rocrn06

We do quite a bit of teaching about car seat and car seat safety. We are all trained as staff on the proper fit and how to educate parents. The parents are responsible for placing their baby in the seat an demonstrating the proper fit to the baby. We do full car seat inspections, although we cannot tell a parent they cannot use the seat they provide. We educate about expiration dates and occasionally will provide the family with a new seat if the one they bring is deemed unsafe, or if they just do not bring one in. We also have a video for them to watch as well as a handout and a list of car seat fitting stations. We cannot help them install it into their car due to hospital liability.

Our current unit is a 60 bed unit made up of Pods with 6 patients per pod. We are moving soon to single patient rooms. We will have two units after the move. There will be 42 single patient rooms in the new tower and the remainder will be in another unit temporarily while our current unit is renovated. My question is how do other single patient room units run the day to day operations? How are patients assigned? How is report, and assignments given? How are breaks and lunches done? We will have alarms that will go to our phones, how do you find this to work? Our staff is very close, many like family. How do you feel the relationships are in single patient rooms? How do you make new staff feel welcome and get to know everyone? I would love to hear any advice and information you can share.