Hourly rounding. Are you kidding me?

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I don't think it's physically possible for one nurse with seven patients to do so. Most places share the job with a CNA, so it is really every two, which is consistently doable most days. But if it's just the nurse with seven pts? C'mon!

Why does administration think that a meaningful round is a minute per room? Sometimes, I'll walk away from a patients room after 15 minutes (toile ting, answering questions, getting water, calling dietary because the pt is unhappy with the food). And that is someone who is stable!

Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

What I hate about that video is that it presents hourly rounding as a "fluff your pillows" task. Um, I round on my patients to make sure they are still breathing...

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.
It is impossible. If you have 7 patients, that is spending less than 10 minutes in each room when you go there for your "hourly rounding" and gives NO time for charting. Ridiculous.

We do hourly rounding but it's actually every other because the PCT does it also. We take turns odds/evens.

Seven patients, three minutes each is 21 minutes an hour, every hour. Depending on anxiety level, how the unit is laid out, need for toileting, cuts service type requests, at 10 minutes each hour, you have now spent 70 minutes on a round, and you have to start all over again.

"a time study was done" said no admin ever.

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Specializes in hospice.

That video is worthy of criminal charges. Also, don't the people who participated realize that it now exists on the internet forever? With their name badges visible? *headdesk*

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