From CFRA:
A nurse accepting patients from paramedics in the emergency room is credited for saving Ottawa Paramedics 15-thousand hours in service time last year.
As part of an Off-Load Nurse Program pilot project in Ottawa hospitals, a nurse is located in the emergency room to accept a patient from paramedics, allowing crews to return to service faster.
The 2011 Ottawa Paramedic Service annual report shows paramedics spent over 40-thousand hours in excess of the 30-minute target waiting to off-load a patient in the ER.
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