Re: How often do EMS crews show up to your dept unannounced? Originally Posted by OldnurseRN 
From most of the posts it's easy to see that most of you are in big EDs. We are a critical access hospital with 2 ED beds and 2 PACU beds that we can fill and 1 procedure room. We have 3 nurses on duty, 2 may be LPNs and we are also the floor nurses, the registration people, the RT techs and everything else ... we are IT!
I did some agency shifts in a 8 bed ER once and i thought that was strange and they always had a doc, secretary/tech and 2 nurses. The hospital only had 22 beds--you walked around the corner to give report to the "ICU" which was basically a telemetry floor or the other hall was med/surg. I was used to either a 40 or 80 bed trauma center...quite the culture shock. It must be tough in a whole different way for you.
BTW, I have yet to receive an apology from the crew I complained about but I'm pretty sure they hate me...but hey, the have called report every time! Now if I could just get them to start lines and give more adequate care...:-)
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