Wow, I had a bad IT day!

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

A guy who was close to our sysadmin was fired ystdy, and without getting into details, it was related to another IT's spouse. So sysadmin has been snarking about coworker non-stop. I LIKE coworker and get annoyed at passive-aggressive sysadmin.

Sysadmin wants the CIO's authority without the responsibility so he's been snarking at her for a week. Constant snide comments. And I would go through fire for her.

But because his nose it out of joint, he's wasting my time by getting me involved in stuff that he doesn't need me on but he wants to exert some authority.

Meanwhile, this week was pre-install on the new patient care module and I haven't been at my desk much. And I do NOT get why nurses are so adverse to using the most important parts of the system - automatically kicking off diagnosis -related labs and care plans. Arms folded, "We don't need that. "Why not?" Thin-lipped, "I can do that." Sigh.

I told my boss months ago that we could not go to authentication with auto log-off in the ED months ago. We can't because they are running on laptops from 2003 with 256 mb RAM. It's the only thing on which I have ever opposed her. Well, she's so security conscious that after the reprieve I got us until after Labor day (our volume more than doubles over the summer) she insisted we go live. I've been trying to placate the DON, but this monring, when a chopper landed with a critical patient and the nurses couldn't order labs for life-threatening minutes she demanded that it be removed and it was. Boss had asked me a few weeks ago if it was just resistance to change or valid and I told her, in no uncertain terms, that it was decidedly valid. Funny, the RAM got installed today. With whining from the sysadmin about people telling him the wrong thing. Well, get off butt and WALK UP AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. And do NOT tell me that they can order via the phone. That is not acceptable.

Meanwhile, State is due any minute now and Risk Manger's brains are about to shoot out of her nose. We were dinged on policies and procedures last year so I took it upon myself to create a simple database and throw everything in, which my boss published to our intranet. It took me six months of fighting with another IT coworker who wanted to do this intranet and database and never published a stinking page. It went back and forth for months and finally Boss threw it back to me. We had it done literally within a week, and I have gotten over 1000 documents published and in a usable manner in under a month. So now cowerker is aggravated because he's telling everyone that he had it done six months ago. Huh?

So I'm trying to do some data-diving for the annual CAH report for the Risk Manager and resentful coworker needs help setting up a stinking PROJECTOR for a meeting. He can't figure out the screen or where to plug in the laptop.

The clincher? The presenter didn't have her presentation downloaded to her hard drive because every place she's gone permitted her to plug an unknown laptop into their network and risk all sorts of viral and HIPAA mayhem because they have unsecured wi-fi. I don't THINK so. We had to have someone at her place email us the freaking PowerPoints because

it had never occurred to anyone in her organization that not everyone operates sans firewalls and encryption.

So I get pulled away from crucial stuff - not to mention I still have to develop a training plan for the new system - to plug in projectors.

Part of the problem is the the IT guys - except my boss - really don't get that I do not have the same jobs as they. I have an entirely different function, and don't try to make me feel like an idiot because I can't configure a network. First of all, I know that I can't and don't feel dumb that I don't know how to do that for which I was not hired, and secondly, get over it. I'm a nurse who can code, not a sysadmin who can drop cable.

Thanks for letting me vent.

[kposies]

Here I feel your pain.

It can only get better right?!...

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

**sigh**

Most days, I love my job. Today...

I could actually feel some jealousy that I get to get/do training. The other thing is that one of the guys is now working odd hours, which was the deal when he was hired - he's f/t, but goes to school, and Boss promised to work around it. Sysadmin is seriously obese and gets mad when he has to walk.

Oy!

It'll calm down again.

Boss is getting really tense about the roll-out. I told her that I've been to a few of these dances before.

:)

[rninformatics, DNP, RN]

Old Southern Proverb:

Some days you tree the bear and some days the bear trees you.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Old Southern Proverb:

Some days you tree the bear and some days the bear trees you.

HA!

And in NYC, some days you're the pigeon, others, the statue.