What is your unit like - Private, Semi-private, or Multi-bed rooms?

[abbaking]

Just curious and bored - What is your units' rooms set up? Are there mostly private or semi-private rooms or do you have multi-bed rooms?

We have mostly semi-private (2 beds) and some three beds rooms - It call be hectic and a tight squeeze in those 3 bed rooms.

[JomoNurse]

We mostly have 2 bed rooms. A few private rooms for contact isolation or VIPs, and a couple of 4 bed rooms.

[Kyrshamarks, BSN, RN]

The whole hospital is all private rooms...then again it is a doc owned building and only 2 years old

[KellyCCRN]

Our hopsital has all private rooms as well. It's nice because most are large enough to be semi-private so if there is a caregiver staying we have plenty of room for a rollaway bed and still have room to get around!

[melsman1904]

We have all private rooms.

[talaxandra]

Public hospital so the rooms are single or double. We used to have 8 single, 10 double and a four bed bay (great for moving lifting machine etc in) but moved last year and now have 18 single rooms and 8 double rooms - with ratios two of those beds are usually closed.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

My unit is all private rooms simply because of the nature of the beast.

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

Our unit has all of the above. We have eight beds in the open part of the unit and eight single rooms (well, one of them used to be a closet). But we often put two patients into four of those, including the closet. We're funded for sixteen beds (Canadian hospital) but have had twenty patients on several occasions. The rooms aren't big enough for two beds but we shoehorn then in anyway. Don't know what we're going to do when H1N1 hits us hard...

[Tait, MSN, RN]

Large Catholic non-for-profit public hospital. Newest incarnation of the building built in the mid 70's all private rooms. And trust me they were never semi-private, there would not be a lick of room on our round units!

Tait

[MedSurgeMess]

We just finished remodeling our hospital. It's ALL private rooms with recliner or roll-away bed in each room, and a table with 2-3 chairs for comfortable visiting. Unfortunately, though, sometimes with all the extras in there, we don't have much room. We found out the hard way during a code that failed d/t having to take time to move stuff out to be able to get the appropriate staff in there as well as crash cart/equipment.

[abbaking]

Large Catholic non-for-profit public hospital. Newest incarnation of the building built in the mid 70's all private rooms. And trust me they were never semi-private, there would not be a lick of room on our round units!

Tait

My hospital also has the round/circular units. 12 patient rooms (10 semi-private rooms and 2 three bed rooms) with the nurses station in the center - its a nice layout but it can get noisey. I kinda have an obsession with the round design - its so unusual and rare

[Tait, MSN, RN]

My hospital also has the round/circular units. 12 patient rooms (10 semi-private rooms and 2 three bed rooms) with the nurses station in the center - its a nice layout but it can get noisey. I kinda have an obsession with the round design - its so unusual and rare

I hear you on the noise level, seems like every punch of the stapler at 3am reverberates everywhere! However they have started remodeling and are putting in wood floors instead of the laminate (I guess we actually used to have carpeting back in the day!) and those units are very quiet.