Traveling OT or Workhorse?

Good to know that locum (traveling) OTs get used and abused everywhere. Lou and I often used to complain to anyone who would listen at Roosevelt that it wasn't fair, no, it wasn't human to expect 100% productivity from us just because we were contractors. That meant literally no time for paperwork, no time for anything really except seeing patients from the moment we walked in the door to the moment we walked out. Of course, no one really paid much attention since everyone was over-worked and stressed out! In the end, Lou and I did what we had to do regardless, both to stay sane and to be responsible, ethical therapists (if you don't document, you can't cover your own butt, for one thing). Company policies be damned. Hiya, Lou ;)

I'm technically assigned to Jodie for the acute wards in the afternoon, but have also been helping out Tana this week. They're both locum OTs, and they spent the three previous weeks trying to handle their own wards, plus cover for a senior therapist who was on holiday for those three weeks. Well, he's back this week, but the acute care of the elderly dept has been re-structured, and he now only needs to be responsible for one ward instead of two, and he was given the choice of which one he wanted. And he chose the one where there's hardly anything to do, leaving Jodie and Tana swamped on the other one, Chestnut, an extremely busy ward (at least in terms of OT). I'm doing my best to help them out, but can only do so much especially since I'm booked with home visits until I take off on holiday next week, and can't take on any more home visits at this point. Just another example of locum OTs getting the short end of the stick, because they're the hired help. No need to worry about staff retention when it comes to locums, I guess.