Impersonating a Nurse - Page 6

As far as the BON, my complaint only mentioned her claims to be a nurse vs. her actual credentials, and offered evidence supporting that. I understand that the BON cares nothing about these issues. I've already submitted this complaint, in writing, with evidence and witness names attached.

My company, on the other hand, is constantly drilling into us proper dress code, proper language, proper conduct, and professionalism - so it is in their best interest to weed out employees who do not present a professional demeanor or practice professional conduct. In addition, I can't imagine that they would endorse conduct such as routine discourteous and demeaning treatment of subordinates, as well as other clearly inappropriate behavior. Although, to be fair, their number one concern should also be around her claims to be a nurse as well - but from what I understand now, they were already aware of this and chose to do nothing.

There is no physician onsite. We work off site, in the field. She supervises everything, not just non-nursing duties. She tells us how to take blood pressure, how to perform venipuncture, how to give injections. At every step of the way she is hovering over you telling you that you are doing everything wrong (because you do it differently from her). She's a bully, plain and simple.

If it were simply a matter of her being insecure and wanting her friends to think she is a nurse, I would not waste my time on it. But she is unprofessional and embarrassing (middle age year old professionals who are the manager should not have rap ringtones at work or attempt to use rap and ebonics at work, and she is not African American). And normally I would not care one iota about her personal choices and appearance, but our employer constantly reminds us that we are to wear pressed clothes, clean hair, little makeup, minimal jewelry, no visible tattoos or piercings, polished shoes, etc.

So yes, in this case, where the rest of us are following the dress code, shouldn't she? And she does look extremely unprofessional, and acts unprofessionally as well. It's not one thing, it's the whole package. In addition, she is constantly micromanaging, over controlling, hyper critical, and demeaning to the rest of the staff (even to MSNs).

When she's not busy attempting to make us feel incompetent and reprimanding us loudly in front of patients, she is laughing far too loudly and on her phone texting her boyfriend (who is now also our boss) or loudly discussing inappropriate topics at work (like how she told us in detail how she applied to be a cocktail waitress on the set of a porno movie) and checking in on Facebook. She makes us all miserable.

Why should I not be able to point out that not only is she "impersonating a nurse", but that she also consistently breaks every rule the rest of us follow, from dress code to not using our cell phones at work. On top of that, each boyfriend she gets ends up working here too, and they also end up being supervisors (as supervisors can recommend non-supervisors' promotion).

So it is not just about her Internet profile - that by itself would be nothing - it is a combination of things that make it miserable to work under her, including the fact that she IS violating the law by claiming to be a nurse - not just online but in person as well, to patients, colleagues, and clients. In the event of an emergency, she could endanger a patient. That has happened before at our work - where non-nurse "leads" responded inappropriately to medical emergencies.

As an example, one lead attempted to feed a patient having a seizure. Another attempted to give an epinephrine injection to a man who was not having any sort of allergic reaction whatsoever. If it weren't for the nurses present, these non-medical leads would have done these things! I get along with everyone else at work, and I don't care what their title is as long as they do a good job and treat everyone with respect and courtesy.

I am always polite, courteous, and professional at work - even to this person! f I am sad, it is because my otherwise pleasant and enjoyable job is now miserable because of this horrible bully. If any of us did any of these things, we would promptly be fired.

She claims also, in person, at work, that she is a nurse, has a nursing degree, and has a nursing career. She also directs the real nurses who work under her on how we do our nursing duties. It is not just a matter of Internet postings.

The only reason she did not tell our employer she was a nurse is because she's smart enough to know that they would have attempted to verify her license. Thus, she avoided the one guaranteed way to be caught impersonating a nurse - yet still gets to "pretend" to be a nurse, in her social life AND at work supervising actual nurses.

I guarantee you that if you had a supervisor who was an MA, and that supervisor was claiming to be a nurse when she wasn't, and that supervisor constantly told you how to be a nurse (and how you know nothing and are doing everything wrong), you would be upset too.

And imagine if your "boss" then got her boyfriend (a high school graduate and waiter/cook) hired and quickly promoted him to boss as well?

And imagine if the MAs, CNAs, LNAs, and phlebotomists that you worked with were unable to handle an emergency situations and that it was left to you to 1) respond appropriately and 2) to keep these non-nursing staff from doing unsafe things, and 3) it was your license on the line in the end.

Would it be "sad and pathetic" for you to be upset over the situation in it's entirety?