Inpt NPs - how many attgs do you work with?

[jah359]

For inpatient NPs who require physician collaboration, up to how many attendings do you work with in any given shift?

For example, on a weekend I could potentially cover 5 patients with up to 5 different attendings, and so would theoretically need to round or communicate with 5 attendings throughout the day. Anyone else have a staffing model like this? Aside from being cumbersome and inefficient, I'm looking for reasons as to why we should limit the number of attendings whose patients we cover.

Thanks,

Jenny

[Corey Narry, MSN, RN, NP]

Currently, I work with one attending each day I am scheduled. I'm in the ICU, so it's just the intensivist and myself. I previously worked in a CTICU where we rounded with 3 Cardiac Surgeons on all their patients so in theory, we were collaborating with all 3 at one given time. However, weekends were covered by just one surgeon who is on call for all the patients. Would an on-call attending model work for your weekends?