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Question about Code Beds

At your hospital, do you save a "Code bed?"

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.

So, do you have a code bed?

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5 hours ago, Btem1789 said:

If it was only that easy!

I was the 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. House Supervisor for 5 years and it was that easy?

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