I was recently promoted to be the
interimdirector of the behavioral health department of my hospital! 😃
I think people missed my modification to this post when I posted it in the good news thread because all I got in response was a joke about talking to myself 😉
That said, I have a fairly small department, which means I only have a few people in key areas. A month ago, all was going well. I’d lost a lousy social worker and a good former social worker had agreed to come back to work for us. Well, since then, that social worker decided to take a job in Tucson instead, my other social worker is moving to the hospice department, and my utilization review case manager had to leave suddenly due to family issues (she made sure we got paid by insurance companies, who can deny payment if they don’t receive needed info in a timely manner). So I’ve been struggling to replace these folks because they are essential for running a behavioral health unit. It’s been very stressful.
Lesson: Create redundancy so you don’t have to rely too much on lone key people. You can bet I’m going to train multiple people to do the same job from now on!