I work at a government run Magnet hospital in the East SF Bay area, with a group of wonderful RNs. The problem is, Management is pressuring RNs to sign off on training which they haven't received.
This is how it works. Our Nursing Education department, sends out an email to the floor RNs, saying that there is a new policy (or protocol, or procedure, etc.) and that it is the "Nurses Responsibility" to conform to policy.
Then Management sends senior RNs (aka Staff Nurse 3s and 4s), to each unit to with blank training forms which they ask you to sign to "update your training records." Regardless of which senior RN is assigned to you, they all use the same key words saying "
Last year, a Staff Nurse 3 harassed me for nine months, to sign-off on training and I finally caved in and signed. A while later, one of my coworkers had a patient go bad, and she was suspended without pay, and then had to go through a probationary period where she was closely monitored. When she filed a union grievance, Management produced her training record, with all this training signed off as completed by her. I'm a single parent, and I need my job. I'm just so afraid that a patient will go bad, and I'll be the next one to be thrown under a bus.