Originally posted by Gravekeeper
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In my department we are technically supposed to have 2 full time techs per scanner. We have 3 scanners so we should be staffing 6 full time techs. We have 2 full time techs, 3 part time and 2 PRN. Most of the time we're running with 4 techs total or fewer on any given day because our budget algorithm doesn't allow for the department to be adequately staffed. We've lost our EKG tech for stress tests, so that's tying up one of us to do hookups instead of injecting and scanning. And our patients are sicker. We're seeing more patients who are full lifts, more of our unusual scans for infections and such, more patients who have to be on monitored floors, more falls, and a packed ER. And the entire hospital is working on below skeleton crew staffing. We're having to transport our own patients more and more because so often there's only one transporter for the whole hospital. Which again, takes a tech away from our actual work and puts us further and further behind. Not to mention the staff is overworked and tired. And tired people make mistakes that can kill patients.
So from what I'm seeing, the ACA created more problems than it solved. It needs a major overhaul because let's face it, we're not going to get rid of it.
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