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It will all depend on location and hospital size.
The hospital I work at has around 37,000 ER visits/yr.
This is a local ER in the suburbs, we have 16 rooms in the ER, with daily use of another 4-5 hallway beds.
As for busy and chaotic, that also depends on staff, nurse to pt ratios, flow, rooms, providers, and hospital bedding.
Whoa how many rooms do you have?
level 1 trauma center we averaged over 70k, but we had so many holds....average of 40 to 50 a shift. It was a miracle we saw anyone really...
then I went to a level 2 trauma, we saw 110k last year, average 380 to low 400s a night.
now I'm at a mid 300s place and I hate the inefficiency. Give me back my throughput!
Haha... I worked in a small 12 bed ER in a semi-rural setting. When I worked there 3 years ago, our daily visits averaged about 50 patients per 24 hours, and our yearly volume was 17,000 or so. We had a max of 2-4 nurses on during the day and 2-3 nurses on at night (depending on the time). One physician and one PA most days. Sometimes it was just one physician. No PA at night. One "ED tech" who rarely did patient care, they did mostly secretarial duties and took over registration for the whole facility at night.
I got to see lots of cool stuff and learned to do a lot without the resources that bigger hospitals have, though. Some of the numbers you guys are posting here are staggering to me.
agiboma, BSN, MSN, NP
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Just curious what the volume you see yearly in your ER. For me we see roughly about 170,000 a year so on average 500 a day. Its the only ER I have worked in so although its busy and chaotic just wanna get an idea of what others see.