Average # of admissions and discharges per shift

[noyesno]

On my floor (ortho/neuro/trauma), the turn around seems to be really quick. I usually discharge half my team during my eight hour shift and get a couple of admissions to replace the discharges.

My (day) shift goes like this:

-Start with 6 patients

-Discharge 2 or 3 of them

-Get 1 or 2 admissions

I'm curious to see if this is typical for most floors.

How many admissions and discharges do you average during your shift?

What specialty do you work?

What shift (days, PM's or nights)?

Thanks!

noyesno

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Our staff is lucky. I do all the admits and discharges on a 23 bed unit. That is OBS, ICU and M/S in a critical access hospital. A slow day would be 6 discharges. One day I discharged 13 patients. Most of the time these are difficult admits, not somebody going straight home. Very time consuming. Admits, are usually the same out of patients that we discharged. It makes for a crazy day when that happens.