I seem to have alot of anger at the moment!
I returned to my old job as a healthcare manager after a 6 years break.
Prior to the break I was a manager for 8 years so I have been a layer back from direct clinical work.
Next November I am reverting to a lower grade clinical teaching post that I will be able to do part time and hopefully term time only.
Anyhoo, I wanted to do an advanced clinical course in preparation and one of my staff members who is organising it said in an email "it will be over your head"
Imagine my anger! OK I am rusty but I do have 10 years of wide ranging hands-on clinical experience before I wandered in to the management/mommy wilderness.
So I was quite nervous about the course yesterday.
Imagine my utter surprise, when in fact nothing, I mean nothing has changed in the 18 years since I worked in this field. Now I was in a very advanced clinical centre 18 years ago. But went you take out all the research references which are all recent enough. The actual clinical decision making and actual treatments indicated are EXACTLY the fcuking same.
In fact it is shocking to me how little things have changed in my field and yet all these young ones, think they are at the cutting edge of whatever and an old dinosaur like me couldn't have a clue.
They reviewed all the literature in one area, which was inconclusive and I put up my hand and asked if that meant I could reallocate all the staf in that area! Evil, but good.