Corporate headaches

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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

683 Posts

Specializes in Geriatrics, WCC.

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

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VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN

22 Articles; 9,987 Posts

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

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

58 Posts

Specializes in Long term care, pediatrics, orthopedics,.

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

35 Posts

Specializes in med surg-oncology-progressive care-Rehab.

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.

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