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I will take the petty drama (which I can ignore) over all the daily administrative stuff that makes absolutely no sense. I'm not talking policies and procedures to make patients safe. I'm talking all the bureaucratic junk that people make up to either a) keep their job and make them seem important or b) waste time. For example, yesterday I spent an hour and a half with a team of "auditors" who were looking at my security system.

Mind you, it was NOT to make sure I was safe and had the most up to date, or useful system. I would have relished such an audit.

It was to (and I really can't make this up) evaluate what types of locking systems we had on each door, write them down and TAKE PICTURES OF THEM.

My day went like this: (standing in front of one of our [open] doors) Auditor: "oh this is an SRP-4J" to which I snarkily say: "are you sure it's not an SRP-4T?" and the guy goes back and looks at the lock again, confused, and he says "no, it's a 4J."
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I realize I signed up for administration (because no one else wanted to take the job and it needs to be done) but holy moly some days I swear it is going to drive me absolutely insane. Once I retire I am going to write a book about it.

You seem to be making it entertaining though! I have found auditors to be somewhat light in the sense of humor department. It makes it easier to mess with them - you just have to pick the right thing.
 
I did get the auditors to laugh at me a few times. I pretended I was Vanna White with some of the doors, and once I told them "don't be alarmed... pun intended" as I was disarming one of our doors.

They preferred the dry puns and over the top acting much more than any of my sarcastic comments.

Ah well, sometimes I can be an acquired taste.
 
I will take the petty drama (which I can ignore) over all the daily administrative stuff that makes absolutely no sense. I'm not talking policies and procedures to make patients safe. I'm talking all the bureaucratic junk that people make up to either a) keep their job and make them seem important or b) waste time. For example, yesterday I spent an hour and a half with a team of "auditors" who were looking at my security system.

Mind you, it was NOT to make sure I was safe and had the most up to date, or useful system. I would have relished such an audit.

It was to (and I really can't make this up) evaluate what types of locking systems we had on each door, write them down and TAKE PICTURES OF THEM.

My day went like this: (standing in front of one of our [open] doors) Auditor: "oh this is an SRP-4J" to which I snarkily say: "are you sure it's not an SRP-4T?" and the guy goes back and looks at the lock again, confused, and he says "no, it's a 4J."
th.gif


I realize I signed up for administration (because no one else wanted to take the job and it needs to be done) but holy moly some days I swear it is going to drive me absolutely insane. Once I retire I am going to write a book about it.
The title of my hospital story book is "some of the beds I have neot slept in"

A really good book is The House of God by Samuel Shem.
 
Quote: Don't get me wrong. I have met some really wonderful Dr's and nurses. They are the ones who deserve kudos. The people I had trouble with were the nurse aides like I was. My first job at a nursing home...the other aides would cross through my name on the break list even......because I didn't smoke!1 That was just one of the things they did. When I went to work in the local hospital, it wasn't any better. Small town, good 'ol boy clique. Me. I was an out of towner.

I was also a medication aide as well as a physical therapy tech. But being as my certs were all in KS, I had to work there. Kansans...I found...are grumpy and have no sense of humor.
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1 degree this morning. We are one of the states that gets that nice Artic freeze that is going on.
 
MY SPORTSMAN ARRIVED TODAY!!!!!!!

Congratulations!

I would post a congrats on the Heritage thread but the off topic folks are circling their wagons over their.

That Union hill farm is local to me...I might just have to go over there and

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Get some of those Campine wanna be's they have there....

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