https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/f/nonclinical-discussions/15676/kennel-nurse-ops-nurse-duties We are considering a change in our rota in the new year and was just wondering how other people worked out their duties How does your kennel nurse duty work, do you have one person on all week and what hours do they do? We currently normally onlyen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/122987?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:13:46 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:062bd2d1-9bcd-40b7-bf6e-ba2c0143f859GremlinNurse<p>That&#39;s great guys, thanks....deffo some food for thought! <img src="http://www.vetnurse.co.uk/emoticons/new/Happy_smiley.png" alt="Smile" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/122972?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:08:13 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:5f86e867-e3d8-4862-a2d2-c7a73c143273Sal the 1st<p>When I worked in one hospital we used to have either 2 or 4 weeks in an area. Kennels nurse was 8.30 am start and responsible for all inpatients along with ward staff.(ward staff were 8am -2pm or 1-7 there were 2 of them &nbsp; and as well as letting dogs out and feeding also took the early phone calls from 8am and covered phones from 5.30 - 7) All admissions were done by the 2nd clinic nurse/2nd theatre nurse unless a vet had specifically asked for a vet admission. Ward rounds were 9 till 9.30 (which were murder because either every vet wanted to give their messages at the same time or nobody did which isnt unusual I have seen this in a few places)</p> <p>1st theatre nurse was a 8.00am - 4.30&nbsp;</p> <p>2nd theatre nurse was an 8.45 - 5.00</p> <p>clinics nurse 9.30 - 7 ( took over in theatre if needed after 5.00)</p> <p>lunches were covered this way</p> <p>1st theatre nurse went first and was covered by 2nd theatre nurse</p> <p>kennels nurse was covered by clinics nurse (clinics nurse was a 9.30 start to cover clinics starting at 10 and finishing at 12.30)</p> <p>discharges were done by the 1st theatre nurse who finished in theatre at 4pm but worked till 4.30 and the clinics nurse.</p> <p>kennels staff did a change over at 6.45 for the night auxilliary (which included a ward round with the clinics nurse and duty vet)</p> <p>pharmacy /float nurse was 9-6.00 and covered pharmacy,lab and isolation and also some discharges if clinics nurse was in theatre after 5. (as long as their lunch was finished before clinics kicked off again at 2 they took their lunch pretty much when they wanted somewhere between 12.30 and 2)</p> <p>think thats all we had</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/122966?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:46:20 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:579caf75-9c2e-4df1-af04-a927a3b79b23Julie-Anne Wilson<p>We recently just changed to week long rotas.&nbsp; Our really early nurse is in at 8 and their only focus all day is the in patients, they do that all week ~ helps to have the same nurse &#39;cos then it&#39;s easier to notice a change in patients when it&#39;s the same person all week.&nbsp; The early nurse comes in at 8.30 and they&#39;re ward/theatre nurse, they help out on ward in the morning when it&#39;s busiest with admitting then they help out in theatre.&nbsp; Our long day nurse comes in at 9.30 and they are solely theatre.&nbsp; And out late nurse comes in at 11.00 and they are lab nurse, which involves helping out at reception and ordering anything needed in pharmacy.&nbsp; The other nurses are in charge of ordering things needed in their areas.&nbsp; With us changing to weekly, it makes it a lot easier to arrange appointments.&nbsp; As long as we&#39;re not short staffed/nurse holidays etc, we should go on a circular rota so really early then early then long day then late and back to the beginning again.</p> <p>It works for us, the only time things change is on lunches where the everyone goes where they&#39;re needed <i>except </i>the ward nurse, she&#39;s never to leave ward.&nbsp; This last part only works if we&#39;re at full nursing capacity.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetnurse.co.uk/thread/122965?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:35:18 GMT1a0763ec-3885-442c-853e-6cef656dfec5:c10aebe0-2cdf-48d6-8b98-70c269d0aedbGemma Burden RVN<p>We currently have a couple of days on ops or kennels each week (depending on how the rota works out for that week), and spend the whole day in that role.&nbsp; The only problem I have with this is that it would be nice to have more continuity with hospitalised cases, but generally it works well.&nbsp; We try and arrange times for the admit and discharges, but for some reason the clients seem to ignore the admit time we tell them and turn up whenever they feel like within the space of half an hour (usually all deciding to turn up at work), and they often seem to think that the discharge appointment is only a guide on the time they should turn up (why do clients think this way about nurse appointments, but would probably not do this for a vet appointment?!).&nbsp; Our kennel and op nurses both start at 8am, so that we can start in patient care straight away in the morning, and the op nurse is there to do her own admits .&nbsp; Our consult and reception nurses start a little later.&nbsp; This is working well at the moment, but we are a fairly small practice (2 full time, and 2 part time vets, and 4 nurses), so this might not work so well for a larger practice.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>