Thought it might be helpful if I made the links sent by "Shine the light" active, so you can just click on them. Here they are:
Pera
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SEIU (Union)
CAPE (Union)
AFSCME(Union)
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Dept. of Human Services
Rights and Benefits as State Employee
Healthcare concerns
JCHO
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Use 'Em!
I know I'm using the Joint Commission's to ask why they are requiring that we all retake competencies that we just completed in November....(even if our CPR certs are not expired, we are to retake them...and our wadaya callit...CBI, CMI...the one where we learn how to fight safely with patients...that, too)...Now why would the Joint Commission demand that the hospital spend this money and this time, when we've just done it???? What a waste of our already stressed resources...why do they want this? I just don't get it. Waste of taxpayers' money, I think.
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g.f.,
The way I heard it explaind the retraining was not mandated by the Joint C. For whatever reason Staff Development had fallen misersably behind in retraining staff to their own standards. The Joint C. had pulled some personnel files that reflected this. So rather than wait for a deficiency S.D. decided to submit a plan whereby the entire hospital would be retrained each year within a very narrow time frame. Nice timing to do it in April/May when vacations are starting. I suppose they could have scheduled it in June/July or July/August. Poor Richard
I heard that it was the Socialworkers and the Phd's who had not gotten their acts together to get the training done...It was offered by Staff Dev. but the staff did not go....
Thanks for this info...but I still find this solution to the problem of some on the staff not having their competencies done a poor one.
I guess I view "the competencies" as the "ante" I pay in order to work here...I paid in November...with the understanding that it was a one year subscription...to make me pay again in May because my neighbor didn't pay in November seems wrong.
Makes me feel resentful...and lord knows, there's already too much of that around.
Why not have competencies twice a year..once in May/June and once again in Nov/Dec...catch up everybody who's overdue now, let the rest of us re-up in November, as expected.
Don't torture the many for the sins of the few.
Can we get the list of who was late and therefore caused us this pain?
And isn't anybody but me annoyed by the prospect of the Director getting a 331/3% raise (is this true????)while the rest of us get a "cost of living" raise of 3.5%?
Argh!! What's wrong with this picture?
g.f.
Oh! Sorry!! Sorry!! Honetly...that was a typo, and there's no way to correct a "comment" once its published....there should have been a space between 33 and 1/3...it looks like 331%...it's not...its: 33 1/3%. egad.
g.f.
You are only getting a 3% not the 3.5 % yea it is a mad house.....
oh.
....better than a sharp stick in the eye....
g.f.
I'm not sure that the director is actually getting the raise that the rest of the physicians are getting...at least that is what he wants us to believe...and, the clinical nurse specialists aren't getting that raise either.
itseems to me that more employes, especially nurses, 1 and 2's should be concerned about the lack or raises. Was it not understood that management was going to work to get our temporary raise from last year made permanent this year. In the minutes from the 2-28 nurse managers meeting it said"Deb shared that due ti outside medical costs, increases to RN I ansII salaries will not likelt occur this fisical year. Deb will keep advocating for this and keep us informed on any new additional information". Just above this"Anne gave us an update on the exit interview process, In general RNs who left cited low wages"... I'll bet the 33% raise included our nurse managers. So i guess if we ignore our clients medical needs, wse'll get a raise? Who in the world does the budget anyway? Ya think they'd remember to budget medical needs. And maybe our doc's could do a better job evaluating medical needs berfore admission. I was talking to a retired FT
loganurse,she said that in 1982 there was a nurse "sick out" , and I'll be darned if they didn" get a much needed raise. 9o% of the nurses were "sick and it was a big wake up call for management...maybe it's time for our managers to work a little harder for us. Some food for thought...Nurses need to think about this..management is obviously not working for us.
"Working Woman"
Very Interesting!!
A sick-out, eh?
hmmmmm...
Anybody else interested?
g.f.
The "sick out" was in 1986 not 82.Hard to remember since we've had sooo much fun since then. It did what was intended. The RN's were out I believe 3 days. Even had TV coverage. Great camaraderie (Spelling?) developed with RN's who didn't know each other.
The sick out was 1987. For the most part all were out for three days but most were out for five days. The only left working were the head nurses and assistant head nurses each working 12 hour shifts. And some pool nurses too. Yes there was TV news coverage. And yes we got our raises. If your sick more than 3 days, you have to have a doctors note.But to make this work you have to have a lot of participation or it won't work.
old and tired.
As I remember, the sick out had the support odf Ruby and Diane. Remember the old days when nursing had support from someone????
Well. So there is some interest in a sick-out for raises...I've been told that during the last one, (whichever year it was), nursing management supported the sick out and thus made it work; those who told me this added that such support is unlikely this time around, although I think there are some 3's and/or 4's who would, indeed, support such an action. Media coverage is relatively easy to come by...the hard part is choosing the day, making sure the word is passed, and getting all the 1's and 2's on board. During the last one, many staff spent their "sick days" together and that sounds like a good idea ... we could choose a location to meet, eat and brainstorm solutions, render mutual support and carry on in general...I seems clear that 3 days without line staff would produce a raise...Shall we go for it?
g.f.
I am all for a sick-out. We have no voice anymore and we work hard. It is time for some appreceiation for the excellent care that we give our patients. If we all (that means administration) shared in the budget cuts equally I don't think we would feel so ignored, but obviously that is not the case. Lets do it!!
I have heard that the director is going to also be the medical director also..When this happens he will be getting a very big raise for doing two jobs.......
I've heard that, too.
It's a puzzle, yes?
So, what's the situation here?....When someone has done a really poor job, give him a second position...now two jobs can be done really poorly for less cost to the State, but more revenue for the poor performer...I think the correct conclusion is that "he who does the worst job benefits most."
Therefore: If you want more money, perform less well....this obviously segues perfectly to, "if you want more money, take off 3 sick days in a row on the same day as everyone else does"
....doesn't it? Less performance, more pay...
Puzzle solved.
g.f.
Dear Bloggers,
Someone sent a comment to this essay that seems to refuse to publish, so I'm passing it along this way:
Somebody said, "Not all that would support a statement read the blog."
Sorry it didn't publish in the usual way..don't know what the problem is..
g.f.
I'm all for fair and equal treatment. If it takes a "sick out" to protest I'm willing to try it. I heard that there was a meeting of some of the RNs but was not savvy to it myself. Any info about this?
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