JEM1974

I'm definitely becoming a dumping person for new tasks that keep coming up. I've been told I should be able to do everything in 12 hours, so why is it taking so long? Seriously? I even had someone complain that I wasnt helping them enough, when more than half of my work time is helping other NM, instead of doing my job. Its frustrating. Other NM act like I was hired to be their assistant and quality control, infection control, safety management, emergency and disaster prep, admit assist, recruiting, taking on call, helping fill schedule isn't time consuming at all. Sorry for the rant.

Yes, this is something I am worried about. There is a lot on my plate. There are several tasks that were not part of my job description that have been handed off to me. When I mention the abundance of responsibilities I am told that I need to figure out how to organize my time. I am a very organized and diligent person. So this is insulting to me. It is comforting to me that others see this as an overload of tasks as well. Thank you.

That nurse was out of line. First, should never reprimand in front of other patients or staff. Not that you needed to get reprimanded......She sounds like a bully. I agree with another poster that said to prepare your words and have a professional, but clear response for next time this happens. Stand your ground.

Most everything you mentioned above, I am responsible for. We do not have a staff development coordinator in the facility anymore. I think a lot of those tasks are being handed off to me. I am responsible for emplyees drug screening, influenza vaccines, Hep B, TB, and patientsi nfluenza and pneumonia compliance. With safety the maintenance team and do fire and alarm checks and drills, I monitor Compliance of it. As far as new admits I help do new admitting orders, apts, advance directives, order clarification, address issues iin the transmission of orders. Currently I am on call every 5th week and one day during the week. I am also responsible for a continuous survey readiness process that we have. That is intended to keep us survey ready all year...hopefully. I am not responsible for care conferences and we do have a MDS coordinator. * P.I.P is performance improvement process. When an area of concern is identified based on data and priority, we have a PIP meeting to try and brainstorm new processes for improvement. We then initiate those process changes and monitor for effectiveness.

I am a new QAPI coordinator in LTC. I am curious what other QAPI coordinators job responsibilities entail. Here are mine: Quality control - Tunning data reports, analyzing them, providing education, aidits audits audits, initiating PIPs plus initiating tasks as a result of those PIPs. Infection Conttol - monitoring infections, reacting as needed to those infections, monitoring community trends, antibiotic stewardship education to everyone, maintain supplies. Safety Manager - incident reports , routine rounding to identify issues and adress those issues. Maintain emergency and disaster plan. I am now responsible for online learning for staff and tracking and sending out audits as needed. Podiatry cares and visits, track licenses and follow up if needed, recruiting new admits plus assist with admit of new person, work as floor nurse as needed, I'm probably missing something. But is this typical responsibly for QAPI coordinator? Thanks for your input.