The East Mercy Medical Center recently hired a new assistant administrator, given the name Dorothy Jacobs. One of her first tasks is to evaluate ways to improve the costs of their hospital management related to the patient capacity in three main hospital wards: Obstetrics, Surgery and Pediatrics.…
The main problem is that nurse staffing ration is affecting patient's safety. Since there is no Nurse Technicians and not enough nurses, there is so much to do and not enough resources to help me. One of my patients is complaining of severe abdominal pain and the physician is angry with me because I wasn't able to bring the equipment to her. One of the actions I would do speak to the physician and explain to her that charge nurse is currently taking care of a serious patient. In addition, I will let her know that a patient who just had surgery is experiencing severe pain and I need to check on him first. The physician needs to understand that there are not enough nurses on this shift. I will also tell her that I will help her after I check…
1. Yes, I am a Surgical Inpatient Unit Assistant. My second job would be a clerical at the information desk downstairs.…
At that point, Janet had already received her first Letter of Warning for overutilizating the benefit in January 2004, and by March of that year, she had received two Letters of Repriment for the same reason. Nevertheless, not having any extended family around, she had no choices other than taking care of her daughter herself. In hopes of being able to count with a more sympathetic supervisor, Janet got voluntarily transferred to another division of that Department in May 2004. As Amanda 's condition, became really severe and Janet 's overutilization of sick leave combined with her failure on following the requirements established by the Division 's Handbook (which required proper procedures when taking sick leave) had leaded to both verbal and written…
Demands at work can have a profound effect on a person while they are working. As a medical assistant we perform a variety of duties, from scheduling patients to assisting with minor surgery. Working as a medical assistant can be rewarding and satisfying. However, taking care of ill and injured patients and the multiple responsibilities of the…
Members of staff, when they begin work, receive staff training they also have updates to this training when any changes are made. When they go to this training they will be made aware of how some service users in a setting are highly dependable on the staff to move around, get changed, to be able to eat (if they need to be fed) they will be told how to do this and how not to allow the service user to be neglected, like Arlene is, or forgotten about and any time whilst they are in charge of their level of care received.…
Even though supervisors state they respect that people have outside obligation, an employee’s personal lives are only considered when it does not interfere with the operations of the Billings 911 Center. Staffing levels have to be maintained even if employees are sick or have other events that require time away from work. Several times a week employees are forced to take overtime to cover for absences. It is a standing rule for both male and female dispatchers that if coverage is needed for an absence, the vacated shift will be split between someone from the previous shift and someone from the subsequent shift. Usually junior employees find it difficult to make family plans for fear of getting forced overtime that will interfere with their personal lives. If someone from the subsequent shift does not show up four hours early then the employee covering the other half of the vacated shift will get stuck on a 16-hour shift. Pressure from other employees to show up for your forced overtime is high. Employees quickly learn that work comes first when it comes to covering absences or else face the wrath management or other staff…
Use initiative. Assistants will need to be able to decide for themselves how to use their time if the teacher is not always available to ask. There will always be jobs which need doing in a classroom, even if this just means checking display boards or making sure, that resource cupboards are tidy.…
Concern!!!! Many assistants voices has been heard, but that's all. We are starting to feel as if there is no one we can go to when we have problems our only reasonable option is to find another job. If this rate continues I feel that there will more Assistants leaving 8th floor new and old employees. As a assistants I see and feel that we are look down on and there is no respect given to us by 80% of the nurses and supervisors. Now hearing from new assistance who have came and left very quickly the reason was because of the nurses attitudes and lack of team work from them. I'm not saying we all are perfect as assistants but most have stop caring because they feel that they are not appreciated as a human or a co-worker. I have seen, heard,…
How you address a patient throughout the duration of their visit can have a significant impact on the quality of their appointment. Being a medical assistant requires not only medical knowledge but a significant amount of social skills as well – making the patient feel important and respected is essential to having return clients. While greeting the patient by name is imperative, finding out the patient’s preferred title will help them feel more comfortable and improve the patient-assistant relationship. For example, a woman named Jennifer Smith could be referred to as Ms. Smith, Jennifer, or perhaps a nickname such as Jenny; whatever the patient favors should be used frequently to reaffirm a personal relationship between them and the medical…
When the number of patients per nurse rises, the time spent performing each these tasks falls and mistakes happen. While some tasks can be delegated to support staff, others cannot. Tasks are left undone at the end of a shift and passed on to the next in a vicious cycle. In my own practice, my colleagues and I believe we are working harder than ever, but feel that we are accomplishing less. Studies have…
I’m applying for the Temporary Resources Assistant position at organization. I was informed about this position through a current employee, Jasmine Revels, who believed that I have skill sets that will benefit your facility. I looked further into the job description, and I agree that being employed here would not only further my resume and build up current assets but also be beneficial to Cedars-Sinai.…
When my manager returned to address such a situation, the team agreed that a standby swap would be most suitable. The next scheduled person would take over and the absent person would…
there is a ward with four cubicles and each cubicles need one registered nurse and enrolled nurses and our break time is from nine clock to one clock afternoon. each of us have one hour break time. we are told that two out of four staffs can go for break at one time. but now our nurse manager said only one staff can go for break at one time but nurse manager never assign who go which break. fall risks decreased but staff complains of tired due to very late to…
During a typical work week she has daily task as well as task that must be performed at the end of the week. In a course of a typical day she has to focus on KPI, which are Key Performance indicators, they have a dash board that rates their performance, based on the critic needs which can consist of patient satisfaction or Physician wait time meaning, how long it took the physician to see the patient. Those are action items that must be dealt with to insure patient satisfaction. Making sure all areas of the front desk are running efficiently, such as insurance verification, patient check in, all monies are accounted for. At the end of each day my responsibilities consist of balancing charges for the day. Making sure the funds and charges are consistent with each other as well as making sure all insurance claims are filed at the close of the…