
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mark wrote:
Quote: trying to find the nurse to patient ratios for north carolina. Specifically
I am an LPN working in a rehab/ nursing home. Can anyone recommend a good
web site?
Although I no longer work in North Carolina, I am licensed there. To my
knowledge, there is no specified patient: nurse ratio. Much of my experience
has been in hospital med-surg units where I took care of 5-6 patients on days
and as many as 12 at night with the assistance of a nurse's aid. Sometimes at
night I did charge and took 12 patients as well. I did not do baths, vital
signs, or feed people. I did my own finger sticks, meds and dressings. I
handled the occasional bedpan but not routinely.
When I worked critical care, I normally had two patients. I did everything.
Now I work in South Carolina and am back in med-surg. On days, I have 5-7
patients with the assistance of a nurse's aid. I do my own meds, dressings, and
odd jobs. I do even more charting. My assistant handles vital signs, finger
sticks, baths, feeding, and most of the bedpans.
When I first came to SC, we started the day with 8 patients and at 1500, when
the 7-3 staff hit the trail, I ended up with 10 patients. It was totally out of
control. I went home every night pissed and had the occasional panic attack at
work. You had the things you were supposed to do and if you didn't get them
done, too bad. The patient did without. While my situation is hardly ideal
today, at least it isn't the hellhole I started in. We got a new director who
saw reason and things improved (somewhat).
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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com |
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| Truckdude |
| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:33 am |
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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" <mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com> wrote in message
news:FeidnST_qurZ8QTYnZ2dnUVZ_sqdnZ2d@giganews.com...
Quote: mark wrote:
trying to find the nurse to patient ratios for north carolina.
Specifically
I am an LPN working in a rehab/ nursing home. Can anyone recommend a good
web site?
Although I no longer work in North Carolina, I am licensed there. To my
knowledge, there is no specified patient: nurse ratio. Much of my
experience has been in hospital med-surg units where I took care of 5-6
patients on days and as many as 12 at night with the assistance of a
nurse's aid. Sometimes at night I did charge and took 12 patients as
well. I did not do baths, vital signs, or feed people. I did my own
finger sticks, meds and dressings. I handled the occasional bedpan but
not routinely.
When I worked critical care, I normally had two patients. I did
everything.
Now I work in South Carolina and am back in med-surg. On days, I have 5-7
patients with the assistance of a nurse's aid. I do my own meds,
dressings, and odd jobs. I do even more charting. My assistant handles
vital signs, finger sticks, baths, feeding, and most of the bedpans.
When I first came to SC, we started the day with 8 patients and at 1500,
when the 7-3 staff hit the trail, I ended up with 10 patients. It was
totally out of control. I went home every night pissed and had the
occasional panic attack at work. You had the things you were supposed to
do and if you didn't get them done, too bad. The patient did without.
While my situation is hardly ideal today, at least it isn't the hellhole I
started in. We got a new director who saw reason and things improved
(somewhat).
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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com
Ahh, the memories of my nurse's aid days in adult med-surg. Those memories
keep me in peds critical care.
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| editor@netpath.net |
| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:20 am |
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mark wrote:
Quote: trying to find the nurse to patient ratios for north carolina. Specifically
I am an LPN working in a rehab/ nursing home.
Varies greatly by time of day - at least at one good nursing home in
North Carolina my late mother was in. NIL nurses really on duty during
dinnertime - but many visible when it wasn't.
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| cat |
| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:53 pm |
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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" <mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com> wrote in message
Quote: Although I no longer work in North Carolina, I am licensed there.
Now I work in South Carolina and am back in med-surg.
Not to sidetrack, but now that SC is a compact state, aren't you required to
give up your NC license? |
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| cat |
| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:55 pm |
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"mark" <soxfan230@yahoo.com> wrote in message
Quote: trying to find the nurse to patient ratios for north carolina.
Specifically I am an LPN working in a rehab/ nursing home. Can anyone
recommend a good web site?
Not many states have mandated nurse/patient ratios. In long-term care,
depending on the shift, you would expect to have anywhere from 15-60
residents on your caseload. If your unit is primarily subacute residents,
you should expect a smaller patient load than if they are all long-term
residents, but even that isn't necessarily so. |
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| Mortimer Schnerd, RN |
| Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:30 pm |
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cat wrote:
Quote: "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" <mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com> wrote in message
Although I no longer work in North Carolina, I am licensed there.
Now I work in South Carolina and am back in med-surg.
Not to sidetrack, but now that SC is a compact state, aren't you required to
give up your NC license?
No. I gave up my SC license. I have lived in NC since 1968; I just work in SC
now. I worked in NC for several years after graduating, then got a SC license
when I started working down there. I never gave up my NC license though.
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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
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