overnight care

Re: overnight care

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:26:09 GMT

Our night shift finishes at 830am, weekdays and saturda., Sunday she finishes at 10am, day shift takes over until 5pm sat sun, when night shift takes over again.;

During the week, nightshift is available on call from 10pm, till 8.30am

then off that day and night,.

Re: overnight care

Vicky RVN — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:11:01 GMT

Ah ok, i get what you mean now i think! So the night nurse will start shift at 7ish...well how about them starting at 6, then they do the 6-7 meds?! Dos seem stupid for a nurse to travel back to give meds when there is a nurse there!

Re: overnight care

doreen — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:54:57 GMT

i m not sure exactly what time they start, i am guessing around the 7ish mark. thats kind of what i think...... the one nurse has told me they wont do the sat pm meds etc makes me think what are they going to do!

sorry if it sounds confusing - i mean that the nurse working the days shifts sat and sun always had responsibility for in patients ie coming back in the evening to feed, medicate etc. as there was no one else there and vets do not do any checks. we just put down between 1 and 1.5 hours extra on time sheet for this. so now a separate nurse is being employed over night for 'in-patient' care i assumed the day shift nurse would not be required to come back again as the night nurse will be sitting up stairs in flat.

am i just grumpy ? sorry i not always! :)

Re: overnight care

Vicky RVN — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:52:49 GMT

How often does everyone check their inpatients? We are around regularly from 7pm till midnight, then check at 3 and 6 (unless condition requires any different). Animals with drips always get checked every 3 hours at least.

Re: overnight care

chanel clydesdale — Fri, 07 May 2010 20:31:53 GMT

our night shifts begins at 4.15 un the afternoon and basically we stay in the flat overnight to deal with any inpatients and calls. We have to do this for our hosp status but works very well. We stay dowstairs csthcing up on duties such as drape making, re stocking as required along with dealing with patents and then if all is well bed between 12-6 then finish at 9.15 the next morning, We are then off duty till the following night so its one night on and one night off. At the weekend it goes over to the emrgency service who covers several practices from our premises and this runs from 6pm-9am on a fri then from 12pm on a sat till 8am on a monday with both a vet and nurse stayin in the flat

Re: overnight care

Vicky RVN — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:39:00 GMT

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I don't really get what you are saying. If the night nurse isn't there to deal with the inpatients then what are they there for? Or have I completely missed the point?

When I did nights, I stayed in the flat overnight and dealt with the inpatients and was on call for anything else that came in.

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I don't understand either...

We use VetsNow for calls, but stay in the flat to look after our inpatients. Weekend inpatients transferred to VN midday sat.

Re: overnight care

Kim Buckley — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:55:45 GMT

I don't really get what you are saying. If the night nurse isn't there to deal with the inpatients then what are they there for? Or have I completely missed the point?

When I did nights, I stayed in the flat overnight and dealt with the inpatients and was on call for anything else that came in.

Re: overnight care

Jenzel — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:28:27 GMT

We have recently started doing nights, staying in a flat upstairs.

Our Sat shift is 8-12.30 then we go back in at 6pm-8.15am. Maybe the shifts could be worked out so that the night nurse only would deal with the in-patients and no one would have to come back then. If a patient needs special treatment then the vet on-call would come and help.

Re: overnight care

Sal the 1st — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:15:32 GMT

it would depend on what time the nurse staying in the flat is due to start providing cover and what hours their payment covers and how many patients are involved.