stevemartin

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1. Is your charge & triage RN included in nurse/patient ratio grid?

   stevemartin replied to KKERRN's topic in Emergency

   Karen, "How can they count the manager's hours...?" They just DO. They are administration and they use anything and everything to keep the budget short. Our hopital didn't get a raise last year....

2. Is your charge & triage RN included in nurse/patient ratio grid?

   stevemartin replied to KKERRN's topic in Emergency

   I am the Casse Manager for the ER. My 40 hrs and the ER Manager's 40 hrs and the clerk's hrs are all counted against our staffing ratio. We have 7 rooms (1-OB, 1-ortho, 2-traumas, and 3-basic) and...