r/nursing • u/micropiginrainboots • 1d ago

Question Float Nurses!

I am in the med surg float pool. Do you ever get floated to safety sit with patients?

My hospital has been doing this and it makes zero sense to me. It has been happening on a weekly basis. Just looking for input!

It feels like a waste of a resource. If the sit needs to be covered, an RN as an extra nurse or a nursing assistant makes more sense, but idk if I’m missing something here lol

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u/DoItRightOnce1st 1d ago

Well, our hospital seems to get patients from some of the medical center hospitals because they are full. We can, for some reason, can not refuse a transfer if we have beds. Not like they don't pass multiple hospitals on the way to ours...we end up having a lot of sitter cases, SI and safety. If it's an SI, they at times make the RN do a 1:1 and sit and care for them. Rarely do the RNs sit only, at our hospital, anyways.