F U, Joint Commission
When I used to be employed by two hospitals in Maine there used to be some stupid policy about not having Christmas cards taped to your door. I was told that it broke one of the Joint Commission rules due to it being a fire hazard. A fire hazard!?! Yup. I guess they felt these cards could spontaneously combust. It was then that I knew the Joint Commission was a sham. No one questions their mandates. They don’t have to prove anything. And the idiot administrators eat their crap like up Scooby snacks. Why? Because they just want little gold stars. For years I could not tape up my Christmas cards given to me by patients. So, now that I am self-employed, happy, independent, and in-charge I can do what I want and I want is to tape them on my door. F%ck you, Joint Commission (and the idiot administrators your rode in on)!
A classic protection/shake-down racket – “It would be a shame if anything happened to that nice little hospital of yours . . . “
Yeah I remember a time or two ago the big concern was nobody could have a bottle of water or snacks at the nursing station, and I remember thinking, “These people are responsible for the safe operation of a hospital and THIS is what they’re fxxcking worried about?!”
This last time they made us put up plexiglass barriers around every sink for some ridiculous reason.
The knuckleheads told me the Christmas cards were “an infection control issue”. Which infection? Strep, Chlamydia or C. Dif.?
Twenty five years ago our hospital administrator told joint commission AMF. He used evidence based research by our accountants to decide this PR sham was cattle excrement. Best example of evidence based research. Money talks, bullshit walks!
Lololol… yeah, we’ve all seen how those Christmas cards can spontaneously burst into flames.
My favorite was how those morons decided that my eating or drinking at my work station in the ER was a health hazard, while impatient patients could bellow for meal trays 5 minutes after triage. So I ordered the nurses henceforth, no meal trays for any patients in the ER. Gotta be safe!