Nurse Manager working in the ER

[Sherril]

I work at a 9 bed ER where the average daily patients seen is about 30. I was offered the ER director job. They want me to have 80 scheduled hours in the ER, and they are assuming there will be downtime to do director duties. Are any other hospitals doing this?

Sherril

[Nomad]

Hi,
I've worked in several ED's and have never been involved with a department that requires the Director to staff the ED full time. I have seen Directors try to both though and usually one area suffers. If they worked enough in the department to keep their skills at a comfortable level the management side suffered and vice versa. Seems like it would be tough to be involved with the Director side of the department, maybe not right there in the actual ED, when the department has immediate urgent needs.
Nomad