Some people see them every day, others may see them only a few times a year. Whether we constantly are appreciating their work or not nurses are always working to make sure we, as patients, are kept under the best care possible. As patients we may not see all that goes on during a shift. While we're sleeping or watching TV and pressing the call button for food, water, or a heated blanket the nurses on shift are constantly going from room to room, place to place throughout the hospital getting what their patients have requested. Nationally, the nurse to patient ratio in certain parts of the hospital is set at a minimum of 1:6 (Tevington). This shows that in a recovery section of a hospital a nurse can have at least 6 patients in one shift.
