How busy is your unit this Christmas?

[RunningWithScissors]

I don't know about you, but our census has NOT dropped all week, including today. For every patient we dischaged another was admitted.

The general medicine, surgery, and oncology floors all were half empty, only us and ICU were almost maxed out at capacity, with high acuities as well.

Don't you know the bosses all left early well before noon on Friday only to return on WEDNESDAY, because the hospital made the day AFTER Christmas an "unofficial" holiday for them, but if regular staff try to take ETO, it is forbidden by hospital policy (none allowed the day before or the day after).

:icon_eek:

[suzy253, RN]

Med Surg/Step Down Telemetry unit on Christmas Eve: had several discharges previous few days but we're filled now.

[nursesaideBen]

I work on a medical care unit we had 12-13 pts xmas eve and day not bad but the ones we had were either isolation, confused and determined to fall, or ringing the call light every five seconds :trout: last night was the busiest of the two ran ALL night when I got home I thought my feet were going to fall off lol PCU had 10 pts and CCU had 4.