U.S.A. Texas
Published Dec 4, 2009
prosperouschick
36 Posts
I was just wondering if many hospitals are dealing with the issue of there being a low census. For the past month or two, someone (and sometimes even two of us) routinely has to go home from our unit or gets cancelled and placed on call. I work at a smaller hospital in Central Texas and I wasn't sure if this trend exists in other parts of Texas as well. I am seriously considering looking at PRN work in other cities because I really want to work. Are any of you experiencing this trend at your hospital?? Please share.
RedhairedNurse, BSN, RN
1,060 Posts
yes we are experiencing this as well.
butterbye04
5 Posts
It seems everyone is having this problem.
NurseSarahRN
Yes, I have been being cancelled constantly!
pdmech73
57 Posts
Is this because fewer patients are insured or shorter length of stay in the hospital?
j0nathanv
16 Posts
I used to work at North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio. Our patient census went from a full board of 30 down to 12-15 over the weekend. Beng cancelled and put on call didnt work for me. Additionally, being a Med surge floor we would typicaly run minimal nurses wth each nurse carrying 6 patients with 1 admit.
shah
201 Posts
We had 1 full floor of the hospital shutdown for the entire month of August. When I found a prn job at another hospital, I could not work for more than 4 times in 3 months due to closures. Another hospital in the Bay Area intermttantly closed one out of 3 floors till December. Now there is a pre-holiday surge. I don't know how long will it last.
abbabask
93 Posts
Us too right now.. and I work in a major level 1 trauma center. We're getting cancelled and sent home all the time.
HRGwen
This is surprising to me. We are not experiencing this at Methodist in San Antonio
calif-me
43 Posts
I'm o.k. with it as long as my PTO holds out. I'm hoping to get moved from Med/Surg to Ped by next month. Somtimes the stress in Med/Surg is too much, so i'm glad when i'm called off which has been twice this week already.