A nurse manager is the RN who runs a nursing unit: staff, budget, compliance, and the schedule. Here is what the job covers, how it changes at a 25-bed hospital, and where the hours actually go.
Rostering and scheduling get used as synonyms until something breaks: a stale roster quietly builds a schedule that fails a survey. This glossary entry draws the line between the two and shows why every schedule is only as good as the roster behind it.
Per diem nurses work shift by shift, with no set schedule and no benefits, in exchange for a higher hourly rate. For a critical access hospital, a ready pool of them is what stands between a 5 a.m. callout and an expensive agency invoice. This guide explains what per diem nursing is, how it compares to PRN and agency work, and how a small hospital builds a pool it can rely on.
A critical access hospital is a federally designated rural hospital, capped at 25 beds, that earns cost-based Medicare reimbursement in exchange for meeting strict distance and emergency-care rules. This guide breaks down how a hospital qualifies, how its payment model differs from a standard hospital, and what the designation means day to day for the nurse managers who staff one of the roughly 93 critical access hospitals in Texas.