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Questions we should be asking our TSMs right now:
1) Is this "just" a seasonal slowdown coincidentally happening on the _______ account(s)?
2) Or, might this be part of a job shift of many WTs from each of those accounts to somewhere else? (i.e., like when acute care lost access to the ER WTs when they switched over to EMR and failed to tell us it was about to happen)?
3) Has much of the work we have been doing "on the acute care side of the house" shifted over to ambulatory care now?
As you all know, stuff happening without your knowing about it can cause you to make unwise financial decisions, not to mention the adverse impacts on your mood and/or stress level.
I found that I really needed to do a better job of knowing what is happening and asked my supervisor these questions and explained to her that her answers directly impacted upon my decision making and asked for the honest truth (you can hope for an honest answer from most supervisors, although I am aware of a few that will absolutely tell BOLD-FACED lies and seemingly have no conscience).
If we report back about the answers we get, we might get to some semblance of the truth of our collective OOW situations, might we not?
I'll go first. My supervisor on the AB team (COM's initials) said it was just a seasonal slowdown.
Thanks in advance everyone!