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looooong day The past couple of days have been awful at work, all stemming from the fact that both our psychiatrist and nurse practitioner were out. Our NP was on vacation this week, though I didn't realize it until midday Monday morning after I'd already sent her 4 calls. Oops. Monday started out good. I faxed a request to our psychiatrist, and he actually, for once, called me back a half hour later and told me that he would see the patient by the end of the day. I couldn't believe that he'd actually called back. But then when I sent the other calls to him, I never heard back. Still nothing on Tuesday either. Mike was supposed to try to contact him on Monday, and then tried again on Tuesday. The psychiatrist finally replied, saying he had the flu and didn't know when he'd be able to work again. *sigh* So last night, I was desperate, so I called our NP to see if I could pay her extra to go out and do at least some of these calls. Nope. She was supposed to be moving, but instead, she's sick with pneumonia and has an ulcer. So, for the past 3 days, I had the pleasure of getting yelled at and threatened. And it pisses me off. I can certainly understand why the hospitals are pissed..I would be too. But I've been pushing for a solution to this problem for a long time--a couple years now? Our psychiatrist is an embarrassment, really. He's impossible to get ahold of, and if you can, and he says he will go, often times, he just won't go and won't tell anyone. Won't call me to let me know what happened so I can let the hospital know..won't call the hospital...and then just doesn't go later. He's rude. He's not dependable. And we receive SO many complaints about him from the hospitals. And what have we done about it? Not a thing. I keep pushing for us to find another psychiatrist, and we did think we had found one, but then he just disappeared. But nothing since. We used to have two NP's, but we lost one, and have not replaced him. And so we get in these situations where we can't send anyone out...and ppl are not happy about it. And I feel the brunt of it, tho less now that we have Jess. But she hasn't been here this week yet. *sigh* I just don't understand why we haven't done anything to prevent this situation from happening again. And why we continue to keep around a psychiatrist who really isn't interested in working with us, who continues to make us look bad, and who gets paid quite a bit of money for doing absolutely nothing. It's frustrating. And then this morning, I get into work, and my computer is not working. While I was gone, we got a new UPS, and after testing some things out, I discovered that although the power light was on the UPS, nothing you plugged into it was working anymore. So I grabbed a powerstrip from the other office and used it. But that was so not what I needed this morning. |