Cary_Rn

There are some good hospitals in Madison. PRN nursing agency in Spring Prairie is a good place to start if you want to do agency. Other areas might be an option. There is Stoughton Hospital, smaller but nice. Janesville is about 30 min south of Madison, Mercy Hospital is nice and have 16 bed ICU. Beloit Hospital in Beloit, where I currently work is bigger than Stoughton but smaller than Mercy but equally nice. Just some ideas of what you could look into. Just more options even if I am partial to Beloit. The turn over is low with really good nurse to pt ratio. In Beloit's icu, vent pt's typically 1-1 or if stable 2-1, dt pts 1-1, otherwise depends on pt censous and acutity, some really good nurses to work with too.

Where I work, we use room assignments at my one job and dont at the other. I seem to find I like the room assignment option. We have a specific set of room assignments we use each day. My ER has 1-4 cardiac beds 5-7 general medical, peds, ent, gyn, and othro, we also have 3 basic urgent care rooms a,b,c and the trauma room that is not assigned generally. Our max staffing for the er is 5 nurses during the week and 6 nurses on the weekend. And usually 1 secretary and 1 er tech, our room assignments go as follows. 5 nurses 1, A - Charge nurse 2, 5, ortho, ent 3,7, peds, c 4, 6, gyn, b triage with 6 nurses, 1, ent - Charge nurse 2,5, ortho, 3,7, peds 4,6,gyn a,b,c triage. I like this you are typically not suck with the same room every day of the week. the triage nurse decides which pt goes in what room and if needed consults with the charge nurse. If we happen to have a good triage nurse she will divide up the rooms appropriatly, and not give one nurse 2 pts back to back unless she has to and the triage nurse with come out and talk with you about how busy you are and give you a heads up. Last year I believe our census for the year was around 35,000. AT my other job the 2 nurses on for a small rural hospital take turns with pt. it is a 10 room er with a trauma room. I personally perfer the room assignment aspect and works well with the enviroment and pt complaints we usually have.