Comments on: The Dreaded Evaluation: Helpful or a Waste of Time?

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RedScrubs Weekly Wrap-up 9-5-2008 - RedScrubs — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:01:31 +0000

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By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:54:51 +0000

LOL Steve you said it!

And it’s really too bad. Evals COULD be an excellent tool, a way for management to actually MANAGE it’s staff in a proactive positive way.

Instead I get the feeling it’s just one more thing on their overly heavy plate of things that take them away from…eating their lunches and going online to book flights and what not.

Really.

By: steve. R

steve. R — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:54:05 +0000

Evaluations are a joke i work overnights and as u could assume the manager is never there that late so she really had to rely on the opinions of her night nurse unfortunately for me my night charge was a feminist/lazy/ignorant u name it and never liked me from day one so my evaluations were always lacking this continued till low and behold we got a new charge nurse that was much more ambitious and unbiased and amazingly my last eval was perfect i feel im not the only one who has been a victim of oppinion

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:46:13 +0000

Thank you Holly! Yes we have gotten much feedback on this theme. Many more people can now “read” this site without discomfort or altering browser settings. We have to tweak a few more things, but overall this is working best for everyone.

By: Holly

Holly — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:23:13 +0000

Patti and Kim:

I LOVE the updated look here. I can SEE this site so much better now than before. I really like the colors, American theme and stars and all. Good stuff.

By: Holly

Holly — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:19:25 +0000

My work uses prepared eval forms from Office Max. We get low ranks because they don’t want to give us decent raises…everyone but the aides who kiss up, make 6.00hr with out ever asking for more, who work double shifts every day and who are just bad workers.

Our evals are always late, always poorly done, by the DON who has no clue what we do and half the time she doesn’t put our faces to the name on the paper. She summons a group to her office each month- at different times. We’re asked to sign the eval before we read it. Then we get a nice hefty 1% raise IF we are one of the ass kissers.

By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:54:17 +0000

My work uses one of the popular computer programs for employee evals. How de-moralizing to see YOUR eval has the same words and phrases Joe Blow over in Maintenance has. I guess the program allows the employer to “customize” what is rated- which is good because I sure as heck don’t want MY work rated in the same areas as Joe Blow…he doesn’t provide hands on care and I don’t fix broken stoves….he’s very good at this and it should reflect on his eval, but it should never be on mine.

The charge nurses actually DO our evals- those who work with us the most as we work with several. However, the Nurse Manager AND DON AND VP check over the eval “drafts” and give approval or not.

One thing not mentioned here is the horrible mind set of many that NO ONE GETS a rating of above average— without proof they have just about killed themselves to earn it. Again- demoralizing to know your hard work will never reflect as anything more than “average” when the “average” is compared to new aides, bad aides and so on.

Goals? Ha. What a joke. Everyone has the same at my work: Attend inservices, stay within attendance guidelines and keep providing quality care. OKAY…these things are already expected of us. It’s part of the job. So why are they goals?

Because management is too closed minded to really give these sections any serious thought.