loftay13

Craymond18, you list all of the jobs you have to do with your 2 patients in a day. I will say two things. 1. I have to do many of the same jobs for my 9-12 patients every day. 2. ICU nurses are very good at delegating the non nursing tasks to healthcare assistants. That is all.

I work on a medical respiratory ward and care for 9 patients on a good day. If we are short staffed however (which is the majority of the time) I look after 12 patients. Its hard work, you are constantly run off your feet and unfortunately you cannot possibly be able to recall every detail about a patient who you are transferring. I can understand why critical care nurses need to have all the information so I do try to have it to hand in advance, but CC nurses do sometimes need to be a little more understanding of the fact that us floor nurses are extremely busy, often caring for several complex care patients aswell as the critical patient whom we are transferring to your care, we can only be in one place at a time and have lots of patients who need us. I'm not trying to criticize anyone, we should all have more respect and understanding for one anothers roles, after all we are a team and there is no 'I' in team.

Thankyou :-)

Hi, I'm a newly qualified nurse and this may seem a silly question but I'm a little confused. I was taught throughout my training that if the mean arterial pressure is below 60 then the tissues are not perfusing adequately but today I was told by a collegue that it is when the diastolic is below 60. Which is correct?