No its not fair and it has to be a gap in patient care with you being over worked. Find a position that has respect for the patients as well as staff. Your patients can not be getting the proper care needed. Its imposible!

no-it's way too much even if you are doing nothing but giving baths. How can they expect one person to do this? It's not fair to the patients either.

I thought 2nd shift gave showers and baths too, why should this all be on 1st shift?

There is no way that one person alone should be caring for 27 patients, nor is it even legal! If that is the type of working conditions you have to endure and that is the neglect that is endured by the patients, then it falls back on the staff of that facility to report to the proper channels so that does not happen. If you don't act to change things, then who will? It's not fair to you and it certainly is not fair to the patients.

I worked at a subacute before day shift, through the registry, everone was total care, had trachs, foley caths, and GTubes. They didn't had disposables diapers, you had to change the whole entire bed, by yourself, mind you , the patients could not move, they had about 3 or bowel movements each through the entire 12 hour shift, and when they go, you have to change the whole entire bed. The nursing care there was loudsy, when I say loudsy, the nurses didn't irrigate the rectal bags, and when you are cleaning code brown all day, the foley caths were not place properly in urethra, so when you turn the patient, the cath comes out, one time I was changing a patient, It was my first time ever seeing a rectal bag before, the nurses didn't give no reports on the patients, so you have to work as you go, so to make a long story short, I turned the patients, and suddenly, the rectal bag fell on the floor, onto my shoes, I said DAMMIT, what was that, it was a overloaded rectal bag, it looked like it hadn't been change in a day or two. I was so mad, I called my registry, and told them that that was my last day, ever working there. So I know how it is to be burden down, without any help!!

Humm I wonder if we work at the same place. I am a student nurse and have 15 icu patients. And now I am out due to a back injury. I wonder why? I just keep telling myself every week that passes means that I am closer to graduating.

no zonnie21 i doubt we work at the same place. You work in the icu in my icu we dont have pcts. this is on a regular tele med/surg floor. You have to ask ur self if u want to keep ur back or get the degree and cant work and in my icu the nurses are worst they have 2patients but sometimes they dont even get washed and when they come to the floor they have all sorts of breakdowns etc............. Dont get me wrong i love my job and the place i work but what i dont like is to see co workers being treated unfairly and i am one to speak up

OF COURSE THATS NOT FAIR, THAT IS TOO MANT RESIDENTS TO ONE PERSON

Not only is this unfare, but also against the law!!!!! Might want to bring this to someones attention. Not only is it unfair to u, but your patents are suffering as well. No matter how good you are, its virtually impossible to give the proper care to each patient. 27 showers before lunch? Add feeding, rounds, and misc. demands, especially on the day shift!! NO, u need to address this issue.

OMG my mouth dropped when I saw this. I do not know where you live, but I would be bringing it to the attention of whoever regulates your standards of care for the area, like department of human services......

Do not walk out if you have accepted the assignment as this is abandonment, but speak up, speak up, speak up!!!!!!!!!The DON should be there to help if this is a staffing issues, or charge nurse of who ever is responsible for the unit... Put your foot down.

It is not fair to the patients or you...... This is neglect, and if my family member was where ever you work I would be PISSED.