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Originally Posted by tommymac
I have read about stuff like that in some of the journals, def a great idea to try to reduce wait times and move things along. I think there is a bit of a medical/legal aspect to some of it in that if one of those you send home has something bad it could bite ya in the but. I think some ER's in NY have implimented a similar system with good results. We are just so shortstaffed and underfunded here something like that wont happen for a while. Our director is handcuffed by the state so it limits what we can do. they cant even get any new PA's here because the starting salary is the same as when I started 6 years ago. back then it was kinda ok but now it prety much sucks. Were approved for 2 more PA tracks and they cant fill them for anything. Plus with the crew we have now if myself and 2 of the other PA's left they would be totally screwed since were the only ones who can actulay manage a busy room by ourselves.
Tom
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We're slightly less bound, being private instead of state and owned by HCA. I think the process has been rolled out in almost all HCA hospitals, as well as some of the other private ones. I know they've got a good list of standards that aids in eliminating as much of the legal liability as possible and the PA/Dr's have the final say and tend to err on the side of caution if something even approaches a gray area. Sucks about the staffing situation you have to deal with. I've seen it in other places as well. I can't say how the pay is in our hospital in particular, seeing as how I'm on the bottom rung of the whole deal, but there seems to be no shortage of people looking to get on staff, so I'd imagine it's decent enough. It could be another result of being privately run, but that's just a guess.