Accessing work email at home

Do you have access to work email outside of work? Yes and intranet access for access to pay stubs, education, timecard, scheduling, and much more

What are the stipulations (if any)? Must download "Duo Mobile" to access hospital server. You login to the server from the hospital's website. Server sends verification to your Duo Mobile App to verify YOU are accessing the server. You hit "acknowledge" on the app and the server gives you access on your computer.

How many beds are in your hospital/or are you part of a large system?part of a large hospital system

What state are you in?KY

Pros and cons of getting email (in your opinion). Not sure what the cons for being able to access your email at home would be. I don't usually access it at home unless I am expecting a certain email response that I need before my next work shift.

Currently, at my main job we get correspondence on our personal emails. I prefer this. Most of us don't bother with the hospital email system there.

I worked for a small hospital where we could access from home. That was good as well, although there is always a lot of clutter on these company emails to sift through.

I have a Per Diem job in a tiny hospital that doesn't allow access and I get very few updates on my personal email. I've complained that I don't work enough to get updated and engaged there, to no avail. They always complain that pool workers end up not picking up shifts after awhile and I think this is a huge factor.

Do you have access to work email outside of work? Yes. We can access it via a webpage that requires a sign-in. I think there might be an app, too. The webpage version works pretty well on mobile devices, although it's a program that I am overall not crazy about.

What are the stipulations (if any)? None, surprisingly. I'm even able to forward it to a commercial email address. To be fair, I never receive patient-specific info via email. It's a lot of required training modules, emails about stuff on my unit, hospital news, shared governance minutes, etc.

How many beds are in your hospital/or are you part of a large system? About 700 divided between two hospitals in town.

What state are you in? NY

Pros and cons of getting email (in your opinion). I don't have time at work to read it. I'm a charge nurse with a full patient assignment...the last thing I'm going to pay attention to during my shift is an email about a wellness workshop or some new required education. I prefer to read it at home/on my phone and deal with it when I choose to. I would say that I get 5-15 emails a day just from work. Occasionally it is annoying to feel like I "need" to deal with an email on a day off, but most of the time I prefer it. My manager is not very tech savvy so if there's something I don't want to deal with from home I can say "I couldn't access that from home--I'll look at it on Thursday night when I work" and she is fine with it.

Do you have access to work email outside of work? - Yes, we have secure remote access. It does require set up with our IT department, but it's easy to get it accomplished, and it's a one time deal.

What are the stipulations (if any)? None outside of protecting patient privacy as per usual.

How many beds are in your hospital/or are you part of a large system? - we are part of a very large system in the southeast.

What state are you in? NC

Pros and cons of getting email (in your opinion). I like keeping up with things, and sometimes things are short notice and I would miss them if I did not routinely check my email at home. I only work part time, so I am sometimes out of the hospital for over a week at a time, depending on how my schedule lines up. I have heard people say that it makes them feel like they never can "escape" work, but no one is FORCING me to check my email. I do not work from home, I am not getting paid to read my email... lol... so therefore I skim everything every other day or so and leave it at that.

On 12/13/2018 at 8:49 AM, SaraE67 said:

Hi All! Currently, our system does not allow bedside nurses to have home/remote access to email. If a nurse is in Shared Governance, they can be approved, but not other nurses. Would you mind answering a few questions?

1. Do you have access to work email outside of work? Our hospital only has access for salaried employees.
2. What are the stipulations (if any)? Salaried only.
3. How many beds are in your hospital/or are you part of a large system? I think around 130
4. What state are you in?
5. Pros and cons of getting email (in your opinion). I have felt very out of the loop since this change was made. I used to use my work email all the time to pull up scheduling for classes, inservice times, reading long/detailed emails when it is quiet and I have more time to digest it. Now I have to forward anything I need to my home email and if I forget I have to call someone and ask if I am on a long stretch off. Now management has to text everyone anytime they need anything when we are off because we can't check it. I did make it a point to check it once a day.

• We are required to read our email, and most don't have time during their shift. It is the most commonly thing asked for by our bedside nurses.

I am chair of a corporate bedside nurse shared governance committee next year, and I'm going to bat to get the nurses email....thanks in advance for your help.

I don't really want to post my state, I work for a cottage type hospital as a substitute school nurse and I have access to my e-mail on my phone. someone got into a lot of trouble because a spouse got access to their e-mail and a hullabaloo ensued. What blew my mind was that for a long time they were sending an e-mail every week with a unit census, I sent my manager an e-mail explaining why this gave me the willies, after a good month these little bombs ceased with absolutely no explanation.

I need my e-mail off site, it's how I get offered work and how I turn in my time sheet and other administrative things. I have to go on site every 90 days to change passwords.