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  1. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    ACNORN posted a topic in Nurse Management

    I'm wondering if all of the salary wars, bonuses, incentives, etc. that are offered to the bedside nurses these days is removing one of the long standing advantages (higher pay) of nurses moving into...

  2. Help with unhappy ancillary staff.

    ACNORN replied to yankeecamper's topic in Nurse Management

    First, I'd like to say don't feel alone with this problem. I have worked in several management positions in different facilities and this issue has been present to some degree or other. The staff...

  3. sleeping staff

    ACNORN replied to night owl's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    I am outraged/embarrassed that we even have this discussion in my profession. Doesn't anyone see that sleeping on the job is STEALING? Your employer has HIRED you to perform WORK for a designated...

  4. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    ACNORN replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    Two very astute points llg & Glad2behere. We know that nursing leaders and advanced practice nurses have an entirely different skill set (in addition to their clinical one). I have seen many...

  5. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    ACNORN replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    I agree that we have to be assertive and make sure that we are paid what we are worth. The only problem with the comparison is that in other businesses you don't have the majority of revenues coming...

  6. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    ACNORN replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    My thoughts exactly. I appreciate all of the encouraging remarks. I took advantage of a discussion with our CEO about the nursing supervisor vacancies that we currently have to discuss the...

  7. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    ACNORN replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    I don't think my company is probably acting any differently than the others. I have to say we are very proactive with trying to retain staff RNs. And I have to compliment my company that the...

  8. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    ACNORN replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    Glad2behere, To pull in 130-150K I'd say you would have to pursue a Administrator position, or corporate VP of some healthcare company (again depending on location and the local pay scales). I have...

  9. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    ACNORN replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    Glad To Be Here, I don't know enough about your background to give a thorough response, but as far as formal education a BSN plus a MSN, MHA, or MBA is a good start. If you have only had bedside...

  10. scared to take management position

    ACNORN replied to maxter's topic in Nurse Management

    Maxter, I remember having the same anxiety you have expressed. I went from being a bedside nurse to a clinical coordinator of a small 10 bed unit, to a nurse manager of 2 units in the same hospital....

  11. Is your salary keeping up with your staff's?

    ACNORN replied to ACNORN's topic in Nurse Management

    Gardengal, thanks for your reply. Your answer is what I think is happening more and more. I work for a growing LTACH company and we are opening up smaller specialty acute care hospitals in many...

  12. short staffed

    ACNORN replied to alkat's topic in Nurse Management

    Hi Alkat, Staffing...............The age old problem........... First of all, I totally agree with all the comments of llg. I have recently had more of a problem with last minute staffing problems and...

  13. Sick call policy

    ACNORN replied to goldgram's topic in Nurse Management

    I have been reading all of these posts and I am so discouraged and depressed about the absolute divide between nurses who work in a management capacity and those who work in a clinical capacity. We...

  14. Charge nurse woes

    ACNORN replied to wendyssmile's topic in General Nursing

    Hi Wendy, Welcome to nursing management! I an a nursing director and have several shift supervisors who have gone through some of the same things when they started in their roles. I promoted them...

  15. Managing your friends/co-workers

    ACNORN replied to szerch's topic in Nurse Management

    szerch, Your situation is certainly not an easy one, but I've been in just about every role from staff RN up to the chief nurse. I learned a long time ago that I can't worry about making everyone...

  16. Listen, Nurse

    ACNORN replied to panda_181's topic in General Nursing

    I know we are all busier than we can stand these days, but there still is not a good reason why we can't do simple little things like making sure the phone, call light, and water are in reach of the...

  17. I can't keep staff. Why do I try?

    ACNORN replied to ClariceS's topic in Nurse Management

    Clarice, Sorry to hear about your charge nurse's decision. My situation has gotten somewhat better - I've been able to recruit 5 additional FT RNs. It took some convincing, but I have decided to...

  18. Management/personality isues.....input needed.

    ACNORN replied to CEN35's topic in Nurse Management

    CEN35, I can relate to your problem with the disfunctional employee behaviors. I love the way you categorized them - that is probably a good start toward developing strategies to deal with the...

  19. I can't keep staff. Why do I try?

    ACNORN replied to ClariceS's topic in Nurse Management

    ClariceS, I know how you feel. I spend all my time coaching crabby nursing staff to try to get along and implement an endless number of incentive programs to try to reward staff for positive...