The Other Side of The Rail.
The title of this blog is a term familiar to most health care professionals, so for the sake of those who do not know a definition will be provided. The term means that the caregiver is now the client, the patient, in other words the one being cared for. This flip can be most eye opening as to the state of health care in one's community. It can also show one how short you have fallen personally in caring for others and being who you are can be used against you when you are the patient.
2005 was a year that was full of ups and terrible lows in that I celebrated getting an associate degree in Culinary but I also was let go from my job because of a physical disability that was job acquired over the years. This was a real attack but I knew it was coming with the climate changes in the work place. I was blessed because many people died (literally). The hospital was laying off people without notice to prepare, you come to work only to be told to get your things and be escorted out by security like a criminal. The remaining like the Hebrew Children in the Bible had to continue to work with less yet production expectation is the same. Nurses had to adapt to forced overtime and increased work loads with job security gone. What you had to do for family or self was not in the cards. You was (and still is according to those on the inside) a production unit, none human, and an object to be replaced. And if one had a disability seen or unseen you were and still is a target.
The same held true for the community college I attended and the chef I had my externship under. One working with a cane was really not allowed even though it was voiced no problem at the beginning. Truth is never welcomed (I spared no one not even my self in my summation of the experience) in any arena.
However one becomes disable (seen or unseen) the focus should not be the disability but the ability of the person. It is cheaper to keep them in the work place than to let them go because the training of a new worker takes at lest two costly years before they can be functionally productive. How can one justify replacing twenty plus years of experience with a person with no experience to less than five Who is going to teach the new people and be a resource for them? The seasoned people are being pushed out. Personally saw a nursing unit with over 300 years of nursing experience be reduced to less than 50 within a two year period. Now the blind lead the blind and the mortality rate grows needlessly.
It makes no difference the type of work place a hospital or commercial kitchen and all points in between, the worker you let go because of a disability that can be accommodated is not a liability in the long run. The employer has to just be willing to invest in them by accommodations and further education to enable them to capitalize on their ability, not their disability.
When the worker capitalize the work place as a whole capitalize and in the final analysis the Nation. Think about it!
2005 was a year that was full of ups and terrible lows in that I celebrated getting an associate degree in Culinary but I also was let go from my job because of a physical disability that was job acquired over the years. This was a real attack but I knew it was coming with the climate changes in the work place. I was blessed because many people died (literally). The hospital was laying off people without notice to prepare, you come to work only to be told to get your things and be escorted out by security like a criminal. The remaining like the Hebrew Children in the Bible had to continue to work with less yet production expectation is the same. Nurses had to adapt to forced overtime and increased work loads with job security gone. What you had to do for family or self was not in the cards. You was (and still is according to those on the inside) a production unit, none human, and an object to be replaced. And if one had a disability seen or unseen you were and still is a target.
The same held true for the community college I attended and the chef I had my externship under. One working with a cane was really not allowed even though it was voiced no problem at the beginning. Truth is never welcomed (I spared no one not even my self in my summation of the experience) in any arena.
However one becomes disable (seen or unseen) the focus should not be the disability but the ability of the person. It is cheaper to keep them in the work place than to let them go because the training of a new worker takes at lest two costly years before they can be functionally productive. How can one justify replacing twenty plus years of experience with a person with no experience to less than five Who is going to teach the new people and be a resource for them? The seasoned people are being pushed out. Personally saw a nursing unit with over 300 years of nursing experience be reduced to less than 50 within a two year period. Now the blind lead the blind and the mortality rate grows needlessly.
It makes no difference the type of work place a hospital or commercial kitchen and all points in between, the worker you let go because of a disability that can be accommodated is not a liability in the long run. The employer has to just be willing to invest in them by accommodations and further education to enable them to capitalize on their ability, not their disability.
When the worker capitalize the work place as a whole capitalize and in the final analysis the Nation. Think about it!
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