So I know that everywhere has problems with rumors and stuff. But I've had several nurses spreading rumors about me. It's gotten to the whole facility and I'm stuck with the after effects. I can tell how far it's gone because now when I suggest something I get some people going "oooook, I'm going to go ask this person too just to be safe." People are second guessing me now.
The problem is, a lot of the stuff that I've been told that I've done has happened either on my day off or on another shift. I don't have proof of any of it as it's all word of mouth. I've just learned to deal with the rumors and pretty much being told that I'm "not a good nurse, that's why I'm doing what someone else should have done years ago."
Anyways it was all ok, I learned to ignore the whispers. But the thing is my boss pulled me aside and told me that first I was once again doing something wrong since I'm the charge nurse and didn't check to see that 7-3 had their stuff done (I'm the 3-11 shift, so it should be the 7-3 charge nurse's job really).
Then after that she proceeded to tell me that people I do trust at work would turn on me in a second and that no one has my back, and that they tell rumors about me too- really bad stuff as she told me about new things that are flying around about me.
So now I'm stuck with the possibility that either 1) this is true and I really can't trust anyone at all, or 2) my boss is lying and really those that I thought I could trust I really can.
I'm stuck I don't know what to do. I obviously can't go to my boss to complain. I've tried to tell my supervisor in the past but it was always brushed off. The nurses who are doing this are the speical chosen ones of the boss. Is this what nurses really are like? Because I remember being told it was a dog eat dog world there but this is stupid! The only thing I can think of is to get a new job, but after all the stuff I put up with here, that has me terrified that I could end up in the same position again or have it even worse; plus I love some of my patients that I have been with for a year now. I'd hate to leave them!
