Who does your pt assignments? - Page 2

The oncoming charge. They will give you the same patients if you have same ones there again.

the charge nurse from the previous shift makes the assignment for my med/surg job. For my L&D job, we meet at the beginning of shift and pow wow and decide who we want/request patients. Typically if we've delivered a mom/baby from the previous shift, we will take them post partum and pick up 2 more mom/baby couplets. If we've done post partum for the past few shifts, we switch to labor. It works really well.

The on-coming charge makes the assignments. If we were there the night before, they usually ask us if we want our patients back.