Here boy! Over here!
Cypress Health Region - Palliser Regional Care Centre
How much hands-on do the managers/management do with our residents? Are you comfortable that they should be able to make decisions on behalf of our residents? As care providers we aren’t. When was the last time they did hands-on care?
Not listening to staff is a form of disrespect. We are the front line and we know our jobs.
Our managers don’t walk the halls, they don’t know what we go through and they don’t know our residents. So when we tell them things and they say, “Oh, well everyone tells me that” and they don’t take action, this should be cause for concern. A good example of this is when we told our managers that we could not work 7 shifts in a row. They did not listen and now they are filling vacancies.
I like Dr. Sherman's solution to Alberta's health care shortage of staff, published in the latest Prairie Post. Take it's CEOs and turn them into executive vice-presidents, then the vice-presidents to regular management, and put junior management back on the floor as front-line staff. No one would lose a job and there would be more people where they are needed. Also, there is no need for communications people in health care. "We don't need communication people to tell the truth."
ReplyDeleteHow true is that??