ledzep

Our Pediatric OR is going to apply for Trauma status sometime around the end of the year. Most of our staff have not worked with traums and are fairly "traumatized" by the concept. We are going to have specialty teams to include Hearts, Neuro, Ortho and General(which includes eyes,plastics,ENT,GI, GU and General cases) Right now we are not fully staffed for 24 hour call and only have in house staff on the weekends. Management wants a trauma call schedule in place by mid April. Right now we do not have enough staff to cover all the teams but we do have staff who are currently in a periop course and not through with training, so are not officially on the trauma teams yet. This is causing alot of frustration with staff who are going to have to take alot more call including 24 or 48 hr weekend. Our leadership group is having a hard time with the schedule and of the recent low moral. Anyone have any suggestions with the scheduling or transition efforts to help retain the awesome people I work with? Thanks

hi all, I am also a evening/weekender for spring 2008. I did'nt get accepted until december so I have been scrambling to get everything in my packet done. I'm not to worried about the med. term tests but the dosage calculation word problems bring back nightmares of algebra again....yuck. I also work full time and have a 4-year old, sheesh what are we getting ourselves into?