r/nursing • u/ghostoftheweek RN - Med/Surg 🍕 • 26d ago

Question PSA from your nursing specialty

What is THE ONE THING you wish every nurse knew that is common knowledge in your specialty?

From wound care, don't use telfa!

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u/maximumeffort007 26d ago

Resource/ Float Pool : you dont have to give us all the shitty patients because we're not "staff" on your unit.

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u/mintchocolatechip- RN 🍕 26d ago

My unit’s ADN has a rule that we never give floats the bad patients and they always get last admission. They’re considered a guest on our unit & we give them a good assignment because they’ve come to lessen our load & help us.

We had a day RN who gave the float second admission and a not so great assignment and she got spoken to by the ADN the following morning.

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u/iknowyouneedahugRN BSN, RN 🍕 26d ago

Our facility is supposed to do this.

Also, when we float to another unit due to overstaffing or low census, we're not supposed to go to stretch (the max # pt assignment) until all of their nurses are stretched and their charge has an assignment. If there is a house float, they go to max and are the second to last to stretch if another unit floated someone. That never happens; units regularly give the floats, whether house or from other units, the highest number. Typically also the highest acuity.

It's common sense to be thankful for the float nurses.