I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Centers => Topic started by: bioya on April 05, 2009, 07:39:14 PM
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I have been offered a job as Health Facility Nurse Surveyor for my state. I don't have to rush, there is a small freeze on that will last for a month or so in my state. If I get the position I will be surveying dialysis clinics. Oh my my my my.... YUMMY..
About 40 percent of clinics in my state are FMC, 40 percent Duh-Vita and the other 20 percent are private (mostly physician owned).
I swear on my parents graves, If I get this job, I will cut them NO SLACK.. Not one thing, not one turn of my head, not one "do it now and I won't cite you". NOTHING... I will dedicate every minute of every day I am in a clinic to making sure that the patients come first, and not the provider....
Its less money... but it would be a third retirement for me... (Military, Social Security (if its still there) and then state retirement). I really need to do it. I just have to decide if I can live with the reduced bi-weekly amount now...
LOL.. oh my my my my my ;D
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Good luck to you.
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I say go for it. But please be wise about your battles. :thx;
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:cuddle; bioya. Good luck with the job but as kitkatz said, please pick your battles. :waving;
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Bioya, please let me be your spy or let's call it a Secret Shopper.... I will pose as a "visiting" patient and see how the service is from the inside. Yummy!
:yahoo;
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Bioya, please let me be your spy or let's call it a Secret Shopper.... I will pose as a "visiting" patient and see how the service is from the inside. Yummy!
:yahoo;
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I like that idea... secret shopper.. lol
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I wish we could help offset you pay loss, because we really want you to do this! One of our own on the inside. :2thumbsup; Let us know all the detais :thumbup;
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I hope you get the job. They need someone like you to do it. *fingers crossed* Let us know how it goes. :yahoo;
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:bow;
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Go for it, bioya!
There are a lot of dialysis centers out there that need a good, impartial inspector.
Keep us updated!
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please make my clinic buy freaking cotton balls
and do you know what else
patients are not given coffee anymore ---- to save money
have cotton balls and coffee gone way up in price
and one of the patients gave our unit a nice, new coffee pot and a few weeks later everything changed
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did you take the job?
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Best of Luck and congratulations on your new position. But remember that there are probably many clinics who function very well indeed. Make sure you take time make the correct assessments and as they say 'Don't fix it if it ain't broken'.
I say this because my clinic was working like clockwork until a new charge nurse arrived on the scene. The golden rule as I understand it in all management techniquies is to play a low profile at first, quietly observing all aspects of the operation and then maybe after a week or too make any necessary changes.
Not this one. She'd decided to stamp her authority from the word go It was quite obvious that her first priority was to quickly impess her boss so right away without any consultation with the staff she completeley revamped the whole procedure causing confusion for the staff and ultimately long waiting times for the patients either in being put on or taken off.
It took about two weeks for the staff to become fully accustomed to the new procedures and thankfully now all is in order again. I understand many of the old procedures have now been re-adopted with just a few of the new ones remaining. If the charge nurse had left time to make a more considered assessment we would have arrived at this point without without all the grief that her dive in head first mentality had caused.
Please for the sakes of patients and many good hard working staff, don't be tempted to justify your apointment by by making quick face value judgements.
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Best of Luck and congratulations on your new position. But remember that there are probably many clinics who function very well indeed. Make sure you take time make the correct assessments and as they say 'Don't fix it if it ain't broken'.
I say this because my clinic was working like clockwork until a new charge nurse arrived on the scene. The golden rule as I understand it in all management techniquies is to play a low profile at first, quietly observing all aspects of the operation and then maybe after a week or too make any necessary changes.
Not this one. She'd decided to stamp her authority from the word go It was quite obvious that her first priority was to quickly impess her boss so right away without any consultation with the staff she completeley revamped the whole procedure causing confusion for the staff and ultimately long waiting times for the patients either in being put on or taken off.
It took about two weeks for the staff to become fully accustomed to the new procedures and thankfully now all is in order again. I understand many of the old procedures have now been re-adopted with just a few of the new ones remaining. If the charge nurse had left time to make a more considered assessment we would have arrived at this point without without all the grief that her dive in head first mentality had caused.
Please for the sakes of patients and many good hard working staff, don't be tempted to justify your apointment by by making quick face value judgements.
I will have written rules and regulations and company policy and procedures that I will follow. I will never lie or make things worse than they truly are, but in the same word, no one, no one, will be cut one once of slack. Patients must and will come first.
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Please tell me you work in Ohio! Cause I've got a whole list of complaints about my clinic!! No matter what state you're in though, I'm glad you've got our backs. Good luck!