Do nurse practioners round with doctors?

[RN to be soon]

My title is my question. Do nurse practioners round with physiciana in the morning and check on patients?

[guest769224]

Some do, some don't. Depends on the setting. More so with inpatient.

[Pangea Reunited, ASN, RN]

From what I've seen, it's usually one or the other- not both.

[elkpark]

Some do -- and some round by themselves, instead of a physician rounding.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Moved to the Nurse Practitioners forum.

[SilleLu]

Most of ours split up the list then Dr. will sign off on patients the NP saw. I almost never see them together.

[Riburn3, BSN, MSN, APRN, NP]

In the inpatient setting it's more common. More specifically, if you are employed by the facility proper, you will commonly round with the physicians as they come in since you likely have seen the patients earlier and can give them a better idea of what's going on. If you work for a physician as part of their practice but do inpatient rounding, its probably less common.

I am employed by a hospital and work with all the cardiologists that work in the hospital. My day typically consists of rounding on the patients myself fairly early and dictating my notes. When one of the cardiologists shows up, I'll round with them on the patients we share, giving them a heads up on what's going on. I'm basically there to streamline the process for them, conveniently give orders so the cardios are interrupted during procedures, and I drastically improve patient flow. For my side job that I have with an internal medicine physician, I almost never round with him since we have different hours, and he typically will show up well after I rounded.

[sjalv]

I work in a CVICU and the NP's round with the intensivists almost always. However, the surgical NP's do not usually round with the interventional cardiologists/CV surgeons. They do that solo.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

When I'm in the hospital, we (nephrologists) and I split the pts up and I see the dialysis pts and he sees some other pts and then sometimes we round together if we have something interesting - otherwise we kinda go our separate ways.

[Jules A, MSN]

I don't ever. I have admitting privileges, carry my own patient load and round independently.

[Graduatenurse14]

Some of the surgeons round with the PA's/NP's who work in their specialty fairly often. They seem to see everyone equally not just the more complex cases.

Also, the surgeons who round with them the most are:

The most experienced (30+yrs) as well as being one of the oldest (60+yrs old) surgeons AND the least experienced (2 yrs) and probably the youngest of the surgeons (35ish yrs old.) I find that interesting.

[db2xs]

At my hospital, the hematology primary teams consist of physicians and nurse practitioners and/or physician assistants. They usually round together, except on the weekends. I usually never see the medical-oncology teams round together; they tend to see the patients individually, i.e., only the MD or only the NP or PA.