Muddypuddy

God (Allah) woke me up with a functioning circulatory system and a functioning brain and has blessed me with a decent job.

I want to apologize in advance if my vent is somewhat lengthy, but due to the fact that my management at my hospital sucks and they do not listen to healthcare workers, and in addition due to the limp wristed nursing staff that doesn't give a crap I find myself venting here. Without giving out too much detail let me say that my occupation is that I'm a healthcare worker here in the state of California and I just so happen to work at a local hospital. My current job duties is basically monitoring and managing psychiatric patients. Today, coming into work we've had a patient who for privacy purposes I'll call "Patient A" who has been here for approximately 39 hours (which is far too long for my department as we do not hold patients that long here) who, is admitted for having an altered level of consciousness. Needless to say this patient needs one person to watch him. Unfortunately this "re-directable" patient need all my attention but I have three other patients with similar psychiatric issues. The problem that I have is the understaffing issue that goes on in my department and the undue stress of being tasked to do multiple things when I'm by myself. I try and talk to our management about those issues but it goes in one ear and out the other.

Hey Joe thanks

My statement of purpose was specific to the program(s) I've applied for.

A friend and I were discussing our pursuit in obtaining an LCSW after getting our MSW degrees, but he mentioned something that perplexes me. He stated that after getting our MSW degree we need to apply and get our number from our respective state in order for us to be full fledged MSW professionals. So my question to you all is does anyone have the slightest idea what he is talking about?