Pts admitted from ER

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Just curious....

At your hospital, how are admit patients transported to the units? Do you have transporters? Do your PCT's transport? Do RN's transport ALL pts and give bedside report?

I'm interested to see how other hospital ER's handle this....

Specializes in ED, Tele, Med/surg, Psych, correctional.

We call report to floor on all patients. No fax report.

Med/surg admissions go into a transport tracking system via phone. The transport dept sends someone to transport the patient to the floor.

Telemetry admissions are taken to the floor by an ER tech only. Our ER techs must complete a basic dysrhythmia course.

ICU/CCU admission are transported by ER nurse (and ER tech, respiratory, etc)

Any patient receiving blood transfusion at time of transfer must be accompanied by a nurse.

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Fnmike7

If the pt is on any form of monitoring or therapy, an rn has to transport the pt to their destination, after a report is faxed a follow up call made to confirm the reciept of the report. On the other hand either a transporter or pct sends the pt to the unit as per hospital or the ER policy and arrangement.

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