Vanderbilt Medical Center to have nurses cleaning up

[DidiRN]

"Cleaning the room after the case, including pulling your trash and mopping the floor, are all infection-prevention strategies. And it's all nursing, and it's all surgical tech. You may not believe that, but even Florence Nightingale knew that was true," said a hospital administrator to staff in a video obtained by the Channel 4 I-Team."

http://www.wsmv.com/story/23364976/vanderbilt-medical-center-to-have-nurses-cleaning-up

[PMHNP10]

I just read an article that someone posted on Facebook about this. I thought this was new news and made some off-the-cuff statements like the nurses will **** and moan but ultimately pick up their mops and scrub brushes and get to work. 4 months later...

[Rebelle]

Are hospital policy available to the public who request a copy under the freedom of information act? How much does the CEO make in salary, bonuses etc? How much did he receive for thinking this up? Why isn't he helping to clean?

[gwenvgg]

As long as the nursing care is included in the room rate, this will continue. Hospitals have never valued nursing care because it is not billable hours. When Florence Nightingale cleaned rooms, she did not have all the paperwork, treatments and medications to give to patients. Nor did she have to hold physicians and residents hands as they made rounds.

It never bothered me to spot clean but to completely clean a room after discharge with the patient load a nurse has to do is putting patients at risk.

Nurses need to fight to bill for their services

[Novo]

As long as the nursing care is included in the room rate, this will continue. Hospitals have never valued nursing care because it is not billable hours. When Florence Nightingale cleaned rooms, she did not have all the paperwork, treatments and medications to give to patients. Nor did she have to hold physicians and residents hands as they made rounds.

It never bothered me to spot clean but to completely clean a room after discharge with the patient load a nurse has to do is putting patients at risk.

Nurses need to fight to bill for their services

This!!!

[StNeotser, ASN, RN]

As long as the nursing care is included in the room rate, this will continue. Hospitals have never valued nursing care because it is not billable hours. When Florence Nightingale cleaned rooms, she did not have all the paperwork, treatments and medications to give to patients. Nor did she have to hold physicians and residents hands as they made rounds.

It never bothered me to spot clean but to completely clean a room after discharge with the patient load a nurse has to do is putting patients at risk.

Nurses need to fight to bill for their services

It is interesting, the idea of billing. I work home hospice and one day a patients wife showed me what they were billing Medicare for an hours visit. I about fell off the chair. It was about seven times my hourly rate. I know that I cost the company more than my hourly rate in SS, benefits etc and that the supplies I bring to visits along with support staff in the offices all cost money. That billed visit covers far more than just my paycheck.

I have read so many times on this forum about how "nurses cost the hospital money" or that "physicians make money and nurses take it away" statements that make me so angry.

It really is all in how patients are billed. The trouble is, they are billed so outrageously for everything else they get in the hospital, I'm not sure how we will get our piece of the pie. Plus it might be a little difficult if we tried to bill for each thing. Say gravity tube feeding or trach care vs bringing a ginger ale? It would most likely have to be a flat rate.