An exterior view of the Regional Medical Heart of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties.
The Regional Medical Heart has carried out a short lived compensation program in an effort to alleviate the hospital’s nursing scarcity.
This system pays registered nurses about $70 an hour for a 13-week interval.
The nursing scarcity is being felt within the hospital’s emergency division, progressive care unit, intensive care unit and demanding care unit.
“The scarcity of nurses throughout the nation has affected the hospital and we’re providing short-term assignments for registered nurses at disaster pay charges to fulfill the wants of our group,” RMC President and CEO David Southerland stated.
“We have to implement this technique to draw the RN workforce to help the affected person care wants of our hospital,” he stated.
The technique was carried out Sept. 19 and can run by the week of Dec. 19-25. The hospital’s objective is to fill at the very least 20 RN positions.
“The short-term fee improve will enable the hospital to compensate RNs for a chosen time period,” Southerland stated. “This improve will offset the associated fee and scale back the usage of company nurses.”
Company and touring nurses are extra expensive for the hospital than common workers.
Southerland says nursing shortages are occurring because of the lack of accessible journey nurses and nurses leaving hospitals to take journey assignments.
