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Just looking for an "on average." Shift length and patient acuity certainly play a role. I'm just looking for a relative perspective.
For example, I am an intern and usually see 0.75-1.25 patients per hour. Sometimes I see less than 1 patient per hour if some of my patients are really sick and need lots of attention. Sometimes I go into a trauma trolling for tubes or lines and see less. And then sometimes it's slow at night and I see 1/hr.
Just curious where your numbers are. often I start out strong, seeing maybe up to 2/hr, and then one patient really takes me by surprise and I drop significantly (whether the patient is sick or just a 'challenging personality'). I dunno, I feel like it really takes the air out of my tires and ruins my motivation sometimes. I need to see people to learn, but I struggle sometimes with people who just should not be in the ED. And then I stop caring for a bit.
Like the patient I saw the other night, who had a bad dream and thought they were dying, and while I was convincing them they didn't need a CT head to rule out impending death, a septic patient came in and I missed a tube and good patient management because I was convincing someone they weren't dying because they dreamed they were.
at the heart of things, I'm just paranoid that at the end of these 4 years I'm not going to know enough. So i guess I'm just on par with my paranoid sleep death-er 🙁
For example, I am an intern and usually see 0.75-1.25 patients per hour. Sometimes I see less than 1 patient per hour if some of my patients are really sick and need lots of attention. Sometimes I go into a trauma trolling for tubes or lines and see less. And then sometimes it's slow at night and I see 1/hr.
Just curious where your numbers are. often I start out strong, seeing maybe up to 2/hr, and then one patient really takes me by surprise and I drop significantly (whether the patient is sick or just a 'challenging personality'). I dunno, I feel like it really takes the air out of my tires and ruins my motivation sometimes. I need to see people to learn, but I struggle sometimes with people who just should not be in the ED. And then I stop caring for a bit.
Like the patient I saw the other night, who had a bad dream and thought they were dying, and while I was convincing them they didn't need a CT head to rule out impending death, a septic patient came in and I missed a tube and good patient management because I was convincing someone they weren't dying because they dreamed they were.
at the heart of things, I'm just paranoid that at the end of these 4 years I'm not going to know enough. So i guess I'm just on par with my paranoid sleep death-er 🙁