I'm asking, because I recently got called to the carpet at my current job because I held a code bed "just in case." I was told that we NEVER hold a bed for a potential code and we don't plan for the what-ifs.
I'm the house Supervisor and I am expected to fill every bed in the ICU (it's only 8 beds). I cannot have a code bed and I cannot leave an empty bed in the ICU if there are patients boarding in the ER, even if it means stretching the nurses beyond the 2:1 ratio.
At my previous hospital, I was spoiled, because we always had a code bed, and a free-floating charge nurse that could take a 2nd code if needed. Here, I have to cross my fingers and hold my breath that there's not an in-house code because I won't have a bed for them.
Btem1789
2 Posts
If it was only that easy!