Hospice Oncall Staffing

AtlantaRN, RN · Feb 18, 2011

one on call nurse and one backup....then we do a phone tree, manager of clinical practice, then branch director backs us up....our census is 60+

SoCalRN1970 · Feb 20, 2011

With a census if 150... and in a rural area. One runner is a very low staffing ratio IMHO. Usually at about 100 two runners should be used. But that is different from office to office.

We currently have 100 patients. 2 runners and a triage team. There are other nurses available if it gets hairy on the weekend.

CJsGirlRN · Feb 24, 2011

Our agency has a full time on-call nurse. Her job is basically to be on-call 5 days a week. Then the rest of the nurses just fill in the other days. Most of us only have to be on-call about once a month. We are very lucky!!

curiousauntie · Mar 3, 2011

We have 2 on call nurses. They work 7 days on/7 days off. They are salaried but are offered the chance to get extra if they do visits or admissions on their week off. This works well as the full time nurses only need to take call on week day holidays as the office is closed and the on call is off during the day. The full timers used to have to pick up the call and we were on call 2 to 3 nights a week and part of the weekend, every other week, which was killing us! We agreed to have a larger case load to have 2 on call nurses.

tewdles, RN · Mar 5, 2011

250+ pts. Dedicated on-call nurses for after 1700, w/e, and holidays. Dedicated telephone triage nurses, we pay a service provider for these professionals.

okielpn75, ASN, RN · Mar 22, 2011

We only have a census of 40. We have 3 LPN's who take all the call. We are also the primary care nurses during regular business hours. We rotate weekends so some months we have two weekends. We usually have one to two weeknights. We do not have an answering service. The nurse who is on call also does triage. There is supposed to be an RN back up but they are rarely available so the LPN is on her own.