Telling it like I see it said...

Unfortunately, lubing up "the triad" and sliding them out the door is not a viable solution. In the mean time, the employees (as well as the patients) are getting lubed up. Problems aren't limited to the ER at DRMC. The whole place is falling into this man-made sinkhole. Ethics in higher ups haven't seen daylight in decades. Nurses are being horribly overworked hospital-wide. The staffing in ancillary departments has been severely cut, which in turn is making the already overworked nurses even more stressed out over lab timing, etc. And to top it off, they still have a raise freeze in effect, but have no problem hiring PRN nurses at vulgar salaries. It's a vicious cycle.I will jump on board for hoping that 2009 brings brighter days. I would say that it couldn't get worse, but I highly doubt that.

All non-administrative personnel at Delta Regional Medical Center would surely agree that ethics have no pertinence to leadership at that hospital. The directors could care less about loyalty, servitude, dedication, or teamwork.

Their interests only live in that little circle of what can be seen via tunnel vision, focused solely on what is most beneficial to their own tail-covering (or tail kissing depending on where the position lies in the daily changing chain of command pyramid!)

Ancillary departments and underlings are always the first to go in a top heavy administration. Its crazy. Cut the throats of the lower paid folks, add even more responsibility to nurses, then hire prn nurses who don't really care about this community much less have a clue about teamwork. They don't have to. They just rocket-boostered out of their medsurg positions in other places to make probably double the salary as a nurse in the ER or the "Heart Hospital". No trauma experience or cardiac background. No multitasking or critical thinking skills. No baseline knowledge or skills assessment. No need. As long as it fits into some crazed action plan by a director at the DRMC, signed, sealed, and delivered by their champion administrative team. Another Delta success. And so fast. Man!

They have to come up with those plans quickly. They have other highly important things that demand their attention, for God's sake! How else could all of the administrators sit in their offices, not listening to music, not surfing the Internet, not balancing their checkbooks justify their positions?

I wish a magical slide did exist. I for one would love to the entire administrative team slide on out the door. For good.

-deltapithy