Well, I did get enough sleep, I guess. But it's never enough, dammit.
Last night was another horror show for my legs. Geez, that's an odd thing to say... Anyway, busy. And... I was alone after I got there. No help at all... everyone left at 21:00.
They took the evening fulltime tech and put her on days, since days was short. Days is short because they still haven't hired a CT tech, and they pull form the diagnostic dept to cover CT.
So the night tech gets the short end.
And the other night tech just turned in her two week notice. She's going to a hospital that does about half of the work that we do... and they have two night techs.
This probably means lots of OT... I want the money, but not the hours... heh.
I had a talk with my supervisor this morning, telling her, among other things, that I wasn't interested in the CT job, and that I really wasn't interested in even working at St Francis any more at all. I'm pretty thoroughly fed up with them.
And it's more of a financial thing than anything else, I think. It takes a coupla months after someone quits before they can get approval to fill a position... it seems that it has to be completely justified each time. And then it has to be advertised... and, of course, they don't pay enough to hire anyone who doesn't particularly really want to live in Topeka.
And all of this time, everyone else has to pick up the slack. And they get sick of it, and find other jobs... pretty soon, there will be nobody at all there.
Most hospitals our size have two techs or even three on nights... we have one. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. All of the departments are similarly staffed, or rather understaffed.
But boy, does the budget look good!
And that, folks, is the bottom line here. Didn't used to be, but it sure looks that way now.
So I'm going to put in some time doing a CV or resume or whatever... there's gotta be a better way to make a living, and I know that there are people out there who are better to work for...
But I still enjoy working with patients... I just wish that I had more time to do an even better job. There's a lot of pressure when you're constantly three or four patients behind, and I'm sick of it.
OK, enough. Time for bed, and I hope that I wake up with a better attitude...