Computer | HBIC budget | For administrator’s use |
Office furniture and supplies | HBIC budget | Two desks, a printer table, a cabinet, painting the office, pager, cell phone, and supplies |
Nurse practitoner in-service | HBIC budget | Professional training (travel, registration, and incidentals) for an extensive introduction to hand-held blood analyzer technology (and perhaps 1 other conference) |
Medical education (weekly luncheons) | HBIC budget | Lunches were provided to residents on the Family Medicine Floor to promote and inform them about HBIC |
Physical plant | Approximation | No rent was charged to HBIC. If HBIC is implemented, rent for office and administration space might be charged. Our approximation ($6000/y) is based on the office rental cost for a similar program |
Administration, financial services, human resources | HBIC budget | Median of the salary range for a program administrator responsible for administration, the HBIC budget, and human resources |
Physician Director | Approximation | No physician was compensated in our program. If HBIC is implemented, a stipend for such a position might be required. Our approximation ($5200/y) is based on the annual stipend for a medical director in a comparable program in Australia |
Nurse practitioner administration | Time logs | Time spent training new NPs, administration, materiel management (ordering medical supplies), communication with other NPs, and vacation time |
Equipment | HBIC budget | Digital thermometer, opthalmoscope, diagnostics set, scale |
Hand-held blood analyzer (i- STAT), cartridges | i-STAT | |
Medical supplies | HBIC budget | Clinical bag (carried by NPs) and the band-aids, gauze, and other supplies in it |