What would you do?

I would like to thank everyone for their responses. I have already sent an email to the director about what I've witnessed.

Please bear with me, as this is a second career for me, and I'm still learning the culture of nursing.

I do feel it's my duty to advocate for my patients, but I'm also the type of person who pick and choose my battles. Since the ER wasnt my home persay, I just didnt want to be involved in unit issues.

The night this incident happened, the triage nurse was spoken to by the charge nurse regarding the whole "assessment" issue. I think from there it escalated to the director.

It's just that I'm a new grad, I try to keep my head to the grind, and it's hard enough trying to learn a new job without all this other mess going on. And on top of it, it was very hard for me to land this position and I didnt want to do anything to jeopardize my job. I got a son to take care of and bills to pay. All I wanted to do was learn what I needed to know in the ER and move on to my home unit.

Anyway, what's done is done. Like I said, what happens from here, happens.

Thanks for your input! The nurses also said the same thing you just said, that they don't examine vaginas in triage, even if the patient states they are bleeding heavily. I have sent an email to the director stating what I saw. The guy is still working there, so I guess he was given a warning or something.