Connie Wolf LCSW,CADC

Jerry

Veronica

Jerry

Pedro Pajares

Expressive Therapist

orientation was very good but don't think the hands on training for CPI was enough to deal with what I encounter on the units everyday. So more physical training for CPI would be good.find a balance between the aggressive and nonaggressive units. Its light night and day between 2N and 3N and find myself in fear of the patients on the more acute units.

I feel that there needs to be more consistency. While I want to believe that everyone is here to help the patient's, and I do know we are a for profit hospital, it is very difficult when we are told to keep patient's because they have Medicare and they approve two weeks versus we need to get rid of patient's in 5 days because they are unfunded. It is often over looked on what is needed from the social work perspective and if the patient could benefit from more care. If we are going to accept unfunded patients I believe we need to treat them as any other and be open to a longer stay if needed for patient safety.There are certain doctors here that are extremely negative and unhelpful. I feel that they do not care about the patient safety or who they are treating. They have read and ignored tiger text and I never get follow up. I think there needs to be an expectation with providers that we are working as a TEAM. Some providers are amazing!Multiple times there has been no toilet paper in the bathroom. I have heard from other staff that this has been an issue too where they are then stuck in the bathroom. If housekeeping could maybe check the toilet paper supply more often that would be so helpful.HCS crashes all the time. It might recover the checks that I clicked but when it just shuts down it does not safe anything I typed. As an employee who half of their day is spent documenting things on HCS, I do believe this is an area of improvement. We have had to begin typing things in word documents just to ensure we dont lose what we type. Many times I have had to retype multiples things.I feel that there is gossip between departments that is very defeating. Staff that make comments that social workers just go to the unit for a few minutes then get to leave, that we cause codes and then leave, it does not feel supportive at all. I dont feel comfortable going to managers or HR in fear of being labeled or targeted.

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Staff appropriately. We work with very sick people. The addition of one staff member makes a big difference.Plan meetings when staff can attend them.My workload seems to constantly increase with less focus on the direct therapeutic aspect. I have less time to spend planning my groups. Less time to conduct individual meetings. Less time to make collateral calls.I understand that medication management groups are a necessity,but I don't think it's right to have that take precedent over doing the work I have to do. I also don't think it's right that the department supervisor doesn't offer to fill-in when the scheduled therapist is absent. This is a common occurrence in other places I have worked.