Offload Nurse definition

Offload Nurse means a skilled emergency registered nurse (R.N.) employed by LHSC to provide Nursing Services for the purposes of carrying out this Agreement.

Examples of Offload Nurse in a sentence

  • Toronto EMS is pleased with the successes realized in these three LHINs and would welcome the opportunity to be involved in similar work and work groups with the Central West and Mississauga-Halton LHINs. Discussions have also focused on successes in the CREMS program (Community Referrals by EMS) and the Offload Nurse Program (whereby a designated nurse assumes responsibility for EMS patients on-site in ED in advance of the ED having an available stretcher).

  • Almost daily, the LHSC ED’s are short staffed, which ultimately results in LHSC pulling the Dedicated Offload Nurse as well as closing patient care beds and/or pods within the ED.

  • This is a 46% increase over the same time period in 2016.Since 2008, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care has provided Middlesex-London Paramedic Service with Offload Nurse funding, which is used to purchase hours of dedicated Offload Nurse staffing at LHSC to reduce ambulance delays.

  • Utility of an Ambulance Offload Nurse on Emergency Department Metrics.

  • Despite a $338,224 available investment in Offload Nurse staffing, during the first six months of the 2017-18 fiscal year (FY), LHSC was only able to staff 70% of the funded hours, resulting in a gap of 1,739 missed nursing hours, and a potential funding return of just over $103,000 to the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.

  • The hospital is funded by the Ministry of Health for one 24 hour registered nurse who oversees the triaging and placement of patients who is brought in by ambulance within the emergency department.Following the introduction of the Offload Nurse Program, some improvements were experienced in length of Offload Delays.

  • Based on input from Chief Bruce Farr to the Expert Panel on Emergency Department Wait Time Strategies, the MOHLTC announced in May 2008, that it would provide funding for an EMS Offload Nurse program.In this program, 14 emergency medical services across Ontario were given money to reimburse hospitals for the cost of providing a nurse, dedicated solely to assuming care of EMS patients.

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