Andy Droid

unless the job you don't like has a MASSIVE advantage (lots of money) over the other one, I'd say get a decent car with a half decent stereo and enjoy the drive every day. Sure, the closer job would allow more time with the relationship.... but if you're not happy in the job, and are miserable every day at work, it's bound to spill over into the personal life.

90% of the daystaff where I work are princesses. We've been referring to them as such for a few years.

Does everyone who's going in to observe read the PTs consent form to see if they've crossed out that part? edit: Pretty much figured consent forms were frequently ignored... you just happened to catch yourself being violated. Who's to say what happens when a PT is out. if I ever need surgery, I'm going to insist on a trusted loved one be at my side the entire time with a cam corder.

Never do anything you wouldn't do if they just asked. if they take back the plate of cookies, then oh well... your job isn't worth a few cookies. Unless they're ~REALLY~ good cookies.......

1- get a safteypin and glue a piece of magnetic sticker/tape to it 2- put a washer in your badge cover. pin the pin to your shirt at the right spot so it grabs the washer, and it "should" keep the badge from flipping and spinning every time you move. From the average PT's point of view, you're a random stranger. How much of their info do you have access to before you ever meet them? A stranger walking in the room giving you drugs, asking personal questions, or "doing things" to your nether regions Vs a stranger getting your publicly listed phone number, address (if the phone number is listed), finding out what school you went to, or other info if you're silly enough to put stuff on facebook and make your profile public..... which one is scarier? Don't get me wrong.... I couldn't care less what a persons last name is, as long as there's some way to identify them should the need arise later. A photo and first name and a 3 digit number is fine. (incase the hospital has 752 John's with the last name starting with the letter S working... you don't want to have a huge number to remember... but "John 489" is easy enough)

I've always kinda been a substance over flash kinda guy.... I'll take the reliable but beat up bondo-mobile over the shiny new sports car that doesn't actually start any day.

Assuming you change to a different set of clothes when needed (an incident at the start of shift leaves you covered in blood, urine, or other.... uh... "residues".... you're not going to wear those same clothes all day, right? )... and assuming you don't make a habbit of balancing sterile things like meds, bandages, foley tubes, needles, etc on your leg before use... ... then I really don't see the importance of what material your pants are made of. You think with your brain, not your fabric afterall....

Uh.... I kinda do watch cashiers pretty close. (especially when I'm buying a lot of items.... I've caught the scanner double-entering items a few times)

Where I work, most communication with co-workers is done over email (well... the ones who work a different shift and would be looking for me to swap with.... the ones I see pretty much work the same shift as I do, so they can't really swap with me) I keep a .txt file of dates, and when folks ask me to swap, I simply send them back the list of days I needed off but didn't get, and a note at the bottom that says "Insert whatever your excuse was that you used when I needed a day off here". Not too many folks bother asking anymore....

"but perhaps you guys have been following the latest media frenzy: the need to have drs orders for sunscreen in school" I actually had to google that to make sure it wasn't a joke. (haven't heard of this before) Wow... just..... wow.

Nope. I think I'm scratching hard enough to draw blood soon.... I don't have kids, but my nephew comes over for lunch a lot... I'd be bloody furious if the kid was sent home with even a chance of a head full of critters and nothing said.

As long as my paycheck clears, and the working conditions are acceptable for the money I get paid.... then I'm good. Guess again. We had one "super special" manager who would give us write ups and put them in our personnel file if he thought we were slouching too much at the keyboard. (added some BS about it being a personal injury hazard) And yeah... we get the "you're a unique snowflake who's vital to the company" song and dance.

When I read the title of the thread ... "Lacking Conflict Resolution and Delegation Skills...Really?".... my first thought was that an easy way to demonstrate both at the same time would be to simply say "get someone else to do it" and turn and walk away..... delgation and ending a conflict in one fell swoop, so to speak.

I've always been a fan of pendants as gifts. You can usually find something related to why you're giving it, or related to their interests, and unique enough to stand out and be remembered.

Wow... 11 pages. Anyhoo, I haven't gotten through all of them, but.... What about kids shows like sesame street? My brother got sent to Japan for several months for work, and yeah, he had an assigned translator... but he made the effort to learn a bit of the language, and did so by watching kids TV shows.

I'm all in favor of actually being able to do the job you're trying to get hired for. If the job requires you to be able to perform physical tasks, then you shouldn't have issue demonstrating your ability beforehand. it's no different than doing a road test for a drivers license.

I'd deffinately imform the powers that be of someone trying to get into a position of authority / responsibility / trust that has personality / control / anger issues. That being said, I wouldn't judge too harshly on the whole shoving thing... we have no way of knowing what the back story is, and how much crap he had to put up with before the shove.... did the kid get in his face and stay there, or did she simply say one thing he didn't like? and if the shove was a simple "shut up" kinda half shove that bumped her into the wall, or a two handed "**** YOU" that put the kid through the drywall.... Not that either is really acceptable, but everyone has a breaking point, and if the kid pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed and pushed.... eventually you kinda get what you have coming. (kind of like if you walked up to a dog and started kicking it... following it around all day kicking at it... nobody should really blame the dog when it turns and bites you....)

I love how so many places (non medical included) respond to concerns about an impossible workload by helping out the day staff (which are usually already outnumbering the night shift)

*puts popcorn away, walks away slightly disappointed*

Unless you're shaving seconds that are going to be spent saving someones life, shortcuts are usually never a good thing. I would just assume the karma gods gave you a pass by having nothing bad come of it, and use the remorse as a reminder, but not dwell on it.

Use the guilt as a reminder to not do it again. (take shortcuts that could lead to harm) I would add "no harm no foul", but have no idea the severity of the shortcut or what you preceive as "no known harm".

I always keep notes (contacts name, where they're from, email addy, phone #, and what I was talking to them last about) Keep it at my phone by my computer so I can act like I have a clue who I'm talking to when I answer the phone. Makes me feel smarter when someone can call up out of the blue and I know who they are and likely what they want.

immigration issues aside, wouldn't the hospital itself have some sort of rules against knowingly letting someone using an alias? For billing reasons ( as mentioned above) or someone trying to get multiple prescriptions if nothing else would be my guess for most places having something to say about the topic.

The orriginal post doesn't give any kind of a time frame for how long this has been going on, and to the contrary, says that people are quiting (in the proccess of it) and in the UPCOMING months there will be some huge gaps. Prior to this we have no way of knowing if it was a "one shift every 3 or 4 months" kind of thing or not. Nor do we know what kind of facility it is or the circumstances around the facility that may hinder hiring new people. ( a major hospital in a major city is a tad easier to staff than a rural small town clinic that takes a 4 hour dog sled trip to get to...) So, really... without a tad bit more info we ca't lump all the blame on the facility and just assume it's some kind of business model they're experimenting with. As for the "how is anyone supposed to make plans? as some one mentioned in a prior post, what about doc appts, kids events, parents stuff??"... wow... really? I get the whole "me time" thing, but to refuse to cover a shift or two simply because it's not scheduled several months out? or to contemplate quitting over it? If you're suddenly booked to cover a shift, and have some valid excuse why you can't, bring it up to the person who does the schedule. Besides... how impressed would you be if you went to your docs appt... or took your kid to their docs appt, and when you got there the door was locked with a note on it saying "a couple people were off sick, and nobody "felt like" working today.... sorry about your luck" ?

Just cross your fingers that the shifts are for (roughly) the same time of day... IMO nothing is more brutal than having to be at work all day for a few days then a day or two off then having to work overnights.