8hr daily sched of a rn

SuzieVN · Apr 2, 2013

What RN? you didn't mention what the job is. DON? Charge? Floor?

soonrn2527 · Apr 2, 2013

What RN? you didn't mention what the job is. DON? Charge? Floor?

Its Staff RN in skilled facility. I got interviewed with the DON and she was asking me what to do in my 8 hr shift.Can anyone tell me your sample task you usually did as a nurse.

SuzieVN · Apr 2, 2013

Get report

Make rounds

Prep people for BKFST, assist as needed

Med pass, 2-4 hours

Treatments

Charting throughout the shift, on various forms

Admit patients

Discharge patients

Take calls all day

Call doctors for orders, etc. and call families to keep them abreast

Deal with falls, deaths, etc.

Lunch prep, assist to feed set up as needed

Second med pass after lunch

Treatments, charting, cleaning up and stocking and prepping for the next shift

And hoping you don't get an admit 10 minutes before 3PM...

Depends also- do you have the whole schebang? A med nurse? Tx, nurse? Lot of variables to the scenario,

soonrn2527 · Apr 2, 2013

Get report
Make rounds
Prep people for BKFST, assist as needed
Med pass, 2-4 hours
Treatments
Charting throughout the shift, on various forms
Admit patients
Discharge patients
Take calls all day
Call doctors for orders, etc. and call families to keep them abreast
Deal with falls, deaths, etc.
Lunch prep, assist to feed set up as needed
Second med pass after lunch
Treatments, charting, cleaning up and stocking and prepping for the next shift
And hoping you don't get an admit 10 minutes before 3PM...
Depends also- do you have the whole schebang? A med nurse? Tx, nurse? Lot of variables to the scenario,

Thank you..it such a great helped..I already had 3 interview but the DON said she will give me a call tomorrow and she will ask me again about those things.

SuzieVN · Apr 2, 2013

More points to ponder- if you DO have med nurse or tretament nurse or whatnot, are they replaced if they call in sick? I'd ask about that. It could really throw you for a LOOP. Also, does the place have trachs/vents? IVs? Maybe you're going to be the charge nurse only?

soonrn2527 · Apr 2, 2013

More points to ponder- if you DO have med nurse or tretament nurse or whatnot are they replaced if they call in sick? I'd ask about that. It could really throw you for a LOOP. Also, does the place have trachs/vents? IVs? Maybe you're going to be the charge nurse only?[/quote']
As I know they dont hve treatment nurse or med suge nurse just a charge nurse only..and the nurse patient ratio is 1:35

SuzieVN · Apr 2, 2013

If that's the case, all of the above in my first post apply, and may god be with you? I will assume the place is very acute, with IVs, and the like, for them to pay an RN to work the floor. A load of 35 is even more than I have ever had, in 30 years.

Exude energy, and ambition. Good luck~

AngelRN27 · Apr 2, 2013

Great points from Suzie. Pretty much covered it all.

Btw, having an RN as staff nurse doesn't necessarily correlate with the acuity of the facility. I work the floor at my SNF and our facility does not really have many acute residents. Occasionally I'll have 2 or 3 IV Abx and maybe some wound care to do. Apart from that, no vents, trachs, chests, or otherwise. Pretty standard SNF.

JBMmom, MSN, NP · Apr 2, 2013

Our facility is acting seeking out RNs for floor positions. I'm on a long-term care floor, low acuity, 30 residents. May not be the most clinically challenging, but I'm working on my time management skills. I believe that after a certain amount of time, all RNs in our facility are expected to be supervisors, so maybe with more RNs, the supervisor will have less to do (we're 120 beds, so if it's one supervisor for the whole building sometimes they're slammed).