Welcome back to my weekend reflections, where I dive into the highs and lows of my workweek(end)!
High& Lows: This weekend was good- so no lows.
All my patients (thankfully) were easy to manage. I had time to start planning our fall/winter social committee activities, which I am so excited to organize with my colleagues. We recruited three new members to our committee! It’s exciting to see people get amped up about our events and how it bring the team together and boost morale.
I submitted my eval this past week. I mentioned in my weekend reflections last week that I had not even started it, so the fact that I was able to spend some time during the week to get it finished and submitted was nice. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to finish it at work, so home it was. I take my self-performance evaluations seriously. It is the one time I think it’s appropriate to “brag” about all the work you have done during the fiscal year. I believe that you are your own biggest cheerleader. I was talking to my coworker, who said she has never completed her evals and didn’t see the point in it. I was just flabbergasted, since our self-evals are how we get our raises. Even if we didn’t get a raise, my manager does not know what I do every minute on the minute when I am at work—well, technically they can track us on Epic, but they do not see the time, emotions, and mental labor that goes into talking to a parent who just had fetal demise at 36 weeks. They don’t see the conversations we have with a family member who just lost a loved one—we tell them via evals.