Sneaky Administration

[DesiDani]

What is the most sneakiest antics you encountered from administration trying to entrap a  unit or coworker?

[OUxPhys, BSN, RN]

Using COVID as an excuse to close our floor and having a group of doctors (administrators) attempt a power grab (ultimately it failed). 

[Jedrnurse, BSN, RN]

10 minutes ago, OUxPhys said:

Using COVID as an excuse to close our floor and having a group of doctors (administrators) attempt a power grab (ultimately it failed). 

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."  - Winston Churchhill

[Davey Do]

On 7/21/2021 at 3:50 PM, DesiDani said:

Would of loved to see the indignant look on the admin face.

And presenting Mrs. Edwina Bumblingham as the perturbed CNO:

 

[DesiDani]

On 7/21/2021 at 9:17 AM, JadedCPN said:

I've only worked in inpatient hospital settings, but I think that would be all the evidence I need to find a new job ASAP. 

First time I saw him I asked someone "Why is hiding behind the curtain? What is he doing?"

I was so confused?!?!? just confused. Yeah (((sigh)))

[DesiDani]

On 7/21/2021 at 11:47 AM, Golden_RN said:

Closing one unit in a hospital, giving every employee a pink slip, and then allowing the employees that were lucky enough to land jobs in other units to be bullied by other nurses for "not being qualified" to work in their new units.

Had to read that twice before I got it. Yeah that's bad.

"What the med/surg nurse is having a hard time in cath lab!?!?"

 

[DesiDani]

17 hours ago, OUxPhys said:

Using COVID as an excuse to close our floor and having a group of doctors (administrators) attempt a power grab (ultimately it failed). 

? I don't understand

[neuron]

Another one is being short staffed and admin knowing your short staffed. These are the people behind the scenes above the administrator, pulling the strings, 'approving' if there could be extra staff or not. 

[HarleyvQuinn, MSN, RN, NP]

On 7/21/2021 at 9:55 AM, DesiDani said:

A CNO would go in a patient room usually during shift change and turn on the call light to time how long we took to answer it.  Weird!?!?

 

Worked on a floor once where the educator would go in an empty room during shift and pull the code button to "test our response" and run unannounced mock codes. On a post-partum floor. Didn't give staff a heads up that this would be a new thing. From what I heard, she wasn't pleased by the response. I worked nights and missed the show. 

[DesiDani]

15 hours ago, HarleyvQuinn said:

Worked on a floor once where the educator would go in an empty room during shift and pull the code button to "test our response" and run unannounced mock codes.

There was a short lived rule that if lead/battery on a telemetry box wasn't fixed within a few minutes then a CODE BLUE would be called. Well after so many code blues were called because a white lead was off, the doctors got pissed and complained. That policy got scrapped.

[FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN]

Executive Director purposely scheduled meetings for times that I was unavailable so that he could funnel people into our program who were not medically appropriate.

[PollywogNP, ADN, BSN, MSN, LPN, NP]

Charge nurse job posted on the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving. 2 nurses from that unit both new grads had been “ interviewed “ and they asked me to apply. Called the manager of that unit Monday morning and was told position was filled! Wait it was holiday weekend, so I ask what unit is she coming from? Outside hire! Moving from East Coast to New Mexico. Phone interview apparently. How did she even hear about the job, I asked the manager when you just posted it 5 days ago? Something smells She was ADN RN with about 5 years experience. I was BSN with 15 years experience. Any ways she did lasted about 10 months then quit.

[sissiesmama, ASN, RN]

On 7/21/2021 at 9:18 AM, JKL33 said:

Nothing too mysterious; there is something off-kilter about people like this. They don't feel good about themselves and have big problems.

I thought my old administration was the only ones to do that.  I was at the NS and a bathroom call light went off.  It was a patient I knew couldn’t use his call light so I left the NS and went straight to that pat’s room to check on her.  

When I  walked in the bathroom door popped out the DON,  the ADON, and the risk mgmt head.   The risk mgmt person had a stop watch,  told me it took me 10 seconds to get to the room .  When they  asked why I didn’t ask the PT what she needed before heading to the room I explained the PT was  nonverbal and bedbound.   The said “Ah,  we didn’t think about that. 
 

Anne, RNC