Meetings are the downfall of the medical profession. Every department, every committee, every idea must have a committee to go with it. Why? I just don't understand. Perhaps the company should hire people who just go to committees and leave those of us who really want to improve our department to manage what's going on in our department. After all, who knows better how to fix things than those that work in the unit?
But does this happen? Nooooooooooooo. Someone has to tell someone about a potential problem who then must tell someone else who then sets up a committee to check out the problem to see if it is valid to investigate. The committee does several months of PI to find out the problem with what is happening (when the nurses working on the unit could have easily told them without the meeting and without the investigation.)
After the investigation, the PI must be done for several months and discuss in detail what the department is doing to improve the difficulties. After the PI is complete, it is then sent to somebody who analyzes things and then brings it back to the committee to tell us things that we already know.
Meanwhile, while I am attending meetings for an hour or two a day, the ER becomes a complete shambles especially on a snow covered day like today. The hospital does not allot for someone to cover me while I'm gone to meetings and when I return back to the ER, it seems that my name is being called in a hundred different directions.
I need a schedule, a routine that gives me some flexibility but allows me to be with the people who are still working in the trenches. I want to go to these meeting to fight for their rights, but I don't want to leave them struggling to keep their head above water either.
What a dilemma!
Meetings are the downfall of the medical profession. Every department, every committee, every idea must have a committee to go with it. Why? I just don't understand. Perhaps the company should hire people who just go to committees and leave those of us who really want to improve our department to manage what's going on in our department. After all, who knows better how to fix things than those that work in the unit?
But does this happen? Nooooooooooooo. Someone has to tell someone about a potential problem who then must tell someone else who then sets up a committee to check out the problem to see if it is valid to investigate. The committee does several months of PI to find out the problem with what is happening (when the nurses working on the unit could have easily told them without the meeting and without the investigation.)
After the investigation, the PI must be done for several months and discuss in detail what the department is doing to improve the difficulties. After the PI is complete, it is then sent to somebody who analyzes things and then brings it back to the committee to tell us things that we already know.
Meanwhile, while I am attending meetings for an hour or two a day, the ER becomes a complete shambles especially on a snow covered day like today. The hospital does not allot for someone to cover me while I'm gone to meetings and when I return back to the ER, it seems that my name is being called in a hundred different directions.
I need a schedule, a routine that gives me some flexibility but allows me to be with the people who are still working in the trenches. I want to go to these meeting to fight for their rights, but I don't want to leave them struggling to keep their head above water either.
What a dilemma!