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1. Patient assignments - Are nurses assigned to empty beds

   LearningAboutNursing replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in General Nursing

   Maybe create buckets for different patients based on their acuity levels. Start with the patients with highest acuity levels and consider all my expert nurses first for those patients (keeping in mind the ones that took care of the patient previously...

2. Patient assignments - Are nurses assigned to empty beds

   LearningAboutNursing replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for all the great input. I really appreciate it. How does one ensure they are doing the best assignments? Say, a charge nurse has a list of caregivers that are working for the next shift and has a list of patients/beds that these caregivers ne...

3. What are some of the things being done to reduce readmissions?

   LearningAboutNursing replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in Student Assist

   Please share your input/thoughts.

4. What are some of the things being done to reduce readmissions?

   LearningAboutNursing replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in Student Assist

   Discharge planning, remote monitoring, post discharge calls and visits etc are some of the few things that come up as part of my research. Different hospitals are doing it differently and seeing different impacts by utilizing some of the above mentio...

5. Patient assignments - Are nurses assigned to empty beds

   LearningAboutNursing replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks, that's very helpful. I had a few more questions - Does it ever happen that the patient needs to moved from one bed to another within the unit? If so, what happens to their assignment - does the nurse follow the patient? or a new nurse is assi...

6. What are some of the things being done to reduce readmissions?

   LearningAboutNursing posted a topic in Student Assist

   I am wondering what hospitals are doing currently to reduce readmissions? How does one identify what is not working for their hospital/department/unit and leading to readmissions?

7. Patient assignments - Are nurses assigned to empty beds

   LearningAboutNursing replied to LearningAboutNursing's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for the comments. In cases where the nurses are assigned to empty beds, how does one ensure that the nurse that was initially assigned to the empty bed is still the appropriate one based on the incoming patient's acuity? Does a CN need to con...

8. Patient assignments - Are nurses assigned to empty beds

   LearningAboutNursing posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi, I am trying to understand how the nurse patient assignment works. Can you please shed some light on how the assignment process works? Are nurses assigned to empty beds - If known there is a patient that might come in or irrespective? Thanks in ad...