what is the ratio for nurses per patiece in nursing homes?
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it depends if you mean a non medical program or a visiting nurse program.\n\nvisiting nurses are only covered by medicare for 90 days after a hospitalization with acute skilled nursing need (changing dressings and bandages, etc)\n\nafter that it jumps to like 25 dollars an hour or so.... same with having a nurses assistant come in to help toilet them, thats like 15 dollars an hour.\n\ntry this... in NY (where i live ) there is a program called Expanded In Home Services for the Elderly (EISEP). there is a huge shift right now towards non institutionalized home care, and these programs are much cheaper than visiting professionals. mostly volunteers who come and assist them with dressing, cooking, and companionship. these services are not covered by Medicare and you can't get the services if you are eligible for Medicaid, but they're mostly state funded and i think the client only has to pay %15 percent of the cost. Again, this is in NY, so I'm not sure about Indiana, go to your State Department of Health Website and browse around under the Office for the Aging (or anything similar to that) and see if you can get the ball rolling.\n\ngood luck
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Really low.  In California it's just a couple of bucks above minimum wage.  That makes sense though because it requires almost no training.  Go into nursing instead.  Good income there.
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As of 1999, there were an estimated 3.5 physicians and 7.1 hospital beds per 1,000 people. There were over 4,000 specialists providing secondary outpatient care in 1998. Slovakia has a higher ratio of nurses per population (7.4 per 1,000 people in 1998) than other Eastern European countries. As of 1999, total health care expenditure was estimated at 6.5% of GDP.
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Helpful Tips on Starting a Nursing Career\n\nGraduates completing their nursing program can look forward to entering a profession that is in great demand.  Across the country, there are over 20,000 openings for staff nurses to work in hospitals, clinics, home care, private practice, schools, military service, occupational settings, and health and wellness centers.\n\nEntry-level nursing positions start in the range of $35,000 to $50,000 with additional compensation for overtime, night and weekend work.  Given the nationwide nursing shortage, employers often “sweeten the pie” by providing sign-on bonuses of $3,000 to $6,000 along with up to $5,000 in reimbursed relocation expenses. In addition to competitive salaries, employers typically offer benefits packages that include health insurance, vacation and holiday pay, college tuition reimbursement, childcare allowance, flexible scheduling, and pension plans.\n\nThe nursing profession offers many challenges and significant rewards to those who enter the field devoted to the calling of relieving human suffering and dedicated to advancing their career.  Although it is not difficult finding a job as a new graduate, it does take careful planning to carve out a career as a distinguished Registered Nurse.  Here are some practical pointers to accomplish that goal:\n\nProvide quality patient care.  This is what your training has prepared you for as a personal caregiver and valuable member of a medical team.  Be diligent in establishing a reputation for providing quality patient care and supporting your health organization’s mission.  Along with demonstrating core competencies, develop the “people skills” required for you to work comfortably with all types of patients, physicians and other medical staff. \nStay on the cutting edge of medical knowledge.  To maintain state licensure and remain in good standing with your employer, you will need to accumulate a number of Continuing Nurse Education credits (CNE’s) each year.  In addition to acquiring CNE’s through formal classroom instruction, why not take advantage of the numerous online opportunities for CNE training?  (As one example, check out what’s offered on Nursingcenter.com:  www.nursingcenter.com/ce/index.cfm). \n\nTo stay abreast of medical advancements, trends and social issues that impact the nursing field, take time to regularly read professional publications like Nursing 2001, RN Journal, NurseWeek, RN Magazine, and Journal of the National Black Nurses Association.  Some have online versions that you can easily access at your leisure and convenience.\n\nBecome more “culturally competent.”  Nurses, like physicians and other health practitioners, are challenged to provide care to patient populations that are becoming increasingly culturally diverse.  One way to achieve this goal is to take advantage of any in-service training related to heightening cultural sensitivity, working with language translators, and so on.  More ambitious RN’s might also consider learning “medical Spanish” in order to better relate to the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States—persons of Hispanic/Latino background.  (One example of a medical Spanish program is found at www.idrama.com/MedSpan.htm). \n\nNetwork with other medical professionals. Topping the list would be other RN’s who have distinguished themselves in their field.  Networking contacts can also include nurse educators, career strategists, and nurse entrepreneurs (such as Nurse Legal Consultants), who can all provide valuable perspectives on career advancement issues.  Another important avenue for networking is to become involved in one or more professional associations, such as the American Nurses Association and the National Black Nurses Association.  The contacts, information sharing, and career resources these associations offer are invaluable for RN’s who are serious about career advancement. \nMake yourself more marketable.  Like other professi
