Floating=dumping bad patients

[lmc512]

If a mother/baby nurse gets floated to the antepartum/gyn unit what type of pt is an appropriate assignment?

Would a pt there for hyperemesis who is on continuous tube feeding, has a PICC line and is described as drug seeking who happens to be one of those pts no nurse wants twice and appropriate choice?

[richelle362]

When someone is floated to postpartum, they don't take care of the babies. We have to split them up. I think vital signs are not too much to ask.