Hello everyone,
Well , I started clinicals yesterday at DRMC with S.D., the ER Director. We went over staffing for the emergency department and he explained how the ER is staffed on a daily basis. I also attended two meetings with him on yesterday. First, we met with the HR Director because there are a couple of employees who have been abusing the attendance policy. S.D. was Interim Director for a couple of weeks and was just offered the position full time on last Friday. He stated that the manager before him was very relaxed about the attendance policy and never address these issues with the employees. There are actually a couple of employees who should be fired based on their excessive absences and tardiness. The HR Director informed S.D. to have a meeting with the ER staff and advised them that they are all starting over on a clean slate with their attendance and the attendance policy will be in place effective immediately because it would not be fair to fire any employees regarding their attendance because the previous manager did not communicate this issue with them. I also had the opportunity to attend a trauma meeting. DRMC is actually trying to become a level 3 trauma center and the meeting involved the criteria for meeting level 3 requirements, including documentation.
Today, I had the opportunity to attend a performance improvement meeting. All of the directors from the various hospital units are required to present a performance improvement project. It was very interesting. The nurses presented data that was evidenced based. I learned a lot in this particular meeting. I must admit, prior to this meeting, I actually thought that statistics and the research class was a waste of time. I didn't think I would be using that information because I haven't in my 9 years of nursing. I am actually seeing a whole different side of nursing and I am excited about learning new information. I know this will make me a stronger, more confident nurse. Who knows, I may want to go into management after graduation. Well shall see.
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If you don't know at least a little about research and stats, you're forced to accept at face value anyone who makes claims based upon them. Since there's so much misleading and poor research out there, that's a real problem.
ReplyDeleteHow do you feel about the employee amnesty? Good idea? Bad?
agree that it is imperative for nurses to have a solid knowlegde base of research and statistic. This would help the nursing practice to effectively implement and utilize an evidence based practice to futher increase the quality of patient's care.
ReplyDeleteJust like Dr Anderson suggested, this would require more nursing research and utilization. I believe DRMC's performace improvement project is a wonderful quaility improvement initiative, that would serve as a management tool to improve their processes and outcomes
I feel that the employee amnesty is fair because these employees were not made aware of their attendance status from their previous manager due to lack of communication. This gives the employees a clean slate and everyone starts off on the same page.
ReplyDeleteTotal Clinical Time for this Week- 12 hours
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