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Advanced Practice Nurses.. Reaad on, i have a lot of info :)\n\nLicensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) are also known as Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVNs) in California and Texas. These individuals usually have eighteen months to two years of training in anatomy and physiology, medications, and practical patient care. They must pass state or national boards and renew their license periodically.\n\nLPNs can perform simple as well as complex medical procedures but must operate under the supervision of either a Registered Nurse or a physician. They can administer most medications (usually with the exception of IV push medications), perform measurements (blood pressure, temperature, etc.), keep records, perform CPR, maintain sterile and isolation conditions, and administer basic care.\n\nLPNs are often found working under the supervision of physicians in clinics. In long term care facilities, they sometimes supervise nursing assistants and orderlies.\n\nThe Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were about 700,000(1) persons employed as Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses in the U.S. in 2004.\n\nRegistered Nurses (RNs) are professional nurses who often supervise the tasks performed by LPNs, orderlies and nursing assistants. They provide direct care and make decisions regarding plans of care for individuals and groups of healthy, ill and injured people. They have a Diploma, Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree in Nursing at entry level, and after passing state board examininations are granted the title Registered Nurse. Regardless of degree, RNs have many hours of clinical experience before they are graduated.\n\nRNs are the largest group of healthcare workers in the U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were about 2.3 million (1) persons employed as Registered Nurses in the U.S. in 2004.\n\nResearch has shown that RNs are the first-line defense of hospitalized patients against disability or death from infection, cardiopulmonary arrest, and other serious complications. Higher ratios of registered nurses to patients have been shown to decrease certain complications of illness and mortality rates. Registered Nurses are educators, managers, executives, therapists, intensive care experts, symptom managers, professional mentors, researchers and community members. In hospitals, registered nurses perform diverse roles such as writing policies, responding to emergencies, managing professional, technical and ancillary staff, determining budgets, performing strategic planning, and supervising construction projects.\n\nAdvanced practice nurses (APNs) are Registered Nurses with advanced education, knowledge, skills, and scope of practice. APNs possess a master's or doctoral degree in nursing and may also sit for additional certification examinations. APNs may function as a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM), nurse practitioner (NP), clinical nurse specialist (CNS) or Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). They perform primary health care, provide mental health services, diagnose and prescribe, carry out research, and educate the public and other professionals. Some APNs diagnose illness and prescribe medication.\n\nAll advanced practice credentials have requirements such as continuing education and periodic re-examination to maintain the credential.\n\nAdvanced Practice Nurses can expect to earn above-average salaries, especially as the population of ages and the demand for highly-skilled healthcare workers grows proportionally.\n\nGood Luck! :)
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My Mom and 2 sisters are nurse,none of them in 1960,but I'd have to say that whatever the wages were then are the same as now---NOT ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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My wife is a nurse and all her friends are nurses. All I can say is, they all have job security like you wouldn't believe. If they quit one job today, they can pick from 10 jobs tomorrow. Huge shortage of nurses also means that you can better negotiate your wages and benefits. Good luck! :)
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I am a nurse in CA but it really depends not only on where you live but where you work.  If you work nights you'll always make a differential over what you would working days... I make a great wage in CA but because I specialize in ICU I make more than if I were to work on the med/surg floor...also it depends how long you have been a nurse... You have to remember that in exchange for the good salary we give up alot too....hospitals do not close for weekends or holidays....and should the census be low you might get sent home.... I have missed more than my share of my childrens school plays, soccer games, music/choir assemblies...
