Corporate headaches

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

Hi. OKAY..those of you who work for a corporation big or small...what kinds of things are you required to send to the corporate nurse every week? I can't see the clinical sense of half the stuff I have to send. Skins are one thing but the rest of it? I'm thinking she wants it just to have a reason to justify her job.

[noc4senuf]

Sorry CPM. Even though i work for a corporate, non-profit. We do not have a "company" nurse. I'm it.

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

Me too.....I AM the corporate/company nurse.

Although in the past, I have worked for a for-profit corporation that employed regional directors of nursing to oversee the nurse consultants. My opinion was that our monthly meetings were a complete waste of time, for which I usually had to drive at least 50 and most often 100 + miles to get to (they were held at the different facilities in OR and WA). But I was fortunate in that I didn't have to send in monthly reports of any kind, the 'corporate nurse' was more of a resource than anything else. (We had the meetings mainly for socialization, but the fact that they were mandatory sort of took the fun out of them.)

[mercy1975]

I request the following:

Skin log

Fall /Incident Log

Dietician's reports

I review all of these to assure we are doing everything we can for the residents. I report to the owner who wants an update weekly.

[infectionRN]

We send corp. nurse the skin log, all unplanned discharges for the week( why they were sent out-who sent them out and their payer source). If wound % is >3 a weekly summary gets sent as well for a month.