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I’m an RN working in California. How many patients can I have?


December 1st, 2022

I know that Med-Surg- 1:5 ratio, Telemetry-1:4, Step Down-1:3, ICU-1:2. This should also depend on acuity of patients but those should be the maximum ratios. In regards to SNF, I don’t think they have any nurse to patient ratio that I know of.