Here is a little update on my end. I got the job with CMS in Grants, we moved out to NM and the wife saw the drive and put the big KYEBOSCH on that idea of an 80 mile drive each way. So I found a position with the same company in Santa Fe. Everything was going along swimmingly and then today the deputy warden of the super max facility I work in decides that we need to see patients in the satellite offices deeper in the facility. Further away from the main clinic citing security reasons.
When I took the job they told me the satellite offices were rarely used. Our medical director had already put in his papers to resign (richer than God) and when they told him this is where he had to practice he told them, in a diplomatic fashion of course, to jam it. He told me and the PA I work with he would NEVER go to those offices. THat security is way to iffy to trust that deep in the facility. He has been doing this for 10+ years, I've been doing this for 6 months. He told both the PA and me, if he were in our shoes, those shoes would walk. GUess who is rich.
The PA who has been doing this for 20+ years, is livid for the same reasons.
We had a meeting with security and and our health services administrator and the DON and the charge nurse from that facility who used to be a guard, who also complained bitterly to me. They all were four square for it at the meeting. The meeting wasn't to get our input, it was a " this is the way it is going to be, tough if you don't like it so go ahead and whine a bit then shut up." We got no back up from our administrative boss or our new clinical boss.
Our new clinical boss tells us to not write narcs, but writes it like it candy. Tells us to avoid writing special diets, but writes them all day long. Needless to say not inspiring. He does like to teach, some, so that good. The med. dir. he replaced, not so much. THis is NOT a learning environment at all. It's not that I feel particularly unsafe. It is just a pain in the keister. But the judgment of the former Med. dir. is weighing heavy on my mind.
In the best of situations this is a very basic (we are lucky to have pcn) and stressful situation in the clinic. It's worse in the satellite offices (we call them the units). I almost quit in a fit of pique, but called my wife instead who told me that I have the right to remain silent. I told yes, but I don't have the ability. I got practice today.
Am I being a petulant child? Should I just suck it up and drive on and plot against them in my mind only. I have been missing NC pretty badly but the NP laws here are really good. SOrry, I just had to get this off my chest and there is no one at work I can trust except the PA and she just agrees with me a lot.
Oh yeah, my mother in law and niece are now living with us as well. Thanks for letting me vent.
I hope thing are going better for you than I feel like they are going for me.
