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  1. low,medium, high evals of staff

    thanks Bipley for your post. The staff in my unit of the hosp are so upset by this management tactic. We feel so hurt, manipulated, etc. I don't know if the program from the Studer group was presented properly or not, but we are not feeling inspir...
  2. our hosp has recently adopted a program of evaluations modeled after the Studer group. We have all been labeled by the supervisors and manager as low, medium or high performers. Has anyone heard of this in their hospital and how do you and your pee...
  3. Nurse: Patient ratios

    At my hosp in Dallas, we routinely have 2 patients each with a floating charge nurse. This is a surgical, trauma, neuro, OB ICU. Lately, things have been extremely busy with acuity sky high. We have had several patients who should have automatical...
  4. Nurse: Patient ratios

    At my hosp in Dallas, we routinely have 2 patients each with a floating charge nurse. This is a surgical, trauma, neuro, OB ICU. Lately, things have been extremely busy with acuity sky high. We have had several patients who should have automatical...
  5. Prone Positioning

    At our teaching hosp in Texas, we rarely prone patients. To my knowledge of 14 yrs, we have only done it 2 or 3 times. This was without a Stryker frame; it took about 6 people to turn the patient and watch the lines; you can imagine the horror; I d...
  6. GAstric Bypass in the SICU

    I work in a major teaching hospital where the surgeons do several gastric bypasses each weekday. We only get the ones that "go bad" in the ICU. And, they have always gone very bad. Of, course, the surgeon always says it is because the patient is n...