As the title says, if you work inpatient acute facility, what is your patient load? Are you able to round and see people then write notes in an office and be done, or are you on the floor for your whole shift, coordinating tests/consults and dealing with issues that crop up during the day?
Sometimes it seems like my physicians think we just write notes and then sit around all day, but I honestly don't think anything we order would get done if we didn't go tell the nurse after entering the order, then call the test lab to see why our patient hasn't been scheduled, then call the lab to see why our results aren't back, call families to update them, etc etc.
I am just trying to get an idea- it seems like we have more and more inpatients lately but our admin is saying we don't have a high enough census to need more staff. So I'm interested to hear how many patients other NPs take care of on an acute hospital floor, and what your day consists of.
