I’m sorry to hear that you have such a high turnover rate on the cardiac unit. This truly is a great idea to address. That is too bad that 9 nurses have left in the last couple years. Maybe the nurse-patient ratio is too high for safe and adequate care of the step-down patients. It sounds like recruitment is also a problem for the facility. Hopefully, through your change project you can identify all of the reasons why nurses are leaving then talk to management and make the necessary changes to help nurses stay working on that unit. Great ideas for success. Your change project looks like it is coming along nicely. Good luck!
Honestly a 1:6 patient ratio is crazy for this unit. I have worked PCU units with the same parameters of drips and fresh strokes. Our ratio has always been 1:4 in every hospital I have worked and in addition for the charge nurse to take a full patient load again is crazy. That is the reason nurses leave. I would never work that ratio for these types of patients. I mean, I have 1:6 on med/surg on NO drips. Honestly, if I worked there I would tell new people to run. People need to stop taking this many patients with these acuities. It is why I have left the bedside.
I’m sorry to hear that you have such a high turnover rate on the cardiac unit. This truly is a great idea to address. That is too bad that 9 nurses have left in the last couple years. Maybe the nurse-patient ratio is too high for safe and adequate care of the step-down patients. It sounds like recruitment is also a problem for the facility. Hopefully, through your change project you can identify all of the reasons why nurses are leaving then talk to management and make the necessary changes to help nurses stay working on that unit. Great ideas for success. Your change project looks like it is coming along nicely. Good luck!
Honestly a 1:6 patient ratio is crazy for this unit. I have worked PCU units with the same parameters of drips and fresh strokes. Our ratio has always been 1:4 in every hospital I have worked and in addition for the charge nurse to take a full patient load again is crazy. That is the reason nurses leave. I would never work that ratio for these types of patients. I mean, I have 1:6 on med/surg on NO drips. Honestly, if I worked there I would tell new people to run. People need to stop taking this many patients with these acuities. It is why I have left the bedside.