I work in a busy ER and there are times when we are so busy and overloaded that we have no room to put patients in. Most often times than not, our monitored beds are often occupied by patients that are waiting to go upstairs because the nurses upstairs are too busy to take report, or actually refuse to take the patient period because they don't have staff, or someother reasons.....becuase of this we've had to put patients in the hallways on monitors. Have some of you encountered this? If so, what have you done to help alleviate this problem? by the way,
supervisors never support the ER (They tell us to hold the patients in the er until the floor are ready to take them), they tend to be more supportive to the floor nurses, floor managers/and floor nurses feel that the ER are chronic complainers and are hostile in general
toward the er staff. I know this happens everywhere, I'm just curious on what your opinions/solutions are for this.
