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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...

How the president of the United States screwed up our candidate's nurse manager job interview		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!

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