What's your patient load?

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in Med Surg, Specialty.

Including transfers, admits, and mid-shift pick ups, how many total patients are you responsible for during the day? Please include your unit and shift. Thanks! :)

Med Surg

6-8, days

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Specializes in Fall prevention.

I work med/surg mostly post surgery and a few gi pt from time to time. We never have more than 6 at 1 time. I have had days where that i have discharge 5 pts and gotten 5 new ones. It sounds rough be we have a float nurse that floats over the whole unit and will go from admit to admit so it is not really so bad. It is so much better than where i used to work where we would have 8-10 med/surg pts at a time and more if we did not refuse without a tech talk about crazy.

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I can't imagine having 6-8 patients on days. That's nuts.

Post surgical. Days/eves 4-5. Nights never more than 7.

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Specializes in med/sug/onc/geri.

Med-Surg, days, 4-8 (usually 5-6). Our grid varies tremendously. :rolleyes: Nights is usually 8-10, can be 6-12.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

MedSurg:

Days-6-8

Nights-7-8

Free charge on Days, Charge takes load on nights. No ADT.

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Specializes in Family Practice/Primary Care.

The nurses on my Med-Surge floor generally have 4 on days, and 5 or 6 on nights. Days has a free float RN, plus more CNAs, but they have to do baths and whatnot.

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Specializes in med-surg.

med surg days 7-7 load 4-6

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Specializes in Med Surg, ICU, Tele.

Where I work we do POD nursing. It would be and RN, LPN, and an AIDE. on a good day we have 11-12. I have to do all assessments, discharges and admissions, along with pushes. When our census is high we can have up to 15/16 pts. It is crazy sometimes. I really would prefer primary nursing. Oh i work med/surg/tele 11am to 11pm

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Specializes in Onco, palliative care, PCU, HH, hospice.

I work med/surg oncology,

For dayshift it's typically 4-6 pts charge with no patients, 2-3 aides and a secretary

For night shift it's 5-8, sometimes 1 aide, no secretary, sometimes charge will take no patients in order to help out.

It can get pretty hairy at times, oncology and medsurg patients aren't a good mix, giving IGG in one room, blood in another, plasma in another, another is getting chemo, a post cardiac cath patient at the end of the hall, an ETOH abuser going through detox, and another patient admitted for a pain crisis don't make for a good shift lol

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Transplant, Education.

I have up to 8 if all my beds are full--I work TCU (Short Term/Rehab), evening shift.

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