Admission Teams

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Specializes in critical care/tele/emergency.

Hey, just wanted a poll. Does the hospital you work for have an admissions team or does the floor nurse do all the medical history, etc? How large is your hospital? Does it seem to get patients settled in their beds faster and easier? Thanks so much for all info. :nurse:

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As a patient, I've been in the same hospital, coming through the ED, and had it work both ways, depending on how nuts the ED was and how fast they needed to move people through the admissions unit. I prefer to go straight to the floor. And as a nurse, if I got someone with all sorts of assessments from other people, I'd still go through almost the whole admission form and make sure I got as much info as possible. I didn't like working off of other people's assessments. Saw too many 'assumptions' that ended up being wrong.

But, if I had to choose between being on an ED gurney for 12 hours or moving to the adm area's regular beds, park me in the bed. :) It never seemed to get me to a room faster, but OUT of the ED sooner, for which I completely understand the reason.

JMHO :D

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery, Newborn, Antepartum.

We do our own admissions on our unit. We have a small 75 bed hospital.

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Specializes in Critical Care. CVICU. Adult and Peds PACU..

We have an "ADT RN" on each unit - they do admissions, discharges and transfer paperwork. Our hospital has about 300 beds. They definitely save us time!

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Specializes in Critical Care.

We have an Admit/discharge RN during day hours, swing shift, and also have a stat nurse till night shift and of course have the MRT medical response team. So there has been an improvement over the years which definitely helps!

Also we have a charge nurse supervisor that will help out if things get crazy and even pull sheaths on cath patients, but luckily most sheaths are now pulled out in the cath lab and they use angioseal to close so less chance of bleeding.

What we could use is an extra PCA for all the heavy patients and just to be available to help if a patient goes crazy and we need a sitter. Now that would be a godsend!

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I worked in the ER at a trauma center downtown and we had a nurse that would do admissions during the day, as she was able (there was no way that she could get to them all on some days).

I currently work in a large children's hospital and to my knowledge, there are no admission nurses.

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Most floors at our hospital have their own "admission nurse". We are a medium size hospital. 400 beds. However, on our unit we're "lucky" because our admission nurse stopped doing admissions b/c "it was too much" so we all have to do our own admissions, discharges, and transfers. Our "admission nurse" just make room assignments...even though that's something our PCC, charge nurse, manager, or director could do.

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