bsnursing

Our ratios are 5:1 on days and 6:1 on nights, I would not call that an awesome ratio especially having to make time to pick up patients from the ED while having to perform the necessary tasks on the floor also. The purpose of this -as management has described- is supposedly to improve patient's wait time, familiarize the patient with the nurse before arriving to the floor, and lastly so the floor nurse can physically see the patient before they arrive to the floor and determine if the patient is fit for the floor . I've been finding that the patients wait time has increased. And shouldn't the admitting doctors and ER staff be best to determine if the patient should be sent to a certain floor or another?

Does anyone else do bedside shift report with your emergency department? Meaning you, the RN/LPN: goes to the emergency department and receives verbal report about your patient from ED RN then you transfers your patient to your unit? If you do, what are your thoughts? What are your procedures? If you don't, I'd still appreciate your thoughts about it.