The "magnet hospital" I work in has started a new process, Because we are not busy enough. We are now doing hourly check lists on top of our legal documentation. They say it is required by the president of the hospital. So now in our ER, we have 4 to 6 pt's, usually short staffed, transport our own pt's, clean our rooms, yada ;yady yada, you know the story. Well anyway, we now have to do hourly checklists on all pts. The lists are on a clip board beside the pt's bed, they include the following : is the room clean, did you offer a warm blanket, :bowingpurdid you ask the pt is you can do anything else for them, :uhoh21:did you ask the pt their pain level, for a total of 7 things that are also as stupid. I'm not saying doing these things are stupid, I'm saying double documentation is nuts ! So now when the pt's and visitors get upset because they have to wait for 4 hours for their runny nose that they need percocet for, they can read the lists and have even more ammution to use against us. So, I think the hospital could do more for the nursing staff. I have about had it. Where does the CEO get off doing such things. No wounder things are such a mess with the obvious disconnection of upper management and the " real world". I wounder how often he get called a ****** *****or other choice words. I wounder if he has gone 12 hours for a week without a lunch or heck even to pee. I wounder when the last time his shoes were urinated into by a drunk or spat at by a pt. or called every name in the book or punched scratched all while lifting a 400 LB pt. I want to come up with a list for him. Have any ideas.:yeah: For one I would like him to call a unit every hour to make sure the nurses got to lunch, after all that is a law not a choice. I'm sure we can come up with 6 other things for him to do every hour. He must have the time if all he has to do is come up with more work for an already overloaded staff.
Thanks to TiaKay for the helpful link to the research study on which the Studer Group bases this current "sell" to the hospitals of hourly rounding. I quote from the credits of the authors of the research:
"Christine M. Meade is executive director of the Alliance for Health Care Research, a subsidiary of the
Studer Group, a health care leadership and service excellence consulting firm in Gulf Breeze, FL. Amy L.
Bursell is president of Bursell Research, a research firm in Alexandria, VA. Lyn Ketelsen is a senior leader
and coach for the Studer Group. Contact author: Christine M. Meade, [email protected].
The Studer Group funded the time and travel of the Alliance for Health Care Research staff involved in
this study. Each participating hospital funded any costs related directly to the study. Participating hospitals
yep-and I work in an ICU where I am in the room with my patients. It is not all bad. We alternate with the aides and have more "checkpoints" with them as well. CAT
Some hospitals keep spending more and more money on these studies instead of just hiring more staff. They know it needs to happen and just keep avoiding the fact. Put the money into the real problem and hire actual people to handle it instead of more paperwork and silly surveys.
Want to really make the patients happy?! Hire more nurses and CNAs. Let them have a few minutes to actually chat with their patients and comfort them versus running in and out like chickens without heads because they are so short staffed. Let the patients be treated like people versus robots and receive individualized care like they deserve.
is the room clean, did you offer a warm blanket, :bowingpurdid you ask the pt is you can do anything else for them, :uhoh21:did you ask the pt their pain level,
for a total of 7 things that are also as stupid. I'm not saying doing these things are stupid, I'm saying double documentation is nuts ! So now when the pt's and visitors get upset because they have to wait for 4 hours for their runny nose that they need percocet for, they can read the lists and have even more ammution to use against us. So, I think the hospital could do more for the nursing staff. I have about had it. Where does the CEO get off doing such things. 
No wounder things are such a mess with the obvious disconnection of upper management and the " real world". I wounder how often he get called a ****** *****or other choice words. I wounder if he has gone 12 hours for a week without a lunch or heck even to pee. I wounder when the last time his shoes were urinated into by a drunk or spat at by a pt. or called every name in the book or punched scratched all while lifting a 400 LB pt. I want to come up with a list for him. Have any ideas.
:yeah: For one I would like him to call a unit every hour to make sure the nurses got to lunch, after all that is a law not a choice. I'm sure we can come up with 6 other things for him to do every hour. He must have the time if all he has to do is come up with more work for an already overloaded staff.
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Thanks to TiaKay for the helpful link to the research study on which the Studer Group bases this current "sell" to the hospitals of hourly rounding. I quote from the credits of the authors of the research:
"Christine M. Meade is executive director of the Alliance for Health Care Research, a subsidiary of the
Studer Group, a health care leadership and service excellence consulting firm in Gulf Breeze, FL. Amy L.
Bursell is president of Bursell Research, a research firm in Alexandria, VA. Lyn Ketelsen is a senior leader
and coach for the Studer Group. Contact author: Christine M. Meade, [email protected].
The Studer Group funded the time and travel of the Alliance for Health Care Research staff involved in
this study. Each participating hospital funded any costs related directly to the study. Participating hospitals
are acknowledged at the end of the article. "
Anyone smell a rat?