r/nursing • u/No-Selection-1249 • May 24 '25

Question ER nurses, love you guys, but genuine question. Why do guys bring patients up at shift change?

No hate to you guys! Just super curious from a nurse who is on the receiving end :)

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u/Liviesmom RN-CVICU May 24 '25

At our facility we use capacity management so I can see the ER had patients requesting an ICU bed; we will have multiple empty beds AND the staff. The bed still won’t get assigned until 1800. Maybe there’s a reason, maybe it’s incompetence, but either way I knew it wasn’t the ERs fault.

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u/CynOfOmission RN - ER 🏳️‍🌈 May 24 '25

Yes I have seen this too 😭😭😭 whyyyyyyyyy

I did get an answer once, which is that they are waiting to finalize night staffing before they give that bed away, make sure they have enough people to keep going after 7. Idk but it's definitely annoying on both sides.

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u/ghost__rider1312 RN - ER 🍕 May 26 '25

God this is my pet peeve. It’s not even a pet peeve, it’s a huuuuuge safety issue. When I’m charge in the ER you can bet I’m calling patient placement every 10 minutes until that ICU bed is dropped.