whats happening out there???

[whitman]

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:

[meownsmile, BSN, RN]

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.

[nursesaideBen]

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

[ORNurseAngie]

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

[nursekatie22, RN]

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.......

[wizap]

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.