cdrn1

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1. About productive hours per patient day?

   cdrn1 replied to rrroyer's topic in Management

   Ours does not include management hours or unit secretaries but does include NA's.

2. Female nurses earn less than male nurses

   cdrn1 replied to Hellllllo Nurse's topic in General Nursing

   Actually, Reddgott, I believe that honey is technically more closely related to bee vomit than it is to bee poop. Just FWIW.

3. About productive hours per patient day?

   cdrn1 replied to rrroyer's topic in Management

   On our med/surg unit we are alotted 6 hours per patient. I just attended an IONE conference and in a discussion about magnet hospitals, the average was around 10.

4. Medi-tex

   cdrn1 replied to ENDOgal's topic in Med-Surg

   We have been using Meditech for about three years for order entry, lab data, and some other things but not for documentation yet. We love it. It's very user-friendly, and if we think of something we would like to see it do, our expert figures out h...

5. On Call Pay and Requirements: A poll

   cdrn1 replied to pieWACKet's topic in General Nursing

   At our facility the staff gets $3 per hour for call. If census gets low, we ask for volunteers for call. Usually someone wants to take it. If called in it is straight time unless an extra shift already. You have 10 minutes plus travel time to com...

6. Taking Call

   cdrn1 replied to Kansas_RN's topic in Safety

   We do use on-call and low census at our hospital to deal with census fluctuations. If on call, staff is paid $3 per hour; if on low census they are simply off. Managers ask for a volunteer; usually someone wants to be off. If no one does, we take tu...