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Our nursing college is undergoing its reaccreditation. What a fun week…not..You spend a year getting ready and they still think of stuff they want to see that you can’t just instantly put together. Can hardly wait until they leave at noon tomorrow. Two of our more staid staff were asking for alcohol at 7:30 this morning when I asked if I could help with anything. | ||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
A little splash of the good stuff in your coffee works wonders, and nobody's the wiser.  ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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I understand completely. I worked in a medical prison, and we always had a difficult time with the accreditation. It really does take a year to prepare, and a huge amount of paperwork that kind of seemed useless to me. | |||
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Most of it always is. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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Somehow the most ignorant are on the Accreditation committee. They find issues that need remediation and have nothing to do with patient care. They do tend to pore over the Policies and Procedures Handbook for hours. | |||
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Well, I understand (unofficially) that we did well. There are always a few points they want improvements on, and I believe tweaks will be requested on some data collection areas. Thank goodness it is done. | |||
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Of course there will. It's hard to justify their job (and their paycheck) if they don't find something to whine about. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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I honestly don’t know how our faculty and deans are supposed to do it all. Teaching full time, being pretty much 24/7 available to students, committees, meetings, research/publishing, plus they are all required to work another job enough hours to maintain their nursing licenses. For very little pay, compared to what they could make in full time practice. | |||
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Yep. I had my fill of teaching and went into independent practice 43 years ago. It is stressful, but always challenging. | |||
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Pretty much why they are mostly older and retiring all the time. You do it for a while when full time nursing has gotten to be too physically and emotionally demanding. | |||
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I bet your school could have hired accreditation consultants - people who even actually wrote the latest set of guidelines. That’s the scam with the FDA / ISO regulations. Bureaucrats revise the standards in such a convoluted way. Then surprise, surprise, when the new regulations become effective, the people who wrote the complicated rules in the first place hire themselves out to help companies navigate the new rules. And their pitch is: “I helped write the rules so I know them.” "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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You give the 'inspectors' a couple minor infractions to find and list as something to correct and they are then happen and gone.... the more 'perfect' you make things the harder and longer they stay to find something. My Native American Name: "Runs with Scissors" | |||
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Yes,this last. An old veteran of JCAHO visits used to stick a magazine in by the hinges of an emergency exit door so they would have an easy catch, then hopefully miss the worse stuff. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
That's a great trick!!! RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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One of the problems is they are all supposed to have CVs in Sedona, which is the most horrid piece of software I have ever had to use. Hard to prove all the publishing and articles if they aren’t in there because they’d probably rather have their toenails pulled out with pliers than be faced with updating their CV. | |||
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I'm truly sorry, Melissa. The EMR requirement by MediCare ended the locum tenens careers of many physicians as they couldn't face learning so many different computer systems. But then a lot of docs just up and retired anyway given the EMR, HIPAA which I hate with a passion, and finally COVID. Fortunately I missed all the COVID crap as I retired finally in 2018, from full-time practice in 2015. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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