Celebrating Nurses’ Monumental Impact
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By: Ann Geier
Published: 10/10/2007
We've all had it happen. After doing careful interviews and diligent background checks to find the person who is the right fit for your facility, you still hire employees who don't work out. If you haven't yet hired someone like this, chances are you soon will. But hiring a miscast is not as bad as it may seem. As you'll see, with a little ingenuity and imagination, you can find roles for these employees.
Finding a fit
The nurse who comes to an ASC from the hospital may prefer to work alone and may not think to lend a hand when her "own" area is slow. Or perhaps the tech whose gregarious personality was an asset during an interview is now getting complaints from your docs, because her constant chatter is a distraction during such "quiet" cases as cataracts. You need to re-assign these employees in a way that makes them productive in other capacities at the facility.
Knowing when to say when
Not every employee is salvageable. You can't, for example, get someone who works at one (slow) pace to be a good fit if your facility does a lot of short ENT cases. No matter what you do, the employee will slow you down, because there is a lot of equipment to set up and everybody needs to work briskly to ensure rapid turnover and to keep the OR schedule on course.
At other times, no matter how hard you work on personality clashes, scheduling conflicts and training, the employee still does not fit in at your facility. It may be time to help this person move on to a place where the fit may be better. At least you made every effort to make it work.
Bridging the generation gap at work
Nurses from different generations have markedly different work ethics. All you can do is assign staff to areas that match their work ethic and minimize discord. For example:
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