Beyond bucks: Best ideas for recognizing staff
Motivation means more than money. That’s a message perioperative nursing directors have taken to heart. The 2012 OR Manager Salary/Career Survey asked OR managers and directors for their most successful ways of recognizing staff beyond salary raises and bonuses. Most often mentioned by hospital OR directors are: • thank you…
Tying anesthesia salaries to on-time starts, turnovers
Better data coupled with an at-risk salary model for anesthesiologists have helped one academic medical center to improve its performance for on-time starts and turnover time between cases. The hospital’s surgical volume was growing, and it had to make the most of its OR time. Yet a lot of the…
A look at pay for high-pressure jobs
How does pay for surgical services directors stack up with that of other high-pressure occupations? OR Manager asked Salary.com for a list of other jobs that involve high pressure, high regulatory demands, and complex responsibilities. In compiling the list, Kimberly Taylor, compensation manager with Salary.com, says she searched the website's…
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