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FLAMING EVIL HOMER posted...

Can you do nursing not in the ICU?
What were your patient to nurse ratios at your jobs?

I do med-surge/Neuro, and its terrible but the patients aren't near ICU level most of the time.

I'd rather not go back to med-surg ever again. When I was doing med-surg it was usually between 5-7 patients a shift, not counting discharges and new admits. It felt like adult daycare most of the time and I was just constantly busy. In the ICU I just had my two patients and while it was a lot to manage, I liked that they didn't talk or pull of their IVs and complain about everything. I'd take a sedated vented patient over someone hitting the call light every 5 minutes to tell me their water is too cold or is missing a single ice chip. We never had techs or CNAs, nobody wants to do that awful work for less than they would make at Target.