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Friday, November 30, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Nurses .
From page one
In July, 137 more positions were added for intensive care areas.
Currently most of the 228 positions are not filled, and as a result, the Med Center no longer releases the number of open positions.
"WE FEEL THAT since there are quite a few positions open, that might keep new nurses from coming to us to work," she said.
The problem is not having enough nurses. The problem is getting them to work at the Med Center, she said. "Before we had the staff, we didn't feel how we feel like we are pretty competitive."
Starting pay at the Med Center for beginning RNs is higher than at any other Kansas City hospital. Med Center RNs begin at $6.26 an hour, or $1.08 a month. Oatland Community Hospital pays the second highest rate in St. Lake's and St. Joseph's pay $6 an hour.
Benefits had been another problem at the Med Center. But Eisenbise said now that the Med Center paid nurses on a new system—difficulty—the situation had improved.
"WE BEGEN THE SHIFT differential on July 1. With this system we pay more for evening and night work and it has made a difference," she said.
Nurses working the evening shift (3-11 p.m. m: make 5 percent more than nurses who work the day shift. On the night shift (11 p.m. a:m. a:m), the increase is 10 percent.
Although the wages are competitive, a lack of nurses is still evident at the Med Center's Bell Memorial Hospital, Eisenbise said.
The intensive care units, the burn center and the neonatal areas are the shortest staffed, she said.
"Intensive care is the priority because that's where the sickest patients are. We've doubled our capacity for patients but not the nurses." she said.
eque RN who works in intensive care at the Med Center also thinks the shortage is most evident there.
PAULA VOGT, who works in surgical ICU, said the number of surgeries were scheduled according to how many nurses would be on duty to take care of the patients.
ICU has room to accommodate 24 patients at one time but only about 14 are admitted because there are not enough nurses, Vogt said.
There are plenty of patients out there waiting to get in, but there aren't just ants and bees. We've seen Vagt, who is usually in charge of two patients during one shift, and at times, three
Vogt said she thought the nursing shortage was due to the rapid turnover in nurses at the Med Center.
Most new nurses work here for a while
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EISENIBE AGREED WITH Vogt that the turnover was high. Nurses usually work at the Med Center for a year to a year and a half, she said.
"In private hospitals in the suburbs' it more like a family type deal where everyone is pretty much settled. At KU it's an atmosphere where everyone is moving, more transient," Vogt said. "It makes a vicious circle. Once the hospital is closed, they want you work overtime. So you want your tail off and you get tired of it."
Vogt said she worked overtime a lot when she first started at the Med Center in June of 1978 but now she only occasionally worked overtime.
"The first eight months or so the money seemed worth it, but after a while your time becomes more important."
Vogt said she thought the inner-city location and the fact that it was a state hospital might keep some nurses from working at the Med Center.
"SOME PEOPLE JUST CAN't like the idea of a state institution. It's so big," she said. "However, KU really is trying to recruit more nurses. They've made some good steps in the shift differential and in a trip to the new hospital will have some kind of entirement."
The nursing staff at the hospital comprises mostly nurses in their early 20s, Eisenhise said, and their age has caused problems in getting nurses to work there.
"The younger nurses want more free time. They want to work in the day, so many choose to work in doctors' offices or school care practices," she said. "Very few like the longer hours. We just beg people to work overtime. We are covered by nurses working overtime. We let them work as much overtime as they want."
The expansion has had an impact on the shortage. We also have more and better equipment to make more efforts to keep patients alive. That has all had an impact
EISENBISE SAID that the addition of Bell Memorial Hospital also had contributed to the shortage.
To alleviate the shortage, Elsenise said, the Med Center launched a media campaign in October to recruit more nurses.
Eisenbise said the new equipment allowed the hospital to take more patients and resulted in the need for more nurses.
In October, Private funds totaling $9,624 were paid to a consultant who composed four displays and newspaper displays for the local media.
In addition, the consultant prepared posters and pamphlets that were sent nationwide to nursing schools.
Each station charged between $2,000 and $2,800 for the ads. A total of $15,100 in state money from the Med Center's advertising burden paid for the ads. Mann said.
"We advertised for four weekends on six Kansas City radio stations." Richard Mann. University director of informational systems, said.
AS A RESULT of the campaign, six nurses have been hired and costing the hospital $129,000 for 8,400 doses of vertising, according to Susan Shipley, director of University Relations at the Med
In addition to the campaign, the School of Nursing also increased its class size this fall.
The campaign may begin again after the holidays, Shinley said.
In chapter 10, the author describes ditional students, according to Doris Gietjege, dean of the School of Nursing. The normal class size was 87.
"It had better help with the shortage because it takes about three nursing students to retain one RN," she said.
The increase in the number of students
GETGEY HAS ASKED Med Center administrators for permission to hire 19 new instructors, a request that must go through the ethics committee and the Legislature to gain approval.
"I requested nine faculty positions last year but got two instead. i hope we can do better this time," she said.
Final approval on the positions probably will not be made until the Legislature acts on the budget sometime in April.
enrolled in nursing school had added to the need to increase the faculty. Gietveen said.
The increase in the student body without an increase in faculty has kept several nursing students out of certain classes, and to Phyllis Thompson, senior class president.
"By the time we know, it will be too late to recruit any instructors," she said.
"The Board of Regents it would have to increase the faculty but the Legislature didn't appropriate the money. The program is more or less suffering from that," she said.
THOMPSON SAID that many of the senior nursing students were not getting into the clinical practices of their choice because of the understaffed faculty.
Clinical practice is conducted in the spring of every semester for the second-year students. The students choose a field of study and attend a semester seminar practice in that area of the hospital.
most of the nurses wanted in the medical-surgical field but they can't offer enough courses because of the lack of faculty to teach it." Thompson said.
instructor, and under state regulations that ratio cannot be increased.
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According to Darius Geiss, undergraduate dean of the School of Nursing, nearly 26 students requested to be in the medical-surgical area for the spring semester.
there was no way we could do that,
about half of the class got into the field," she said.
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THOMPSON SAID the reason so many students were not given their first choice was that not enough money was appropriated to hire additional instructors.
The clinics have a 7-1 ratio of students to
Bark Brumme, junior class president, said that petitioning the Legislature was the key to getting a faculty increase by next year.
"If the quality of teaching goes down, it's not because of the faculty," she said.
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"LOTS OF NA ITS (first-year students) are asked to give out medications to the patients because there aren't any nurses around to do it," she said.
Nursing students are not allowed to distribute medication until their senior year and would be legally liable if anything would go wrong.
Thompson said that sometimes students were under pressure to pass out medication on the evening shift.
"Sometimes there is only one LPN around and there are so many sick patients, you feel and about leaving it all for her. But you have to think, is my neck or theirs?"
"Sometimes it's very spooky to work here because there is too much pressure when you have to handle too many patients," she said.
She also said the shortage of nurses was keeping other nurses from working at the Med Center.
Thompson said that it was not always possible to have a nurse manning the floor, and that the nursing services department knew she would be short of her knew the floor would be short of RNs.
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