Just When I Thought it Was Safe...

Just when I thought I was comfortable in my position. Just when I thought I was happy with 1 Hospice patient, 10 Palliative Care patients and 2 new Health Plus at Home patients, they go and fire one of my favorite co-workers and our small social work team must divvy up his 23 patients. Now keep in mind that this is the person that I recently transferred my Hospice patients to. So, as of today, I got my patients back (minus the two that died). This is all on the heels of the announcement that we could get potentially tens to hundreds of new patients just for me. I have spent today taking deep cleansing breaths! I really need to ask for a raise. Even though I don't have very many patients, it's the fact that I have patients in three different programs and have to attend three different team meetings each week. It doesn't leave me much time to see patients. Did I mention that I am also the go-to person for ALL administrative duties for the Palliative Care program. You might remember when my other co-worker was fired at the end of April and I was told I would only assume a few of her caseload. I assumed almost all of her patients and I'm running the program that she was part of. Don't get me wrong, this is amazing experience, and I'm appreciative that my supervisors are so trusting of my abilities, but I didn't ask for this! I can't handle it if they decide to fire another social worker. Hopefully they'll fire a nurse next!

Tomorrow is an incredibly relaxing day of knocking on potential enrollee's doors (Relaxing? Ha!). We have fourteen scheduled doors to knock on and as far as I can tell, none of them speak English. Maybe I'll magically develop the ability to speak Spanish, Russian and Turkish by tomorrow morning. Here's hopin'!

Can't wait for the weekend. Need to de-stress!!!