Honestly not much different at all… my floor is neuro/neurosurgery but since we get both PCU and medsurg neuro patients, our patient load is anywhere from 1 very sick fresh crani patient to 4 who just had spine surgery but are otherwise healthy. On the medsurg unit I floated to, they have 4 patients max. So pace-wise it was basically just a not-very-heavy day on my unit. Only difference was that the patients had diseases I wasn’t familiar with at all 🤣
Yeah it’s pretty sweet… our entire hospital is max of 4 patients except in crazy circumstances. I’ve been there 2 years and there were only 2 times when I had to have 5 patients, and it’s the same on all the floors!
We’re very lucky!!! My sister is also a nurse and she graduated a year before I did. Her first job was at a small town hospital on the medsurg floor where she’d regularly have 7 patients and her anxiety was through the roof. She hated it. When I graduated and got my job, the first thing I did was ask if they’d hire my sister too. Four months later and she works on the same unit I do and she loves to remind me of her first job whenever I complain 🤣
The Neuro trauma icu dept I used to work at had a "poop alone" and "poop with friends" labels.
The Surgical ICU had a basket of period supplies, pamprin, a large rubber lobster in the basket with a sign that said "Menstruation Crustacean Station." 🦞
How was the change of pace?
Honestly not much different at all… my floor is neuro/neurosurgery but since we get both PCU and medsurg neuro patients, our patient load is anywhere from 1 very sick fresh crani patient to 4 who just had spine surgery but are otherwise healthy. On the medsurg unit I floated to, they have 4 patients max. So pace-wise it was basically just a not-very-heavy day on my unit. Only difference was that the patients had diseases I wasn’t familiar with at all 🤣
Max of four patients on med surg? I’d be down to work there again!
Yeah it’s pretty sweet… our entire hospital is max of 4 patients except in crazy circumstances. I’ve been there 2 years and there were only 2 times when I had to have 5 patients, and it’s the same on all the floors!
Max of 4 patients?! I'm jealous! My 2 hospitals are a 1:6 ratio on med surg.
We’re very lucky!!! My sister is also a nurse and she graduated a year before I did. Her first job was at a small town hospital on the medsurg floor where she’d regularly have 7 patients and her anxiety was through the roof. She hated it. When I graduated and got my job, the first thing I did was ask if they’d hire my sister too. Four months later and she works on the same unit I do and she loves to remind me of her first job whenever I complain 🤣
Ours says "Poop with friends" vs "Poop alone". Always makes me laugh 😃
Doesn’t help when at my hospital the open is different from door to door
Open is the position that allowed it to be opened. Close will be opposite of that.
need a sticker in the middle for “surprise party”
Someone wrote on ours “Zombies” or “No zombies”. 😂😂
I saw something similar… it was labeled ‘poop alone’ or ‘poop with friends’.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1dmrz64/comment/l9xsqaa/](https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/1dmrz64/comment/l9xsqaa/)
The Neuro trauma icu dept I used to work at had a "poop alone" and "poop with friends" labels. The Surgical ICU had a basket of period supplies, pamprin, a large rubber lobster in the basket with a sign that said "Menstruation Crustacean Station." 🦞
We have that in our bathroom (pacu!!)
I’ve seen something similar. Is it a university hospital?
Nope magnet teaching hospital in FL
I laughed way more than I probably should have 😝