pmary45

I want to know how different hospitals do hourly rounding. I currently work on a telemetry unit and manage 6-7 patients a day, doing am care, dressing changes, wound care, medications ( which each patient usually have 10-20 pills and IV's), patient teaching (medication, discharge instructions and anything else they need), computer charting, written charting and speak with various departments and md's. I also need to accompany any patient that goes off the floor for testing. This is in an acute care hospital. We are expected to do rounding on 16-17 patients, not our own, we are scheduled once a day. I know this doesn't sound like a lot but take into consideration all the other things that you are doing and the fact that you still do rounds on your own patients all day and the fact that it can take close to an 1 1/2 to do those daily hourly rounds. How does your hospital want you to do hourly rounds?