ments in 2015.
You've been at your present job for 10 years or less,
and your responsibilities are on the rise. In large
ways and small, you're cramming more and
more into your 40-to-50-hour work weeks
than you'd originally signed on for. You're
part of a growing crowd of shrinking super-
vision. "Less managers wearing more hats,"
in the words of one survey respondent. "I'm
a working manager with not enough time to
contribute to management duties," says another.
Why you're busier
There's a lot to do. Booming case volumes bring
more staff to train and supervise, if you can find
experienced hands. Many ASC administrators are
in charge of 100% of their facilities' purchasing
budgets, our survey found. Implementing and
learning electronic medical records and other
healthcare IT systems likewise takes a big chunk
of time. "I think that I do not need to be a nurse to
do my job," says a director of nursing at a
California ASC. "I feel like a paper-pusher, a psy-
chologist and an educator, not a nurse."
More than a few respondents reported the
consolidation of perioperative management
positions with sterile processing, human
resources or even business management
departments. "We lost our chief operating offi-
cer in 2012 and our business office manager in
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Pamela
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RN,
BSN
