How does your ED handle stocking

[That Guy]

We recently moved to a much larger ER where instead of a centralized area we all pull our supplies from, they are in each room along with a med room. None of these ever get stocked it seems and we are trying to figure out the best way to do it.

Ideally, the higher ups want us to handle our own zones, which I am a fan of as well, but the staff has been meeting it with resistance, mainly stating that nights can stock everything. Just looking for ideas to help and bring to our unit.

[1fastRN]

We have equipment techs that stock a lot of the department. Our patient-care (nursing) techs do a lot of the stocking as well. Nurses are not above stocking either. We live it everyday so if something is missing/running short, we'll stock it or delegate it. Some of the other supplies like IV fluids/tubing are stocked by central-supply/distribution. When we run out of NS in the middle of the night, often a tech or a RN is calling distribution telling them we need fluids STAT. Ah, night shift... the forgotten shift...

Couldn't do it without our equipment techs, they're a life-saver! Our department is so big and busy that they are a necessity.