janeob

Hi! I am new to this website and have found it very informative. I need your help. I work in a small, rural hospital that has dropped in deliveries per year. We currently have about 290 deliveries per year which has required management to change our staffing. We used to be staffed 3 nurses per shift but now we have 2 nurses per shift. The problem is this: if only one nurse is needed, the second nurse is on call at home. Some of the nurses live 40-50 minutes from the hospital and they are not required to be in house or within the same time frame as surgery or our ob docs:banghead: I feel this is very unsafe. We are a closed unit so the second nurse only receives minimum wage. Management does not want to put a time frame in place because they fear that those nurses will either retire early or quit. I have e-mailed Lisa Miller and Kathleen Simpson for their input. Any input from you all would be greatly appreciated!!!!