Weekends

2:57am I am at peace. At rest. I relax and re charge over weekends.

Background: I feel stressed on weekends. An obligation to do something that improves my life. Make more money? Create something? I don’t even know what. I fill empty time with indulgences. Food alcohol, porn, sex, gambling. What is the best way to spend my time away from work? Starting with that question already sets the table for frustration. I have been down this road. Ask the question, don’t find an answer, have a drink, stupid time.

I don’t talk much about work. We are reorganizing our work distribution. I have too many RN’s working triage and not enough working case management. We are changing course. Instead of dictating a new model I am giving it back to them. We have Nine RN’s to case manage and triage less than 50 Low acuity patients in predominantly assisted living communities. The number of RN’s is slightly deceiving. One is my director. Another I am moving to management. That gives me 7 on a staffing model of six. Two are on leave. One is retiring. Leave comes back as the other retires. I have two case managers. Another case manager in between moving to management. I can delay the change or have her do both. And four full time triage RN’s. Between two triage nurses the took six calls all week and did one triage visit. Something to think about.

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