So tired of the enept manager. Please give me some good sound advice.

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[size="3"]Ladies and Gents.. I am so burnt out already.

I am so frustrated I had to take a sick day off tomorrow.. It means alot to do this as I do not have PTO yet and that means a day without pay.

I have posted here before. I am new about 3 months with my agency. It's been awful since day one. I have opted to ante' up and stick with them as I have alot riding on this job personally. ( bread winnder, need benefits etc. ) I have done my best to get it together. For every one page of documentation I am use to doing this agency has 4. THe paper work is unworkable, and can you believe that on every nursing note.. there is a spot next to the patients MR # for sex, and age.. ( like that will change between visits ) I also have two managers who are so openly enept.. I can't help but be in awe.

Today at IDG we have corporate in our office to help our managers who dont' know what they are doing to clean up after a recent audit by the state... IDG I cam prepared, notes filled out, and ready to perform to the best of my ability to help my cracked program shine.

I was presenting a complex COPD patient. He is complex because he wants to be, independent, declines help etc. I reported that his pain on my last visit was a 7 ( grant it, this is not unusual for this patient... he often has chest pain, uses roxanol and poof, its gone..) I was just saying that my patient's most recent pain rating was a 7 and before I took my next breath to finish about the interventions.. my inept supervisor jumped down my throat in front of corporate, and my team telling me that I should of intervened.. with a pain rating that high.. etc.. this moron has been with the agency for 5 months.. you think she'd know our Mr Smith by now. His story is well known amongst staff. I answered the managers questions and then said openly... "You didn't allow me to finish.. I'd never leave a pain rating as a 7, this patient takes his own roxanol, by the end of my visit it was a 3 or a 4 which was acceptable..

I also found out that our staff meeting that was scheduled for Wednesday... ( all my patients have been rescheduled to meet the 3 mandatory meetings this week) was changed on the fly to Thursday.. no reason given, told today at 3pm.. Just this week alone. I have beenin 7 hours worth of meetings and have another on Thursday. My pateints are complaining, and I give out my managers name and phone number.. let her hear it. I am done.

I left our office and propmptly called off. I am so needing a big break... Please send some positive hospice nurse vibes my way. If I could walk off this job I would.[/size]

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Yes, I have talked to the manager that matters. The result? More meetings..

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Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice, Home Health.

KEEP WORKING THERE, BUT PUT OUT RESUMES AND FIND ANOTHER JOB.... Life is too short to stress at a job where they don't know what they are doing.....This is the place where you are just 1/4 mile from a patients home, but mgr sends another nurse there who is 20 miles away, if memory serves.....

Get out of that place. Too many places to work for that have their *chit together....

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