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The more this happens, the more it ticks me off. Which it shouldn't, since there's no way I can change anything about it...but I've never been able to fully embrace the serenity prayer.
As upper management personnel in our system and others in the area receive award after award for their "excellence in care giving" or "excellence in management" and other such tripe, I am getting more and more jaded. Especially about the care giving one...I don't even remember the last time our CEO walked the halls of a hospital, much less actually delivered care (probably never, since only one of our upper upper management people was ever a nurse; the rest have business degrees.) I also know that morale is getting lower and lower at most facilities in the area as they continue to cut benefits to "regular" employees. It just irritates me to read all of these glowing accounts of how wonderful these people are and how much they benefit patients when the reality of the situation is probably that they know the right people in the right places.
Anyone else feel this way, or am I just getting burnt out on the lack of relationship between upper management and us peons?