Am I being a baby?????

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Ok I am a pretty new RN, was a LPN before and worked EMS befroe that. I have been in the ER for 4 months and thought all was going really well, until my 90 day review (that was late). Well I was told that I talk to much, not that I am talking when I should be working just that I talk to much when I am in the nurses station. The thing is everyone is talking, and so I tried yesterday not to talk much, and all I got was everyone asking me what was wrong, are you tired? are you sick? Well after about the tenth question I said well I am fine but I was told i talk to much. Well the nurse I said it to was shocked, she said are you serious I cant believe that, you don't talk to much. I know where it came from, there is one charge nurse who goes out of her way to give me crap, I will be walking out of a room after starting a IV and she will ask why I have not charted it yet, well I just did it and you dont chart before you do it!!!! Others have also noticed this behavior form her also . The thing is I have always been one ot stand up for myself and not take any crap from anyone, but I feel I am not in the position to be makeing waves, I love my job and feel that I need to just take the crap I am getting, but then I feel like I am pretending to be someone else by keeping my mouth shut!!! Anyway thanks for listening!!!

You are kidding, right? The woman has lots of recourse if she wants to get back at them. She could sue the nursing home for wrongful termination and the person who lied about her for damages. You and other workers would be her witnesses.

I have to say, however, that red flags went up when I read your post. I suspect that there is something else going on that this nurse who was fired is not telling you. I was thinking that I would be so mad. If the DON was sticking to the tattletale's information I would get angry and quit on the spot myself.

Apparently they didn't give her time to quit, she is getting a lawyer and filing a grievance.

One of our LPN's got fired today. She had worked there 19 years but the problem was that someone else wants her hours. That person is willing to make nice with our don. Deb was not that type of person. She did her job, did it well but didn't care to be glued to the don's backside. :angryfire She was fired because of someone willing to lie that she had her grandson at work all day Saturday. I know she didn't cuz I worked the same shift. Unfortunately they won't listen to those of us that were there. I think that if someone is doing something wrong they should know it at the time it is going on. By the way she had another job by the end of the day.

It appears you are all talking about the same place here. Give me a hint at least as far as city or state. I want to remember NOT to go there. :angryfire

Specializes in Emergency room, med/surg, UR/CSR.
It appears you are all talking about the same place here. Give me a hint at least as far as city or state. I want to remember NOT to go there. :angryfire

The last two responses were actually talking about another thread, not this one. As for the manager from the OP, I have to hang onto the belief that what goes around, comes around. If I was the manager of that unit, with as many needs as she does, I would be unable to sleep at night wondering how my department is going to take care of all the patients that are coming in. I'm sure that if the higher up admins ever get a look at her payroll, with an enormous amount of people on OT and getting incentive pay on top of it, they are going to go through the roof. Maybe if she had any type of personality that could deal with people, she wouldn't be losing good nurses right and left. Like I said, what goes around, comes around and one of these days it will catch up to her. Sorry, just venting and glad to be out of that department and away from that poor excuse for a manager.

Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.
If I was the manager of that unit, with as many needs as she does, I would be unable to sleep at night wondering how my department is going to take care of all the patients that are coming in. I'm sure that if the higher up admins ever get a look at her payroll, with an enormous amount of people on OT and getting incentive pay on top of it, they are going to go through the roof. Maybe if she had any type of personality that could deal with people, she wouldn't be losing good nurses right and left. Like I said, what goes around, comes around and one of these days it will catch up to her. Sorry, just venting and glad to be out of that department and away from that poor excuse for a manager.

I like your thinking. Sounds like it's time for you to step up into supervision and management if you want to. You could make a difference.

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

I have more than enough to say at work , Im always talking to my patients and doing what needs to be done. I spend little to very little time in discourse with my coworkers. Either they are too young, or I dont like them, or they just dont play golf, Gives me plenty of time to get my work done,

Specializes in Emergency.

i think lady jezebel said it best, i couldn't have said it any better myself.

hang in there, and be yourself. patient care is whats important, and document, document, document!!

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