Regimented and Routine!

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Kim Buckley — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:36:33 GMT

Yay!

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:28:27 GMT

Good news, my careplan , new hospitalisaton sheets and patient assessment questionaire have been implemented at work!

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Leanne Tyreman-Guest — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:10:01 GMT

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It's not the bosses I am having problems with either, they are all for change as long as it improves the way we do things... it's certain individuals who wont even try something , thats what is gettin on my nerves!

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:19:51 GMT

[quote user="ginny"]ust a thought though - its really important that new staff find out why things are as they are before they rush to change things. Especially in long established practices. Might be that your way isn't better just different.[:)[/quote] I have worked there now for 15 months and previous to that for almost 10 yrs, so its not like I am a newbie trying to come in and take over.

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:52:50 GMT

[quote user="ginny"]

Just a thought though - its really important that new staff find out why things are as they are before they rush to change things. Especially in long established practices. Might be that your way isn't better just different.[:)

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exactly

Re: Regimented and Routine!

ginny — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:46:55 GMT

I've tried the their idea approach in my previous practice. Sometimes it took a good 6 months for them to come up with the idea but they got there in the end!

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Ozzie Kate — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:02:16 GMT

A good trick is to make it seem like it is their idea!! The bosses at my old practice where very set in their old ways however the plan that we all had was to suggest a really awful idea then lead onto the better idea!! Worked everytime!! and the bosses thought they were so clever!

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Tracey Louise — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:19:03 GMT

totally can see where you are coming from on this post!

Change never has a great reaction in our place!

What are you trying to introduce?

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Mac Feather — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:12:08 GMT

Is that not human nature to a degree? It happens in all walks of life.

I remember my other half having a farm job interview and was told they were looking to improve/try new ways. He was asked a question about how to improve something, he went to answer and before he got finished the guy flatly said 'No, we wont be trying that'.

Also I think we all get a little stuck in a rut at times. I know that change or the idea of change to me is scarey and I can have various great ideas but am either too busy procarastinating or too scared to implement the ideas.

But having said that, it is irritating if you are trying to change things for the better and you are continually met with a brick wall of 'no no no no, it cant be done'.

I suppose the wall comes from a lack of understanding or suspicion about what the change is for.

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Kim Buckley — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:57:12 GMT

One of the reasons I left my old practice.

Lovely new hospital, lovely staff but whole place stuck in a massive rut! Real shame as could be an amazing place if only things were changed!

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:54:40 GMT

yes its one of the main issues for me looking around for other work when I have worked in some practices - it becomes frustrating to the point you just dont want to be there anymore

but then there are probably others that come behind me who dont agree with the way I do things either. I suppose thats what keeps the job interesting - always something new coming along - some of it good and some of it not so good

Generally speaking I find the bigger the practice the greater the chance you are entering a time warp and the greater the chance of resistance to anything new - I always expected the smaller practices to be more like this but almost always they have been the most receptive of an injection of new ideas in my experience. Maybe you could argue that the smaller practices have more room for improvement to catch up with the bigger hospital types or - could it be that a smaller practice has fewer staff , fewer hiding places and although we arent maybe as technologically advanced some of us have a real pride in our work

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Kerry Spain — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:10:06 GMT

I've just recently gone to a new practice who had the same nurse there in charge for about 30 years... oh my goodness. I've spent the last 4 months cleaning and reorganising as it was such a bloody mess. I was met with open arms at first and the loads of resistance... think they have gotten fed up now and have just left me to it

I still have loads of time saving ideas but I will try to implement them slowly... I WILL do it