The hospitalization service is a place to arrange for hospital beds. When a patient decides to be hospitalized after an outpatient visit, the physician will issue a slip with the dates of hospitalization and surgery, and the patient will then go to the hospitalization service to drop off the slip and wait for the notification. Because of the shortage of beds, the date written by the physician can only be considered "expected.
The entire hospital has many patients waiting for surgery, waiting to receive treatment, a carrot, the front patients are not discharged, no one can enter the back.
Whenever a patient is unable to be hospitalized as scheduled, the attending physician will always blast the resident, and there are even attending physicians who do not want to believe that there are no beds in the hospital, and go to the nursing station one by one to open the doors of the wards to make sure that they are all full of patients before they are willing to give up.
To keep the bosses' blood pressure from skyrocketing, when I was a resident, I had to report to the inpatient services office on Saturday mornings after checking in, and sit next to the nurses who arranged for the beds to be made available.
"Nurse Lee, how are the beds today?" That's how I usually start.
"You've got too many patients lined up for surgery! There's not enough room for all of them! There aren't enough surgical wards!" That's basically Nurse Lee's answer.
Nurse Lee would then toss me a stack of hospitalization slips and say, "We may not be able to admit these.
"That's a lot?" I look at the diagnoses and surgeries on the lists to determine the number of days in the hospital and how easy it is to care for them.
There were so many patients who couldn't be hospitalized that I had to call other departments to borrow beds.
"Is there anyone in your ward who is being discharged on Sunday?"
"Borrow a bed if you can! All the knives were stuck on Monday!"
It took a round of phone calls each time before the few hospitalization orders could be digested. While this may provide some relief from the pressure of bed scheduling, it carries significant risks:
First, the patient's family is dissatisfied. Occasionally, they complain, "You're an adult, but you're in a pediatric ward. "Obviously, they are men, why are they in the obstetrics and gynecology ward?"
Second, the nursing staff is unfamiliar. Whether it's pediatrics, OB/GYN, internal medicine, neurology, or any other department, it can be frustrating for caregivers. After all, patterns of care vary greatly from one department to another; what should be done to prepare before surgery? What are the post-operative conditions that need to be taken care of? And how to take care of it? Can you drink and eat? Without regular contact, many accidents are sure to occur.
Third, the attending physician was unhappy: "Why do my patients have to stay in other rooms? You have to run five floors for a room check."
Every time I borrowed a bed from another department, I was on edge, worried that something would go wrong or cause dissatisfaction among the patients and nursing staff...
Writing all this is just to tell you that hospital beds are really full, and physicians can't wait for there to be more beds to be available, so please don't believe in the ridiculous myths of "physicians hide beds" and "there are beds when the officials say so. The company's website has been updated with the latest information on the company's website!
More importantly, medical care is not just about having a "bed", but also about having sufficient and appropriate medical manpower and equipment to provide good care.