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Wow- I haven't had a day like this in a very long time...
We had our annual survey by the state at one of the group homes- a huge pain in the butt. The surveyor got a hold of one of my former staff's criminal histories and then tried to slam me with it. There are very specific things that preclude being hired and his offense (for which he was never convicted) was not on the list. She kept trying to tell me that robbery, burglery and theft were all the same thing. So, I had to get our QA person to pull the info from the Texas Register to prove my point. I love being right. and if I didn't occasionally use my discretion as the Director to hire people who made stupid mistakes in their past- well, I'd be working a whole lot more direct care, that's for sure!
Then I had two reportable incidents which will require a full investigation and follow-up from the state. Luckily, neither of them are the result of anything that my staff did or didn't do!
Then at midnight last night I was paged, and needless to say three pages later and a phone call to the Police- 4 disciplinary actions and two hysterical staff- plus the fact that this one isn't even one of my houses but one of my co-workers which I agreed to cover so she could go away...it was a long and ugly night. On the plus side- rick was post-call and slept through the entire thing. Although at one point he sat up and asked me "How's he doing? What are his sats?"
anyway- I went straight to the gym and now I'm throwing myself in the shower and I'm going to bed.
Jenn
I swear, whoever thinks carrying a pager is Fun obviously doesn't have to carry one!
We had our annual survey by the state at one of the group homes- a huge pain in the butt. The surveyor got a hold of one of my former staff's criminal histories and then tried to slam me with it. There are very specific things that preclude being hired and his offense (for which he was never convicted) was not on the list. She kept trying to tell me that robbery, burglery and theft were all the same thing. So, I had to get our QA person to pull the info from the Texas Register to prove my point. I love being right. and if I didn't occasionally use my discretion as the Director to hire people who made stupid mistakes in their past- well, I'd be working a whole lot more direct care, that's for sure!
Then I had two reportable incidents which will require a full investigation and follow-up from the state. Luckily, neither of them are the result of anything that my staff did or didn't do!
Then at midnight last night I was paged, and needless to say three pages later and a phone call to the Police- 4 disciplinary actions and two hysterical staff- plus the fact that this one isn't even one of my houses but one of my co-workers which I agreed to cover so she could go away...it was a long and ugly night. On the plus side- rick was post-call and slept through the entire thing. Although at one point he sat up and asked me "How's he doing? What are his sats?"
anyway- I went straight to the gym and now I'm throwing myself in the shower and I'm going to bed.
Jenn
I swear, whoever thinks carrying a pager is Fun obviously doesn't have to carry one!
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