Administrative staff are helping with routine support tasks like restocking personal protective equipment and distributing patient meals. Administrative employees with a medical background, such as the chief of surgery, also scrub in when needed.
“It allows us to do things that on any other shift might not have been done,” Marquita Turner, RN, COO and chief nursing officer, told WXIX. “Maybe your intention is to round hourly, and maybe without ‘Helping Hand’ you wouldn’t be able to round hourly.”
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