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"The President screwed up this RN interview!"
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Tom Kelly's 60-second Medical, Nursing, and Hospital Career Energizers...
We have a critical care nursing
director candidate
scheduled for a site visit starting
this morning at
a Boston medical center. At 8:00am,
the Chief Nursing
Officer called our agency, asking where
Nurse Lucy was.
She hadn’t shown up for the scheduled
breakfast
meeting with the medical director and
four surgeons.
We’ve pre-interviewed Lucy and had the
impression that
she definitely is not the type to let a
hospital buy
airline tickets and rent a nice hotel
room, only to blow
them off. She had to be
somewhere, but
where?
Naturally, our minds started
cataloguing the various
disasters that could have befallen this
candidate --
she could have had a heart attack in
her apartment and
never made it to the airport to catch
her outgoing
flight -- she could have forgotten all
about it and
scheduled an interview for the same day
at an entirely
different hospital -- or, weird as it
may seem --
we even fantasized that she may have
gotten to
Boston, slipped on the ice, and is even
now a patient
in the very hospital where she is
supposed to be
interviewing!
All of this speculating first thing in
the morning,
and we hadn’t even gotten the coffee
maker humming, or
checked overnight messages yet.... We
set about to do both.
So, fresh cup of coffee in hand, we
checked the voice
mail, and there was one from Lucy,
phoned in at 2:30am.
You know the cliché, Truth is
Stranger Than Fiction
? Sure turned out to be in this
case!
Here’s what actually happened to
Nurse Lucy:
Her airline had scheduled her for a
plane change in
Newark. And, wouldn’t you know it,
there was some
pretty heavy snow falling in Newark,
and only
one more plane was going to be
allowed to
land before they closed the airport
down. And, the
President was aboard Air Force One
inbound for Newark
at that very moment! As they, “Rank
Hath Its Privileges,” and Lucy’s plane
was diverted to Cleveland a long
way in the wrong direction, if you’re
trying to get to Boston for an
interview! Even
though the airline would get her on
another plane, she
won’t arrive in Beantown until 11:30
this morning.
So, we’ve spent much of the past couple
of hours on the
phone with the Chief Nursing Officer,
the CEO’s office, and Human Resources
to work it all out. Somebody
will go to Logan Airport and retrieve
the
sure-to-be-tired (and probably
bedraggled) Lucy. Not an ideal way to
report for a site interview!
Lucy is a real healthcare professional,
though, used
to codes and other inconveniences. Her
2:30am
voicemail message from Cleveland
wondered if any other
critical care director candidates had
ever been bumped
from getting to their interview by the
President of
the United States ... and couldn’t
this somehow
work in her favor!?)
Hopefully,you’ll never get bumped from
a site
interview by The President!
But, if you get
up in the morning and dare to venture
out the front
door, something inconvenient is
bound to happen.
Hopefully, the way Lucy viewed a
disastrous situation
and turned it around in her heart to
represent
something positive can (and
should!) be an
inspiration to us all!
How the president
of the United States
screwed up our
candidate's
nurse manager
job interview
Email Tom your comments:
tomkelly@southern-healthcare.com
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