Madi & Me
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Post by Madi & Me on Sept 10, 2020 1:34:35 GMT
Aside from the obvious in the nursing field (patients crashing), I’d say placing an NG (nasogastric) tube is pretty dreadful. I loathe it. It’s a miserable experience for my patient and I feel awful doing it every time.  I do appreciate its value but the actual insertion is icky. I've been in this position, as a patient. I appreciate this. There is much about my illness and care that I can't stand, mostly because its been almost 15 years, but this, this is the absolute worst. Thanks. Thank you for sharing your perspective. I try my absolute best to be as compassionate and careful as possible with my patients. I can only hope they feel that everything I do is out of love for them and their wellbeing. Sending positive energy your way!  |
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Post by tiffanyr on Sept 10, 2020 1:59:43 GMT
Our clinic managers can earn up to a 15% bonus each year that is based on clinic performance. I am in HR...I do not deal with the clinical side of things...I am not in accounting...I know my way around a spreadsheet but I am no expert. Directors and VP bonuses are based on the same criteria and yet they are paid through accounting. I have no freaking idea how I inherited this beast of a project and it consumes the first 2 months of the year for me!! To make it worse, they change the performance requirements every year with no regard to whether it is possible to actually pay based on the criteria! Maybe if I worked in accounting, I might know a trick to extract the info from the various reports I am sent but I’m not...I’m in HR for a reason!!! I hate that I am dealing with people’s income! Did I mention I’m not in payroll either, I’m in HR!! It keeps me up at night for 2 months and I get physically ill every December just thinking about it coming up!! Every year I try to unload it and every year I end up having to do it!!!
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Post by whipea on Sept 10, 2020 2:07:33 GMT
I work with university faculty. We are not tenured and at will employees and there are certain teaching benchmarks that must be consistently accomplished. They are not difficult but some people have challenges meeting them so they are referred to me for assistance. I develop custom action plans with measurable outcomes, tons of documentation and extensive one on one coaching. I really dislike doing these since there is a 99% certainty the person is going to be terminated or will leave on their own. Often the person really wants to do well, they try so hard but just can't seem to pull it off no matter how much support we offer.
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Post by mom2rjcr on Sept 10, 2020 2:08:55 GMT
As a teacher, I HATE before and after school duty! It's like herding kittens. I also hate talking on the phone, so having to call parents is an anxiety attack in the making.
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Post by SallyPA on Sept 10, 2020 3:45:01 GMT
Notifying people they have an STI is not my favorite, mostly because they feel so much shame no matter how I frame it.
But the absolute worst is calling a health insurance company for any reason at all.
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smcast
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Location: MN
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Post by smcast on Sept 10, 2020 3:50:49 GMT
Aside from the obvious in the nursing field (patients crashing), I’d say placing an NG (nasogastric) tube is pretty dreadful. I loathe it. It’s a miserable experience for my patient and I feel awful doing it every time. I do appreciate its value but the actual insertion is icky. This is my least favorite job too. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Sept 10, 2020 7:22:13 GMT
Ugh, audits..... I hear ya! Our external work audits are always always held at the end of the year during our absolute busiest time. And I'm the lucky one who has to sit with them to go through it all. I'm hoping it will be a bit easier this year. We have been given training on using their portal, so they will send me what they require and I will gather the data and upload the documents in my own time (but with a deadline). I have had to apologise to the auditors for being abrupt on more than one occasion over the years.  But seriously, do your damn audit in January, which is our quietest month, not December which is out of control busy! Apart from that, it is emails. The never ending bloody emails. I currently have 4,278 unread emails in my inbox. I should point out, that is over a 12 month period, and I have previewed (most of) them. |
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Post by Zee on Sept 10, 2020 8:25:06 GMT
Mostly I dread overbearing family members and patients who fancy themselves medical experts thanks to the internet. The ones that feel they have to threaten you into taking proper care of dad, as if I wouldn't do my job unless I was informed that so and so is an attorney and their other daughter is the "head nurse" etc etc.
I'm not impressed by that and I'll take just as good care of them even if they didn't have assholes for family members, thanks anyway. And I don't care what Dr Google told you about some mystery diagnosis I should be looking at while they're here for a completely unrelated complaint. This isn't an episode of House. We're not ordering special tests at 2AM because you think we should and it doesn't work like that.
One guy demanded we give him blood because he's read up about GI bleeds and he knows he needs blood and just because the Dr didn't order it, he KNOWS there are "work-arounds". Lol no, there are no work-arounds for blood transfusions, full stop.
Most people are not like that but the ones who are are just make the job so much more unpleasant.
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Post by fkawitchypea on Sept 10, 2020 12:30:27 GMT
After reading what teachers and medical professionals have to deal with mine isn't so bad. I am the manager of a unit in a government agency that issues penalties. It's my job to deal with all of the people who want to "talk to the manager". I hate calling people who want to complain about the penalties we issued 2 years ago and they failed to pay, but now have no money due to covid. I have been called some pretty nasty things over the last 6 months.
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I do appreciate its value but the actual insertion is icky. 
But seriously, do your damn audit in January, which is our quietest month, not December which is out of control busy!
