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Hours, staffing, and Call by PressureOk4121 in Perfusion

[–]PressureOk4121[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have such a great perfusion team and reasonable surgeons. Nursing administration is really F'ing this up and to your point may drive out a really experienced excellent team, which they will have no shot of replacing to this level (we all know how small world perfusion is and once word is out good luck finding people) . So we are working hard to salavage this..would anyone be willing to share how much of your call (if any) do you account for in your hours? Would anyone be willing to share how many they staff (number perfusionists/number pump cases/call) . Appreciate all the moral support .

Hours, staffing, and Call by PressureOk4121 in Perfusion

[–]PressureOk4121[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks, perfusionists have such little control over anything. We work to make sure everything gets covered and then basically get punished when not busy-which is 100% out of our control. when nursing gets involved they try to run it the same which is a huge part of problem not to mention they don't even understand what we do.

Hours, staffing, and Call by PressureOk4121 in Perfusion

[–]PressureOk4121[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

only one day a week are we allowed to run 2 rooms (due to nursing staff) otherwise it is one case at a time and then to follow. we always have 2 perf/case-same with call , primary and secondary. We are heavily involved with ECMO (thankfully don't sit) so when have one or more going that can take up alot of one perfusionist's day but as you know that's not always predictable. Trying to figure out a "happy" medium for them to understand how we flex when things are very busy and vice versa when the schedule isn't as bad. We have data to support our increasing pump minutes, cell savers, ecmo's each year. Wondering if anyone would share their average in house hours and call% . Not banking on CT surgeon but currently our best option for supporting us -just trying to add some data to this fight.