Every month or so my managers come around and ask all the staff on the floor a few questions regarding the floor, safety factors and hospital policy type things we should know. Every time they start with the question "so what's working for you?" I never know how to answer that question. I always end up staring at them "uhhhhh...I don't know? I like who I work with." Not exactly that but essentially that type of answer. I know they're asking the questions for feedback on what we can do to better the floor and I can give them a million answers about what I don't like but never what I do. I love the patient population, the rest of the staff, but I don't know how to answer that question in the way I feel they're looking for me to. How would you answer that question?
jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B 51 Articles; 4,800 Posts Jan 30, 2015 "I like that you are asking, and that you are committed to a safe unit. I would like to ask what you do with the information obtained by the answers, and if you use it to expand existing culture improvements, like ______________" (recruitment and retention, ratios, per diem staff, etc)Know that usually a manager takes people 1:1 on for a few months and asks them these questions and charts them into a "traffic light" sequence things that can't be done and why, things that could be in the future and wonderful things that happen--red, yellow, green. It is usually some journey to magnetism or some other journey.....Sigh.I may be old and jaded, but I do think that if there was real concern with the answers, it would be a "what is working and what is not" scenario.
chicookie, BSN, RN 985 Posts Specializes in Peds Hem, Onc, Med/Surg. Has 8 years experience. Jan 31, 2015 I usually say my coworkers and manager, what's not working for me is _________. Usually I say my charge having patients. One time I was having a really bad day and when they asked me I said I can't tell you because it's 4pm and I haven't had lunch yet. Within ten minutes someone came and relieved me for lunch.
JWG223 210 Posts Jan 31, 2015 I've never been asked "What's working for you?"I honestly don't know how I would respond to that. I am not in HR/Procurement/Budget.I'd probably look confused and say "Fine. Very well. How's your night?"
