This week, on the day that I had to meet with my preceptor, she had to be at the HR office most part of the day to prepare the necessary documents for an employee she was getting ready to terminate. She explained to me that she had given this employee lots of oppotunities to change her attitude and ways about work. This employee according to her was making racial remarks at both co-workers and patients as well as not giving the proper patient care she was suppose to. I was not allowed in the whole termination process but she expressed how difficult it is to be the carrier of bad news.
While she was away, she asked me to perform clean sweeps and overall skin checks of the patients on the unit. These activities are carried out to ensure that the nurses are doing what they are suppose to do with respect to having things they work with be in the right place and keep proper record of the patient's skin condition as well as if they develop something new during admission. She also asked me to help her with typing up some treatment protocols her unit was hoping to adapt so that the doctors are called less and patients receive the needed treatment on time. Sometimes the doctors take a long time to call back with orders for the patient so these protocols will help reduce the time that an order has to be obtained from the doctor.
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I think it will be a difficult task to handle, how did you feel when your preceptor told you that "it is hard to be a carrier of bad news"?
ReplyDeleteSuch decision making is not easy on the managers but in the end you got to do what you got to do.