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Post by eabaker on Mar 30, 2020 12:00:22 GMT -8
Are teams being pulled on to support broader community needs, in an emergency response capacity? Our ACT teams have been called upon to assist with triage and prescribing for hospital discharges (outside of ACT teams) due to shortages in other areas of our agency. We are strictly telehealth and have time now, as we are fully staffed and not commuting from appointment to appointment. The ask would pull roughly 1 staff on a 10 person team per day. Will this be sustainable?
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Post by Chris Fournier on Apr 23, 2020 5:32:21 GMT -8
Are teams being pulled on to support broader community needs, in an emergency response capacity? Our ACT teams have been called upon to assist with triage and prescribing for hospital discharges (outside of ACT teams) due to shortages in other areas of our agency. We are strictly telehealth and have time now, as we are fully staffed and not commuting from appointment to appointment. The ask would pull roughly 1 staff on a 10 person team per day. Will this be sustainable? Eabaker:
It likely will not be a sustainable practice post-pandemic and is a drift from high fidelity ACT work...that being said extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. I assume given the fact that your staff are able to relocate into different parts of the agency that, if needed, outside staff could fill some ACT roles. I am thinking mostly in the nursing positions here. It would not be a bad thing to have a back up nurse or two in case your nurse needs to self-isolate or gets sick.
Something to keep in mind is when and how to have conversations with administration about how the sharing of staff now, a good thing, probably will need to be limited or not happen during non-covid times.
Chris Fournier
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