So you're wondering why all the II and III positions have now been turned into I's? Why isn't there any upward mobility? Just why can't we get outside pool help now?
I'll tell you. It's another careless and half cocked idea by the administration again. This being the decision to house two totally inappropriate patients on the intake teams. They never should have been here as we can't handle the required time and resources it takes to assist these patients.
I'm told now that we are $200,000 in the hole for these patients (which we won't be paid) and that's where all our raises etc. have gone. Now we can't even afford to pay outside pool to come help us out. We're supposed to rely on in-house pool and line staff to fill the holes. Has anyone checked out the sick calls recently? That should tell you that we are burned out and don't want to fill the holes. If anything, the overload is causing us to further burn out. Anyone see a pattern here?
Why does administration think that we can handle these types of patients and not pay the consequences? It appears to me that the danger risk is rising on all the units because we're understaffed and underpaid. Next thing you know they'll be asking us to volunteer our time!
The safety factor is the big issue here once again. Instead of fixing existing problems and bolstering the crew they keep dragging us down with these follies of their's. Right now we're barely equipped to handle our "regular" patients let alone special needs patients.
But of course we're told if we could all just follow the example that Team 1 is giving with the pilot for the "Recovery Program" we'd all be much happier campers and the units would be much safer. From what I've seen, the patients run Team 1 as the line staff have their hands tied with this new paridigm that we are being told to use. Seems to me it's just another in a long line of models that the mental health community keeps trying to impliment but as usual runs up against brick walls with no where to go. Do they really think that this program will help patients live on their own in the community? Most of the paitents are repeat patients and from what I see don't want to try to make it on their own. Of course we provide the out for them.
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I'm interested in the "Pilot Program" that's apparently implementing the "Recovery" model of treatment. Here at my new job, the "Recovery" model is big, too....often used as the rationale to stand back and throw one's hands up, as the client makes an unwise choice: "It's the Recovery Model!" we say when we hear that Joe's been evicted or jailed. What's it looking like in the Enchanted Kingdom?
I think "Recovery" means staff and patients get to recover from being assaulted. Then are asked "What did you do wrong to make the 'client' assault you?" (It's a hospital, they're patients.) What I did "wrong" was set a limit. Such as "Don't threaten other patients." The usual responce, "I can do any thing I want."
AND they can do any thing they want. The WORST that will happen is that someone or a goup from "THE TABLE" will come and "talk" to them.
Now that may be a scary thought for one of the staff but it certainly isn't for any of the patients.
There is absolutely no incentive for any of them to "Recover."
Isn't "recovery" its own incentive???
Staff continue to get assaulted, and treated like it is something they could have done differently by inadequaely trained staff that hide benind a desk. I would like to see them run a unit for a day even without the line staff.
It is the deterioration of morals and integrety,and all the capetbaggers who stay in comfy positions making piles of money off the dysfunction and chaos. Its an old tactic.............. old as the hills.........and those same characters...........they still send 'em from central casting..............nothing new here.
It is the deterioration of morals and integrety,and all the capetbaggers who stay in comfy positions making piles of money off the dysfunction and chaos. Its an old tactic.............. old as the hills.........and those same characters...........they still send 'em from central casting..............nothing new here.
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