Just a friendly reminder to review all float assignments to ensure they are appropriate for the person being floated in. Please remember that it is generally NOT a good idea to give the float someone who has a very complicated discharge plan or who is rooming in and needs to be monitored/checked off on final skills before discharge. Also, be mindful of giving the total care, chronic patients to float staff (unless there are no other appropriate assignments). This is especially difficult if we do it shift after shift. We want the families to have more consistency from out home unit staff. I know this is hard sometimes when you have mostly true intermediate patients on 7C or mostly older or very complex patients in the PICU.
Please let me know if you have questions. Both of our units will be running a bit tight the next schedule with people out on FMLA or until orientees are ready, so I want to be sure we are being supportive of any float staff. This may include Meduflex if they are not really familiar with out patients/unit.
Thanks so much!
Melinda
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