bettirn

I think maybe it sounds like your TCU is more of a subacute floor. Ours is for patients that are discharged from the hospital, but not able to go home. We do agressive PT and OT rehab, as well as skilled care.

I currently work in a 10 bed TCU. Recently our manager commented that she believes we are over delivering care. Go figure. We work 12 hr. shifts and we head to toe assess our patients once per shift....twice a day. We obtain v.s. every 8 hours additionally. Due to some staffing crunch issues she thinks it may lighten our load if we could assess once a day and prn of course and change our v.s. to once a day. I volunteered to be part of a committee to investigate and see if we do have to do things as often as we are. The problem is that I am having a hard time finding any concrete answers anywhere. Does anyone know of a website or some source of info. to find these things out. Thanks in advance. Betsey