Nurses New Nurse
Published Jul 13, 2017
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CCRN2BE
60 Posts
Just wanted to say I can totally relate to the patient assignment thing. There were so many times at my previous job (ICU) where a nurse would have 2 incredibly sick and very busy patients, while another would have 2 that required much less hands on care, all because of the room numbers. It was all about the room numbers! I never could understand what the big deal was....I really don't mind walking a few extra feet between my assigned rooms if it means the workload is more evenly distributed so as to not overwhelm any one person. I know in a critical care setting, you don't want to give any one nurse 2 patients on opposite sides/ends of the unit, but come on! Where I work now does a much better job of factoring patient acuity into our assignments.