whats happening out there???

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Specializes in medical and agency, Emergency last 3yrs.

Hi ya all just wondering how anyones night shift is going? We are oddly quiet, very strange!! Anyone else enjoying the night life of night nursing? :uhoh21::uhoh3:

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho.

Census is always slower in the summer. Noone wants to be couped up with an elective surgery during summer months. Things pick up again by september usually.

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Specializes in Medical Telemetry, LTC,AlF, Skilled care.

Good lord the past couple months have been hell on wheels. The past 3 weeks, no empty beds, multiple alcohol detox pts that have been combative and abusive so much so that security has had to been called, we've been seeing a TON of oncology pts here lately particularly lung ca, don't know what the deal with that is. It's just been absolutely crazy, I work the next three nights I'm praying it'll be better than what the past few weekends have been :(

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Specializes in Med/surg/tele/OR.

I agree, I work days on a med surg floor, and it has been insane. Combative alcohol detox patients, psych, one who drank bleach! We too have seen a surge of oncology patients. Yesterday on my team of seven patients, I had four with cancer, and our hospital has a seperate oncology floor. It has been slow numbers wise, but the patients have sure been really sick

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Oncology/Telemetry/ICU.

It's been lower census for my floor, too, but at the same time, it can seem really busy! :uhoh21: Maybe that's just cause I'm a new grad.......

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Specializes in ER, OB, Med/Surg,.

I am a rural nurse, I do med/surg, OB, and ER ...all on the same night. I work in a rural hospital. It seems to me when ER is slow, we make up for it in med/surge patients, and when you least expect it, an OB walks in. Sometimes the MD is doing an ER, my RN is doing the Med/surg patients and I am doing fetal monitor.

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