New Admissions

[critical thinker]

Hello, Curious as to how other facilities do their admission procedure, do you have an admission coordinator that handles most of the paper work, or do the "floor" nurses handle to whole thing? Thanks

[NurseKatie08, MSN]

On our subacute floor, it's all about teamwork. There are typically three nurses on with an 8-9 bed assignment each. If one of us has an admit and the others aren't busy they help out putting in orders/doing a little paper work/ordering labs etc. Typically the primary nurse for the patient does the assessment though, since you're the one who has to give report on the person. I'm gearing up for a ton of admits tomorrow since my team's census is down :-(

[kdhnursern]

Our 120 bed facility has 4 Primary Care Nurses- of which I am one- who each has 40 beds. We do the admits for our beds. We also do discharges, doctor rounds, faxes to doctors, liaison between doctors and families, .......etc. And I love my job!