"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Start at the beginning and work your way through everything that comes at you. That is my daily mantra.
- Meetings
- Schedules
- Staff Coverage
- Write ups
- Hiring
- Transferring
- All the things
Work 12 days on to get two days off. Every other weekend, I supervise the hospital to help out because they are short staffed. I'm in the office 5 days a week. So when I have a staff call-in and I put it out to the group who work 5-6 days a pay period with 8-9 days off every two weeks . . . I get a little crochety when the responses are:
"I have time scheduled to spend with family."
"I have plans."
"I'm decorating for VBS at church."
Guess what folks? While you get 8-9 days off each pay period, I get 2, so believe me . . .I UNDERSTAND that you have plans or family functions (I do too!) but I have 1/4 of the time off that you do to get the stuff done. And is decorating the church for VBS really going to take you ALL night?!?!?!?! But these same folks expect their shifts to be covered when they call in. God bless the staff member who woke up after working the previous night and offered to take the shift.
Frustrating!!
Then things that have been allowed to progress to levels of unprofessionalism. Oh My LANDS!!
Three nurses are leaving for various reasons and I'm asked, "Do we really need to hire a nurse?" 2 FTE, 1 PTE = 16 shifts every two weeks, Are YOU planning on working those shifts, because I'm not! Really? Was that even a real question?
The amount of people that are "offended" by anything that is said to them that doesn't agree with their opinion is mind blowing. Work ethic is SERIOUSLY missing in most of my employees under the age of 30. We had to include a portion of the orientation and onboarding on . . . how to use the telephone -- how to answer, what to say, how to put someone on hold, how to transfer calls because most of those coming into the workforce have been raised with smartphones. Swiping on a desk phone does nothing, so they just weren't answering the phones.
It's a wee bit overwhelming at the moment, along with the rest of normal life. But the fact that I had a weeks end off, away from hospital was quite refreshing. No traveling, no working, no driving, no plans with others. I think it was more refreshing than a glass of iced tea on a hot day.
I tore down a section of privacy fence. Added a coat of stain to the table top on which I'm working. Switched out my summer and winter clothing. Visited my daughter and took her shopping. Worked out. Read or listened to an audio book. Cooked. All things that I enjoy doing, expressly for myself.
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