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depends what kind of nurse butt,,any where between $17/ 50.00 hr
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The system as it exists today forces families to place their elderly loved ones in nursing homes.  It is a racket.  If my mother would have been allowed to pay me just half what medicaid is having to pay the nursing home I could have afforded to quit my job and stay home so my mother could have continued to live with us.  Instead as law dictates, when she required more care than we could offer while remaining employed she was forced to go to a nursing home where in just 4 months all of her life savings was depleted.  Now that she is flat broke medicaid will take over paying the nursing home.  Of course it is not a nice posh facility because they want more than medicaid.  My mother has Alzheimer's and it is terrible that she is now surrounded by strangers in a strange place.  The problem I see isn't that medicaid wont pay enough it is that the laws about how she could choose to spend her own money for care are to strict and skewed in nursing facilities favor over family.
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My sister works at one. To hear her talk, it's a place where people put their elderly to die. The people don't receive the proper care due to under staffing, and most of the nurses that work in them don't care very much about the people they are there to take care of.
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I have the perfect website for you \nBLS.GOV\nWhen you go in click on occupational hand book and then type in registered nurse.  It tells you everything about every profession.  How much it is expected to grow in the future, the average salary, the nature of the work and everything.  IF you click on the demographic part it breaks thoe numbers down by regions
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Well it depends what kind of job you want there. My grandmother worked at a nursing home for a long while. It's very hard work. Anyways.. most people need a nurses education to work there.. but I'm not 100% sure.
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I know that there are some very dedicated nurses out there that would do anything to perform with the highest standard.  And certainly I do not wish to compare them to those in customer service, etc.  However, the disrespect, non-compassion performance of most individuals today, is immeasurable.  Our morals, I am sure, are being highly tested.  There are those now coming up with the highest of educations, but clearly lack the compassion that is so desperately needed.  There are good people out there that want to do the right thing, however, the percentage is being measured now just in our daily contacts - and guess what, it is not a pretty picture.  It is a moral issue to do or not to do for mankind.  But I basically think that is what it comes down to.  Whether it is in the nursing area, banking area, you name it.  Sadly, we are failing to meet that which means a better world.  I hope this doesn't sound trite to you, but unfortunately, it is happening.
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I know people who get $35 an hour. LNA's I know make $15. And the LPN I know makes $21 an hour. It does depend on were you live also. But please if you are just getting in to this for money then don't do it. There are enough nurses now that give inadiquit care because they are just there for a pay check and not the patient. This is a very trying job there will be patients you love and patients you despise. There will be days you go home crying and days you will go home smilling. But everyone desreves the best care they can get. No matter what field of health care you are in. If this is something you feel strongly about doing for the reward of helping someone everyday then all the best to you. The nursing community needs good nurses. And the demand for nursing is very high everywhere.
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You guys I'm not trying to be smart a__ but that salarywizard is Not right, especially for the south. It's usually much lower than even the "lowest median salary". I'm not kidding! Call a nursing school at a college such as Emory or Univ. Of Georgia, ask to speak to the Admissions office. Befriend the person, ask who you should speak to- I would think the career adviser. Or i bet the nurses have a society in GA of some type, google this. A Licensed Practical Nurse just starting out is not a Registered Nurse- this would obviously vary greatly where you worked- a nursing home? Home health care? Caring for granny while her kids paid you? $36,000? In rural GA or Atlanta? Get real, there's no way to quantify this via an internet site. You need to talk to girlfriend nurses in the town where you are applying. I had a client this year who worked doing nursing tasks in a nursing home in a mid-sized city in AL. She had a lot of experience. I don't know if she was a L.P.N. but she made exactly minimum wage. Don't shoot the messenger, lol...