I got people fired where I work, and now hate my job

I put nin my post that I partly did it to protect the pt, and to protect my job, when it comes to abuse you are obligated by law to report it, suspected or real. I could have lost my job and my license by not reporting, it would be the same as if I abused the resident myself.

So, it was the participants in the abuse themselves who reported to you in an effort to throw each other under the bus? Guess that plan didn't work out too well for them

That wasn't really clear in the first post. Under the circumstances I don't see that you had any choice in the matter. You did the right thing. Hope you're starting to feel better about it.

The biggest mistake you made is that you reported something that you heard and didn't know of for a fact....even rumor mills cost people their jobs.

You also didn't do it to protect the patient...you did it to save your own job...so my question to you is: Why was your job at risk to start with? She did it for both reasons. Read her post to see why she feared her job was at risk.

I would never, ever go to a boss unless it was something I witnessed personally, because you never know what kind of toxic poison someone else is spilling out of their lips.

I don't know how old you are, but I would wager you are pretty young.

No need to bring age into it. It's not just younger people who dislike that others talk behind their backs. I also think that these people would not have been fired unless there was follow-up done and it was found out to be true. The nurse had a legal obligation to tell someone, and it was to go higher up.
who wants to remain friends with people who would emotionally abuse an elderly woman anyway?

But how would anyone know that you knew but didn't report?

In the future, just keep your mouth shut if you were not the primary witness. Your job was not at stake, I don't think, if you had no first hand knowledge of whatever these other people were allegedly saying or doing.

But how would anyone know that you knew but didn't report?

In the future, just keep your mouth shut if you were not the primary witness. Your job was not at stake, I don't think, if you had no first hand knowledge of whatever these other people were allegedly saying or doing.