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You may find this funny but I get acupuncture. That and a massage and my yoga helkps a lot. Not everyone does yoga but the acupuncture really does help believe it or not and come on. A massage will help everyone!

Hello Jeff, I'll be as helpful as I can. I have used many of the "heavy hitters" and a few small systems and have several opinions. Kronos - This system is a halfway decent timeclock system. When they installed the scheduling system in our facility it was a nightmare. it never completely worked. We lost schedules every once in a while, I never understood that, where did they go?! We entered them didn't we? It took you on average of 10+ steps to do basically anything and every time we asked for a customized feature it was never fully addressed. I always thought we were simply brushed off. Kronos was not a win for us and despite the problems management kept them for 2 years, I heard that they replaced them recently though. Don't know who with, sorry. Concerro - I only had a limited amount of use with this one. The system was sooooo much better than Kronos or Clarvia but still had problems of it being down often, or just not accessible and it being really hard to use. The system was trialed in my facility and within 3 months kicked out due to lack of staff usage. My department at the time used it for two schedules and then stopped using it. Cerner - Their EMR is great. I thought it was extremely nice of them to do custom configuration for us several times. Often times it didn't work and had to be pulled back and fixed but when it was working it was very efficient. The scheduling system was a nightmare though. I also used Shift Hound and found that the decision to use them was obviously made by IT because they purchased a system that couldn't do self scheduling. With an industry going to that type of system how can you pick something like that. I don't agree with classicdame that anyone can create a software. I have no idea how to program but I know that an ED is complex and with all of the shifts my current hospital has there is no way someone can throw together something to use. I hope this helps.

Smoking, yuck. I can't believe people still start up the habit!

Abuse, I understand that we are not customer service operators but we often see people at their worst and unfortunately have to be able to take a certain amount of UNWARRANTED abuse. I try not to let it bother me. I have been yelled at while a person was basically spitting in my face he was so close. I just think of something else and blot it out. Does it work? 1/10th of the time but I just keep thinking that I am in the right, as I most often am and these people, though belligerent, need my help.

CA is a crazy state, there is no doubt about that one. You sleep and you can wake up not sharp. Too many times I have woke up from a nap on the weekends worse off then when I sat down. Sleeping is a no, no. I do agree that there should always be a break room or reading room, as one of my last facilities had. Someplace to unplug for a moment. Too many times you can be fried, even in the middle of shift and make mistakes.

I agree with Clovery, thats the best way. Never start off with a lie or any deception.