How Many Patients Each Shift?

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Five questions to answer:

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing?

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other?

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift?

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for?

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed?

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Let's see what response you can throw at me!

Here are my answers -

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? Med/Surg

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Both team and primary

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? With team - 10-14 patient, With primary 5-7 patients

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? Team - 14, Primary - 7

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Good support system of other nurses, daily debriefing with mother (who is also an RN), and sleep

Specializes in Medical Surgical.

Five questions to answer:

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? Surgical with medical overflow

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? When we have the staff it's team nursing, more often than not ALL PRIMARY

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? Typically 4-5

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 7 pts. primary care

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? My fellow co-workers, other nursing friends/family, and sit down and take a deep breath and then get back out there.

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Specializes in Oncology, Med-Surg, Nursery.

Five questions to answer:

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? I am basing these questions on my Med-Surg experience that I just left. I am now in the nursery.

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Primary

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? 5-7, on very rare nights it might get to 8 before the shift ended. That was rare though.

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 8

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Co-workers, taking a deep breath, having a very colorful internal monologue going on in my head. :p

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Specializes in LTC, Dementia/Alzheimer's.

five questions to answer:

1) what type of setting do you perform nursing? long term care (float between: alzheimer's unit, ltc unit, "problem child" unit, & transitional care unit)

2) what type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? team nursing (cna &/or cmt) when pt load is >15, primary otherwise.

2) how many patients do you care for usually per shift? average: 25.

3) what is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 40.

4) what do you do when you feel overwhelmed? if possible, take a 5 minute break, screw my head back on, and return to work. :]

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Specializes in ICU, MedSurg, Medical Telemetry.

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? Medical Telemetry in a magnet hospital

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Primary

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? 4-6 patients

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 6 patients. In 6 months, I'll be able to take on 7 patients.

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? try to stop and organize myself so I can see what tasks need to be done. Ask for advise/help from nurses around me, from my charge

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1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? Neuro ICU

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Primary

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? 2, occasionally 1

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 2 - we're tripled only in rare occasions, and it's never happened to me.

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Ask for help! We have great teamwork on my unit.

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Specializes in Mother Baby & pre-hospital EMS.

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? Stroke/medical floor

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Primary, I think

3) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? 5

4) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 5

5) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? I ask my supervisor/charge nurse for assistance

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Specializes in Adolescent Psych, PICU.

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? RTC Adolescent Psych

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Team; we have 2 RNs, one is charge, one is med nurse

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? 23-27

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 27

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? I rarely feel overwhelmed at this job, I work nights for this reason...lol

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Specializes in ICU, MedSurg, Medical Telemetry.
1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? RTC Adolescent Psych

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Team; we have 2 RNs, one is charge, one is med nurse

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? 23-27

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 27

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? I rarely feel overwhelmed at this job, I work nights for this reason...lol

23-27! Omigosh! That just sounds so overwhelming. Not all at once, right?

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Specializes in Adolescent Psych, PICU.
23-27! Omigosh! That just sounds so overwhelming. Not all at once, right?

Yep all at once, but it's not like what you might think. These are physically healthy teenagers (we have asthma, occasional broken bones from fights, lots of psych meds to pass, etc) but its NOT the same as working in a hospital. At night they pretty much sleep and during the day there is 2 RNs with 3-4 mental health techs.

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, Peds ICU.

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? Neuroscience/Trauma/Surgical ICU

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Primary nursing

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? Usually 2, and occasionally 1 if the patient's higher acuity or I'm open to admit. On rare occasions two nurses to one patient... where the 2nd RN is operating CRRT or a level 1 infuser or something of that nature.

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 2, mandated by law in CA

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? I have a really good support system in the other nurses and our clinical coordinators, so I've always got backup.

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Specializes in NICU Level III.

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? NICU

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Primary - no techs

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? 2

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? 3

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? We have 2 free charges to help.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Oncology.

1) What type of setting do you perform nursing? Medical-Surgical/Oncology (we give inpatient chemo)

2) What type of nursing care do you perform - team nursing, primary nursing, or other? Team nursing - we divide the 36 rooms into "carts", and each cart has one RN, one LPN, and one CNA.

2) How many patients do you care for usually per shift? 9-12, depending on the number of RNs on shift (4 or 3)

3) What is the maximum amount of patients do you care for? Usually not more than 12, though one Saturday we only had 2 RNs, and so we each got 18!

4) What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Ask for help, delegate, make a list of everything I need to do (helps me feel more in control, especially when I know I'm not forgetting something!), sit down and take a timeout!

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