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A couple months ago there were consultants milling about the nuthouse.
They were talking to people, observing systems and processes, and generally being intrustive.
The nuthouse newsletter came out on Monday, and reports some of the recommended changes.
The CFO is going to become the Hospital Administrator. This is generally regarded as a good thing, as the current Administrator was never really Administrator material. He's staying with us and taking a more clinically oriented job.
The big shocker is that the Director of Nursing (DON) was apparently declared a useless appendage by the consultants. It's not that we didn't know that she was a useless appendage, but for someone from the outside to spend a week poking around and identify this with laser-like accuracy, that's impressive.
The surprising part is that the DON is no longer employed by the hospital ... I mean office packed up, escorted out of the building not employed. This is the current great mystery.
The woman has worked for the nuthouse for THIRTY YEARS.
One would have expected a dignified two week notice and a nice luncheon.
But she's just gone.
What's worse ... the nuthouse newsletter was out and available to employees several hours before the DON was outta there.
Her name may become a verb ... much in the same way that "went [name of commitment director that went crazy and stopped showing up to work]" is used.
Any complacency we had about having a stable job in a down economy is now GONE, and the stress levels are through the roof.
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