I am looking for RNs who work in the hospitals who are familiar with and or worked as an admissions nurse. I am currently working on creating a position for our hospital and would like some input as to what works and what doesn't. We are a hospital with approx. 100 beds and we will be having 1 RN working the hours of 11-1930 as an admissions nurse Monday-Friday. Our plan is to have the RN based out of the ER and to start the admission process in the ER and then follow the patient to the inpatient unit to finish up the admitting work and then to transfer the care to a unit based RN. Direct admits would go to the apporpriate unit and the admissions nurse would come to the unit to admit the patient.
Anyone out there doing a similar process that you could make suggestions?
yes, I am still looking for info on admission nurse and would love to see your info.
Julie
i work in kansas city missouri. this is a new position. the goal is to expedite paitent care upon admission. good goal, but not there yet. there is only one nurse available. we usually admit direct admissions first then er. not all the floors utlize us. we work under the admission director or nursing sup. i work 11a-11p. i found other hospitals on website that have the same program. unsure on how they run theirs. typically, we go to the patients room and begin the admission process. attempting to initatate immediate medications etc. i think this is a great concept, but there needs to be a better way to do it. any thoughts??
Our admission nurses are based in the ED to expedite the paperwork, get IV's and labword etc started when there aren't beds available on the units and the stay in the ED is going to be long. If the ED doesn't need them (when pts are moving out quickly), the nursing supervisor can call them to help out with admissions on whichever unit is getting slammed. They don't get pulled to take assignments or other work, just admissions. It helps throughput a little, but we still get the occasional backup when the hospital is full. In my dream world, there would be an admissions nurse for each unit....
rml214
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i work in kansas city missouri. this is a new position. the goal is to expedite paitent care upon admission. good goal, but not there yet. there is only one nurse available. we usually admit direct admissions first then er. not all the floors utlize us. we work under the admission director or nursing sup. i work 11a-11p. i found other hospitals on website that have the same program. unsure on how they run theirs. typically, we go to the patients room and begin the admission process. attempting to initatate immediate medications etc. i think this is a great concept, but there needs to be a better way to do it. any thoughts??