stevemartin

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1. Is your charge & triage RN included in nurse/patient ratio grid?

   stevemartin replied to KKERRN's topic in Emergency

   Karen, "How can they count the manager's hours...?" They just DO. They are administration and they use anything and everything to keep the budget short. Our hopital didn't get a raise last year. They banned all agency nursing from the ER. They...

2. Is your charge & triage RN included in nurse/patient ratio grid?

   stevemartin replied to KKERRN's topic in Emergency

   I am the Casse Manager for the ER. My 40 hrs and the ER Manager's 40 hrs and the clerk's hrs are all counted against our staffing ratio. We have 7 rooms (1-OB, 1-ortho, 2-traumas, and 3-basic) and we will see over 21,000 pts this year. Our regular...

3. Survey: Which of the following factors most negatively influences nurses morale?

   stevemartin replied to Brian's topic in General Nursing

   I am an ER nurseand did not come into this profession thinking that it would be easy. I expected job stress and poor staffing some of the time, but I also expected to have fully competent managers that can look out for their people, the patients, an...