bellzybub

To ask too many questions(a good thing), to be peer trained forever (Not really an issue), and to quit in a year to do something they think they will like (where I get frustrated). I am a psych NM so I'm always willing to give a new grad a try especially if they have psych in their background. New grads all want something "cool." I swore I'd never do psych nursing after being in psych for 10 years. When I passed my boards I went straight for medically fragile residential. Once I started psych nursing I feel like I found my soul mate.

I've used kronos in the past and liked it. Before that I was working with an excel sheet to manage the schedule. I liked being able to enter a 2 week schedule and it just repeated forever. I liked when people were able to use their ID numbers to clock in/out. If someone forgot their ID for some reason there is still no excuse for them clocking in late. I use to get the I couldn't find my badge or I left it in the car so I was here for report but couldn't clock in and ran out to get it.... However, We once had a little scandal where people were clocking in for each other using the ID's and were not even working on the schedule and ended up getting paid. They only got caught when one person got greedy and had himself working 80 hours one particular week...

If She is replying to your emails you are good! If I'm annoyed, not interested or bothered by that type of behavior I drop the email or text. There is no reason for me to respond to an email.

I'm currently in a position that provides an incredible amount of autonomy. I'm a nurse manager with a facility that provides single shift coverage. We are growing and due to the growth I will be doubling my staff at a projected rate of q2 years. A pretty awesome situation. I have plenty of management experience outside of nursing (previous career) HOWEVER there are no real policies or procedures for nurses/medical care in this facility. I now need to produce good & fair policies! We will no longer be a tight team of 5 people that works closely and in support of each other. So, I'm looking for ideas on EVERYTHING...We are 24/7 residential setting. So Holiday rotation policies, Vacation requests, "procedure guidelines," documentation guidelines, Per-Diem/Pool nurse policies or incentives ...Everything. The regulations for our particular facility are very loose and have minimal requirements. Our current policies do not work because they are designed to be all or nothing. Our Patient education policy is like 3 pages long and the policy for tracking and destroying narcotics is not followed and would be illegal if followed. I've been a practicing nurse for about 10 years mostly in hospitals. I've seen policies that were great and some that suck. I would love any input if you worked with a good policy that you liked.