Accusations

Ok, I'm pissed. So a nurse accused me of not charting on a patient two months ago. I want to say ******** on her claims but there is no way to prove either way. This came up today at shift change.

First it pisses me off. She couldn't give me concrete details. It started out as a psych patient and then it was a chest pain that had elevated trops. Two totally different patients. Of course she "remembers" that I didn't have a critical patient or something that would explain why I didn't chart on a patient for two supposed hours. She is also certain that the patient was not moved into the room from the waiting room. I also wasn't able to compare chief complaint to entire complaint (which could explain a potential delay for tasks such as a vague complaint may not fit into any protocol orders). Heck the other day there was a bounce back who turned out to have an elevated trop at a different facility.

I also wonder if she didn't know where to look for stuff. We switched to a new charting system that did cause some people grief. I did well because I've used it before and I had a few ideas how to chart items.

I'm mostly pissed because there is no way to defend myself. It is vague details that happened two months ago. She claimed she hadn't seen me since then except I saw her last month. She claims that it isn't her place to babysit me when I asked her why she didn't say something. She also said I must not have been dinged because she did all the charting.

Anyway, I'm pissed. That is a serious accusation. I can't prove either way whether I did something or not because of length time and how vague her claims are. I usually over chart on patients although with the new system it is hard. I haven't heard anything from any of the charge nurses or the nurse manager so that is also frustrating since I can't defend against some vague claim that may have been not charting on a psych patient or may not have been a chest pain with an elevated trop. Heck, I can't go back that far without flagging in the system to show her x, y, z.

In fact, around that time a charge nurse said my charts had been passing all audits. Now, it's just the ones that they flag but still.