Floating all the time, very low census

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I work in a 16 bed CCU and are census has been incredibly low this year, to a point where the unit was closed for a while. Are there any of you that are experiencing a low census period. It is becoming very disheartening for all of us at work, after all if I wanted to be in the float pool I would. :rotfl:

Specializes in NICU, PICU, educator.

Black cat :chuckle

Ah, winter is over and all the chest pains are gone :chuckle My girlfriend works CCU and says they always have a nice lul between really cold weather and hot weather.

I hate to float :p I am sure we are amusing to those poor kiddies on the peds floors though :chuckle

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.

Cramp packed overflowing into recovery room, ER holding critical care patients, med-surg patients unable to get beds in a reasonable amount of time. Nurses tripled in critical care units. No problem here.

But during our "off season" which is summer in this part of Florida we experience a drop in census. Sometimes we close down units for repair, cleaning and painting at that time.

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I work in a 16 bed CCU and are census has been incredibly low this year, to a point where the unit was closed for a while. Are there any of you that are experiencing a low census period. It is becoming very disheartening for all of us at work, after all if I wanted to be in the float pool I would. :rotfl:

I just left a community hospital because of low census in our CCU. Dont know what happened to all of the patients but I too, was either floating or cancled. I now work at a large Trauma instituation and that will NEVER happen...

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When I worked a PURE CCU late april into may way always low census. In fact we had closed the 10 bed unit several times, a few days each time.

I now work in a mixed CCU/micu, 28 beds, only 14 patients two days ago, only one cardiac.

My heart transplant unit, which does take overflow, only has two off service cardiac's, we're usually full with CHF'rs.

I'm NE.

I remember when I first went through this I was afraid... loosing vacation days to substitute pay, then I started floating when able to other areas. Usually the house was having low census too. It WILL pass,

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Texas here. low census too. Some staff are already complaining of not completing there hours (80 hrs), PTO already used up.

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