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I work on a 30 neuroscience inpatient unit at a large university teaching hospital. Our unit has become very busy with days having about a 60-75% turn over. My staff is exhausted at the end of the day because of the this turn over. We are looking at ways to improve pt care and take better care of ourselves. One thought has been to change our shift times, right now we are doing 12hrs 7a-730pm and 7p-730am. Would like to hear what other units are doing with their shift timesTY
dm
I also work at a large hospital, and came from a larger university teaching hospital working critical care prior to that. What I love about my hospitals system is that they team every nurse with a CNA called a Care Partner. Care Partners take vital signs, empty foleys, record blood sugars, record I&O's and really work as a partner with the RN. I value my care partners so much and there are two specifically that I like working with so I will schedule myself to work with them because I trust their judgment and I know they give quality care, and ultimately it makes my day so much easier. I work 7a to 7p and with a good care partner system, it makes things so much easier. I can then concentrate on focused assessment and time with my patients.
Hope that offers a suggestion or at least some insight
for a 75% turn over rate it sounds like extra nurses would help. Especially if all the discharges and admits are on the same shift. I have done both 7-7:30, and 6:45-7:15 days and nights, and I like the 6:45 to 7:15 shift better. For some reason I have found that I leave work on time more often.
Michelle
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I work on a 30 neuroscience inpatient unit at a large university teaching hospital. Our unit has become very busy with days having about a 60-75% turn over. My staff is exhausted at the end of the day because of the this turn over. We are looking at ways to improve pt care and take better care of ourselves. One thought has been to change our shift times, right now we are doing 12hrs 7a-730pm and 7p-730am. Would like to hear what other units are doing with their shift times
TY
dm