OT - My Bizarre Little Setback

My fingers are crossed. And to add a little extra my legs are crossed and if it will help you, I'll even try to cross my eyes (which being a nearsighted person is impossible for me.)

Good luck!

Lucille

Don't hurt yourself with all that crossed position stuff. I do appreciate the good wishes, and seem to be trying not to cry all the time of late. Which isn't really my personality. But, I'm starting to appreciate how people must feel when they get truly depressed and desperate.

Poor DH - at least he and I are strong and emotionally solid in our feelings for each other. But, our dinner conversation went to the morbid - of it would be too much paperwork to jump off the American Legion bridge, and think of the traffic mess.

It seems just when things are going forward, another big shoe falls. There's got to be an end...

Ellice

I know it will all work out - and it's their loss!

I'm thinking of you and join Lucille in keeping everything crossed!

Linda

Thanks a bunch. Eventually it will work out - it's all in the timing, or something trite like that!

Ellice

Sweetie, if you are in the health care field, you do not want to be working with a team that is happy to be mediocre. Sooner or later they will kill someone or get slapped with a negligence or malpractice lawsuit, and you will be better off for not being associated with them Or their moron bosses.

Monique in TX

Don't forget to include my chapter on "You're so good you're irreplaceable, so you'll never be promoted".

That's the primary reason I went back to law firm work ... I know I can't be promoted to lawyer without finishing law school. No more false promises about "kill yourself doing your job and the one above you and you'll get the promotion" when the end result was going to be "you're irreplaceable, stay right where you are".

If you are buying uniforms specifically for the job you no longer have, the bill MUST be theirs, that is only fair. If they have not given you fair warning and specified what was fireably wrong, they pay for them !

He has an excellent point !

I will indeed keep my fingers crossed and was sorry to hear this, it's very hard lines.

The night is darkest before first light of dawn, I have found that to be true.

So you would think. But, instead I'll just have to deduct them from our taxes as unreimbursed employee expenses. That really made me more than annoyed.

Yup - he's pretty much more outraged than I am. Personally, I went into a little shock of what did I do wrong, etc - apologizing to the DH, who of course would have none of it. As I often say to him, one of the reasons I fell for him was that he's the kindest person (at heart) that I've ever known. Unfortunately, the fact that we both tend to generousity has kind of kicked us in the teeth - but, oh well.

Thanks. We'll see - I'm pretty confident I can get another job pretty soon

- but it's not easy times at all.

Ellice

True, so true. And there are so many worse things to happen in life - it's just keeping perspective.

Ellice

I suspect most of us have difficulty doing that, so you are not alone.

Spew warning needed!

Cheryl

Sorry - that reply belonged on another thread. Wonder if Comcast is messing up or if was me and too fast fingers.

I know full well that keeping perspective can be damn hard.

Sheesh, and I sat here trying to figure the spew out - Ellice has a sense of humour I am sure lol

Just curious, what is your education? And what was this job and the duties?

just me, Cathy

I do believe that you ARE too smart to work with people like that, and that somewhere out there is the right place where you will be valued for all that you have to offer. But right now, this just sucks and I am so sorry to hear about it.

Dawne

Ellice I wish you to find soon a good job , well paid and that people WILL be gald to have a WELL EDUCATED INTELIGENT person working with and for them ,, And Shana Tova to you !!!!

Thanks for the encouragement. That's pretty much my thinking - I just didn't really need the lay-off - now. But, I'm sure some of my questions about procedures that just didn't seem appropriate did contribute to the issue.

DH is totally on this thought, and has been a bit stormy WRT making sure that our friends/neighbors don't use the Urgent Care facility there, etc.

Ellice

Yes, but.... It's DH that is more prone to comedic behaviour. I'm a bit more droll and wry - sure. OTOH, we love Boston Legal (and have forced our lawyer friends to watch it 'cause even though it's over the top, it's hilarious). And Burn Notice - our new favorite show, along with The Closer (though DH suggests that Burn Notice may strike close to home for me and my former career).

Ellice

Ah, A nursing assistant job. I'm a medic - just getting ready to test out on my full Paramedic, been an EMT for many, many years. But, also have advanced life saving certs (ACLS, PALS), and getting ready to start nursing school going on for my NP. My EMS education is about 60 semester hours of medical stuff - trauma, medical emergenices, peds, geriatrics, pharmacology, cardiology, A&B, plus labe, procedures, patient assessment. Which is significantly more than an LPN or MA class (particularly in terms of differential diagnosis, cardiology, pharmacology, trauma things). But, before my mid-life change of career I was a Research engineer, with a couple of undergrad degrees, Masters, and stupidly ABD with my doctorate. Plus I had started out as a pre-med in a do med school with undergrad program so had some med school background (I've had all the gross anatomy, physicology, and a bunch of related subjects years ago) before switching to engineering.

Anyhow, the way medical staffing works, with different limitations by state, but essentially staff less than MDs work under the license umbrella of a medical director. So, as a medic, I perform duties for which I have been trained, in accordance with protocols signed off by the county EMS Med Director, and have a guideline that allows me to administer medications, perform procedures within that scope of practice - without asking permission. I can call in for questions, or to get advice - different directions. That's why ALS medics have to learn so much to be able to make a critical initial differential diagnosis and initiate treatments (give the right med, do intubations, Ivs, some procedures ).

In a med practice the Mas, Nursing staff can do a lot of things like med administrations, blood draws, EKGs - as long as the med director has approved that their training allows them to do that. Where I was working, most of the nursing staff are Mas - which is a few month course focused on being able to do basic assistant procedures - doing vitals, giving injections, doing venipuncture. Doesn't go into the deeper science, whys, etc - it's a very functional training. This practice also has LPNs, RNs (not many) and a handful of NPs. So, the nursing staff is all grouped together - except the NPs - who have a lot of privileges on their own licenses. Evidently, my situation made the "older, lesser trained" Mas a bit uncomfortable (it's a do don't think kind of thing). The younger ones were fine.

Anyhow, I hope that explains things. It's pretty interesting in that most of us don't really know. I'm careful at my doctors - especially my primary care - when some new person is going to draw my blood and I'm not thrilled with their procedure.

Ellice