You may find that Emergency medicine in the UK may be in trouble if the same
principle is applied to consultant's amount of acute clinical contact (
follow up clinics are not ED work really!)
Derek Sage
Tauranga
New Zealand
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From: "mark nicol" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 7:19 PM
Subject: ENP qualifications /minimum nurse hours
> 1.How many departments have ENPs working without the R34 or other external
> ENP qualification,and what proportion of your total ENPs are doing the
role
> without R34?
>
> 2.I am going to an Industrial Tribunal soon to defend /support the nurse
> manager and division managers' decision that it is right to disallow a
nurse
> coordinator /G grade to work only one day a week because of lack of
> credibility, inability to keep up to date....
> Have other A&E departments written policies that a nurse who wishes to
carry
> out nurse coordinator role (usually G but often F) should work at least 2
> days/16hours a week?
>
> I understand some ITU's and some midwifery units have such policies and I
> feel this is an analogous situation.
>
> all opinions appreciated.
> Mark
> Macclesfield
>
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