All right. Kenneth, we're back with another episode of one-to-one nursing. How are you doing?

Oh, I'm spectacular. How about you? It's my favorite time a year. Indeed. Indeed. Yes,

it is beautiful out. And last time I was doing a lot of the speaking, Kenneth, so I figured I'd take a

break and have one where you're doing the majority of the talking. And so we're going to discuss an issue on this episode that I have no idea about. And I've always been curious. In fact, one of the reasons I wanted to do this podcast with you is questions like this one, which I want to know how nurses manage their workload. Are you cool talking about that, Candice? Oh, yeah. No problem.

You want to know what it's like to be me?

Is that what you're asking?

Not you because you're not good representation.

I think most of the folks out there, nor am I.

But I want to hear your projection of the quintessential ED nurse taking care of a bunch of sick patients.

And the scenario I want to give you, Candace, is you're not in this glorified place where it's one to one or even one to two, like you might

have at your shop. I want to say in most EDs, if they have a couple of sick patients, they're

also caring for two or three non-sick ones. And I think if you could get down to a four-to-one nursing ratio for the

sick patients at most EDs, you're doing a great job. So let's pretend that. You have two sick

patients and you've accumulated another two or three sort of sick patients. And so you're carrying

like a four or five patient workload. I wanna hear with that as the context,

how you manage that workload.

Let's say the most recent sick patient has just come in.

You guys have done the swarm and now things have settled out.

The docs have gone off, the place orders.

You have your one existing super sick patient.

You have two other semi-sick

and you have one brand new critically ill

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