Increased administration burden
Was recently notified by our medical director they are implementing twice daily MDRs (once in the AM & afternoon), eliminating round and go (we need to ask for permission if we need to leave early), and want us to call our discharged patients the next day to discuss how they are doing, answer questions, etc. they want us to log these calls in a shared word document.
Ironically we have frequent nonsensical hospitalist meetings and this was never brought up during any of them.
This is keeping in mind our census has gone up consistently for the last few months. Round & go was a huge selling point in me signing a contract with this group (granted I don’t leave that early but I like the freedom of knowing I can leave if I want).
At this point, I am looking at other opportunities. I already feel bogged down on a daily basis with high census + countless endless messages + MDRs + the inevitable admin/hospital meeting once or twice a week that is supposed to be 30 mins but gets dragged on to over an hour some days.
Has anyone experienced this transition to twice daily MDRs and if so - what does that process look like? And calling patients after discharge? It is my understanding we have discharge nurses and additional random ancillary staff to do this, correct?