NurseDiana
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| 09/21/2009 5:25 PM |
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| Hello there, my name is Diana and I will graduate from nursing school in December, 2009. Does anyone know how many patients a new grad is expected to take??? |
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Kimberly
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| 12/07/2009 3:37 PM |
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| You will be expected to take the same amount of patients as all the other nurses. Once your orientation is over in most facilities it is an expectation to take an equal load as your colleagues. |
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Maria
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| 12/28/2009 8:54 PM |
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That's an understatement of the year! Sorry....in the real world, for those who work in a nursing home, it is not unusual to have an assignment of 30 plus residents to take care of. Bedside care goes out the window and you find yourself being a mechanical robot passing pills. Then you are expected to do treatments, charting, scheduling appointments, taking off orders, and the worst nightmare...an incident or fall that occurs, which involves more paperwork. And the one that will take you over the wall....that new admission that takes precedence. You find yourself totally exhausted and you become obsessed with your bed. The only place you can finally sleep and rest. Looking forward to the next day? It will make you sick, but you have bills to pay and it's never ending. Nursing is not what it used to be. Management cuts corners, overloads their staff, and expects everyone to love their job. RN stands for "really nuts." I can't wait to retire soon and pray that I don't end up under someone's care that doesn't give 100%.
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DaymonF
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| 01/25/2010 7:47 PM |
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| whatever happened to all this "nurse to patient" ratio legislation that was supposed to be taking the country by storm. About 2 years ago I heard union radio ads, saw newspaper op-ed pieces that all this was happening soon. Now........nothing!!!!! I haven't seen anyone talking about it or doing anything about it. What happened!?!?! Fill me in!!! |
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Maria Gloria
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| 04/11/2010 5:54 PM |
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| I too think there should be a standard patient to nurse ratio. I started to question this when we were at 44 residents and was told that 45 is the magic number. well here we are at 50 and still just one nurse. I find myself not only doing my job, but also CNA work as we are always short handed. I have found a different place to work, and this place too has to deal with CNA's calling in, but it is not nearly as bad a my previous place of employment. |
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Sharon
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| 04/12/2010 2:54 AM |
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| Today nursing in my area is much better than when I started in '83, now we carry 5-6 patients with a CNA but back when I started nursing we had 8-9 and these are cardiac patients too..........we didn't even have a CNA back then, we had to shave/shower/pre-op all bypass and other cardiac patients ourselves and give the pre-op meds then send them off to surgery. Course we got all permits and did patient teaching as well before they went to surgery. Looking back, I don't see how we managed sometimes. Back then, when you came to work and a little red heart was beside your name, that meant you had to respond to all CODE BLUE calls that day, we did not have physicians that responded to our codes, we had to run them ourselves......now you have rapid response teams and ER docs that come running......and a holding room for patients to go to before surgery to get pre-oped, so see some things have improved. What has gotten worse are the cut-backs due to financial reasons.....which I do not understand totally, but hospitals are a "business" nowdays, not like it used to be. |
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