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If a corporation can have rights, why can't an AI? Don't corporations hold patents? Why can't someone arrange a LLC or otherwise incorporate , and name the AI a director?

On Med-Surg, 1:5 is a good number for dayshift, with actual supporting disciplines in place (nursing assistants, unit clerks, lab, dietary, housekeeping and all the other resources that keep a hospital functioning). It's when the ancillary staff are stripped away that 1:5 becomes about the max a nurse can manage, but that becomes far tougher the more sick the patients are. Night shifts should be able to take another patient, d/t the expectation that patients are asleep, but there's also less resources than on dayshift for managing emergent events and the commonplace events that suck up your time.

ICU should generally be 1:1 or 1:2 at the absolute max.

ER can run at like 6 or 7, but that's if everything is functioning as it should, patients are moving to units after triage and treatment, not becoming ERmed-surg residents.

ICU, you really don't want to fuck around with those ratios, because those patients are so unstable that failing to monitor them every few minutes could be fatal.

Right, I meant to explain ER at 6-7 is like urgent care, treat and street levels, not Level 2+ Traumas Bay, Cardiac or other unstable patients.

Hasn't everybody at this point?

I'm sorry, I did not indicate that at all, you're right.

Traumas, Cardiac and Codes obviously different. I was thinking of treat and street level of care.