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Case Study: Alternative staff schedules offer CDI opportunities

When Melanie Halpern, RN-BC, MBA, CCDS, CCRA, CDI manager at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)conducted interviews, she thought she had found the perfect candidate. But there was a catch: The individual lived three hours away, which was too far of a commute to make the typical nine-to-five, five-days per-week schedule feasible. So Halpern developed three options to illustrate how a flexible schedule for CDI staffing might function.

 

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