Safe Staffing In The Workplace

I agree that safe staffing is a big issue in the workforce today. NYSNA is working to get California based safe staffing laws passed in New York State. In Plattsburgh Hospital CVPH, the Med-Surg nurse to patient ratio is 1 to 5, but the groups are arranged by the team leaders (charge nurses) on the floor. Many patient assignments are as fair as possible but it is not uncommon for a nurse to be overwhelmed because 3 out of 5 of the patients are "jumpers" or sometimes you get too many total care patients. I found a chart that shows the haphazardness of scheduling patients to a group, and many things can go wrong, patient needs are just the start of the list and that's mostly what determines a patient assignment (Figure 1).

I do believe