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Swansong said:
Money and benefits are pretty low hanging fruit, but despite what the derps keep saying, hospital systems have been pounded financially by Covid and the money simply isn't there.
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Every time I hire someone from a hospital system their salary is way, way higher than anyone who works in payer/insurance. Maybe I’m just seeing a really skewed piece of data but it’s been really consistent the last few years to the point we all joke we should have worked in a health system
 
Kepler said:
Then get used to low retention.

You can fool yourselves, but you can't fool your employees.

Fire some middle level management, or better still cut the CEO's compensation by 90%.
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I'm middle management! I can't speak for everyone, but our problem is that I'm responsible for too much.
 
WisconsinWildcard said:
Certainly agree and I know administrators are having significant issues with this and trying their best to help. I can tell you what frustrates most of us clinicians is the conversation often goes like this. (Don't take this the wrong way, I know we are all on the same team and drowning)

Clinicians: We are burning out
Admin: What can we do to help?
Clinicians: We need more people in support roles, less administrative tasks, fewer patients
Admin: We cannot do any of these. Do you want head a project looking into solutions for burnout?
Clinicians: So you want us to take on more administrative responsibilities?
Admin: Yes
Clinicians: ...........
Admin: Have you tried yoga?
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Yeah, as an EHR person I feel bad any time CMS or someone else requires more documentation. It means I need to build the tools, and then I get the fun job of explaining to overworked clinical staff "hey it's just a few extra clicks"...


And yes, I've tried yoga. :)
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Every time I hire someone from a hospital system their salary is way, way higher than anyone who works in payer/insurance. Maybe I’m just seeing a really skewed piece of data but it’s been really consistent the last few years to the point we all joke we should have worked in a health system
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I have found this to be the opposite. I know a bunch of case managers, for example, that jumped from clinical to payer and got enormous salary bumps.
 
Kepler said:
I worked 9 pm - 5 am one summer. Here's my advice:

1) Force yourself to sleep exactly the same time period during the day. Your body is going to want to wander around. Don't listen to it. After about 4 weeks you acclimate.

2) Don't nap, that will mess you up worse than a drinking binge.

3) Interact with people at work as much as you can; the alienation of the overnight shift is isolation and introversion.

4) Be 20.
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I am not 20.
 
Found out Shift Lead Everyone Hates is also not cleaning things like blood and poo off the floor, leaving that for everyone else to clean up.
 
Just got an email, at 6:30 pm on a Friday, from the senior leadership of my company that:

'because we're expanding your department via capabilities and strategies in 2022, the current department leader who: you've worked for these last six years, made this department the second most profitable for the whole company for three straight years (despite four of the other seven departments hemorrhaging money during that time), has advanced everyone's careers and made each of us recognizable in the industry due to our successful work these six years.... isn't the 'correct' fit as head of the department going forward despite telling you all three weeks ago he was going to be named VP in the new year; so we're putting a new manager with zero experience in your industry in place for your department.'

Yeah, great, thanks.

Time to polish the resume and update the LinkedIn account....
 
aparch said:
Just got an email, at 6:30 pm on a Friday, from the senior leadership of my company that:

'because we're expanding your department via capabilities and strategies in 2022, the current department leader who: you've worked for these last six years, made this department the second most profitable for the whole company for three straight years (despite four of the other seven departments hemorrhaging money during that time), has advanced everyone's careers and made each of us recognizable in the industry due to our successful work these six years.... isn't the 'correct' fit as head of the department going forward despite telling you all three weeks ago he was going to be named VP in the new year; so we're putting a new manager with zero experience in your industry in place for your department.'

Yeah, great, thanks.

Time to polish the resume and update the LinkedIn account....
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Yikes. Do you know the old leader? Can you ask what the story is?
 
Kepler said:
Yikes. Do you know the old leader? Can you ask what the story is?
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I do know him, but haven't gotten the details.


What I did hear from a friend in our main office is one of the newly promoted project managers feels he could do a better job than the department head (who the department head has coddled has worked at getting the PM promoted) and the PM is lighting every bridge on fire on his way out the door. Also, the PM has used payroll information to try and pit his own reporting employees against themselves. All behind the department heads back.
 
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It’s 11:30 PM CST on a Friday, and I started at 8PM to perform production validate for an update being released tonight for an internal app. I’m hourly, it’s in “shift premium” time, I’m also in OT for the week, and I’ve been twiddling my thumbs on company time all the while. Great process we have here.
 
Starting February, it looks like I'll be put in a more permanent 32 hours a week position on 2nd.

Great, because the 3rd shift experiment wasn't working out.
 
MissThundercat said:
Starting February, it looks like I'll be put in a more permanent 32 hours a week position on 2nd.

Great, because the 3rd shift experiment wasn't working out.
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32 gives you full time benefits right?

I'm glad you are moving off the graveyard shift. That is no place for an adult -- it's okay if you're a teenager.
 
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Kepler said:
32 gives you full time benefits right?

I'm glad you are moving off the graveyard shift. That is no place for an adult -- it's okay if you're a teenager.
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It's not fun when my anxiety runs on me at 3 AM and I have an existential crisis in the bathroom.
 
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