I've enjoyed the "Reasons Nurses Get Fired" thread. A member suggested another thread on why nurses don't get fired. So I'll bite . . .
Nurse did not get fired for having sex with patient's husband while patient was on hospice, dying. Nurse is now openly dating patient's widower.
Nurse did not get fired for dating frequent flyer patient, even after being on "Ice Road Truckers" or "Deadliest Catch" or one of those shows (I'll confess to not knowing the difference) with him.
Nurse manager did not get fired for having a drawer full of boxes of Morphine 10 mg. tubexes. Hundreds of boxes of 10 tubexes each. Instead, staff was investigated by FBI and DEA (which really riled up the neighbors as I lived on a military base at the time, and everyone was worried that it was their security clearance under investigation.) Instead, nurse manager was "demoted" to nursing supervisor on days, and was forbidden from carrying the narcotics keys.
I hope the Chicken Little "loose" my license crowd reads this thread...
Ahhhhh...the chicken littles. Have you ever noticed in the nursing field that *** sticks to a wall when thrown, but all other things hit the floor? Why is that ? Its the 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' incessent cesspool of sorority style management that permits misconduct through formation of workplace clicks that shall not be infringed. Its the decent nurses that are either thrown away, or chased out of the job. And the *** on the wall stays where it is.
Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.
Nurse manager not fired for working his PRN job while on duty at the job he was paid to work. His justification - he was available by phone remotely to staff.
Same nurse manager did not fire the "travelling" nurse who did the same thing three years prior - travelling nurse was an NP and was doing intakes for his side gig while being a travelling nurse.
Nurse manager not fired for going into town to get her nails done while supposed to be working, not fired for taking bereavement time off as her daughters gerbil had died. same manager not fired for not actually doing any work and blaming everyone else.
Not fired for supposed to be working but was actually in another country.
I hope the Chicken Little "loose" my license crowd reads this thread...
I'm pretty sure the things that help secure one's job have less to do with being an excellent nurse, as has basically already been acknowledged here. The opposite may well also be true: Things that can threaten employment or employee status may not necessarily be related to poor nursing care.
But since you mentioned licenses, I would bet money that some of the things people like to poo-poo and claim never cause anyone to experience difficulties with license are probably included under broad headings like general negligence, moral character, technical violation, duty violation and other vagueness that could mean just about anything.
I think there is enough power-mongering, greed and vindictiveness out there that people's fears about their license being toyed with are probably a little more justified than what we have historically experienced or felt to be true. Granted, they may not lose their license, but it's a simple fact that threats of reporting people have become commonplace, and actual reporting seems like it is headed in that direction too. No one wants that.
There are ridiculous stories on this thread, admittedly. But the fact that people don't get fired for outrageous behavior doesn't support the fact that chicken littles don't need to worry. In fact, it would tend to suggest the exact opposite, which is that decisions about these things are often so outrageous themselves that at least some degree of concern is justified - - clearly being actually good (or actually bad) at what you do is not the deciding factor...
Nurse manager not fired for working his PRN job while on duty at the job he was paid to work. His justification - he was available by phone remotely to staff.
Same nurse manager did not fire the "travelling" nurse who did the same thing three years prior - travelling nurse was an NP and was doing intakes for his side gig while being a travelling nurse.
Oh, that's not so bad. Think of it at it as an excellent example of "time management"... ?
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
18 hours ago, caliotter3 said:
Nurse did not get fired for sleeping 75% of the time on night shift, directly in the line of sight of the house supervisor. This same nurse did not get fired for pre-pouring and hiding in the med cart, what meds she actually administered during her shift. Nor did the same nurse get fired when it was discovered that she falsified all of the BG readings that she never actually performed. You should have heard what the astute CNAs had to say about her (sometimes within earshot of the house supervisor). I always wondered what she had on the supervisor that caused the supervisor to ignore the transgressions.
Nurse was not fired when her patient, who came into the ED with chest pain, was not put on a monitor and, after having called for assistance and was ignored, went to the bathroom herself and was later found down by housekeeping in the same bathroom in asystole and cold.
Nurse was not fired when her patient, who came into the ED with chest pain, was not put on a monitor and, after having called for assistance and was ignored, went to the bathroom herself and was later found down by housekeeping in the same bathroom in asystole and cold.
Please tell me the family pushed for some accountability or was it covered up?
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Ahhhhh...the chicken littles. Have you ever noticed in the nursing field that *** sticks to a wall when thrown, but all other things hit the floor? Why is that ? Its the 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' incessent cesspool of sorority style management that permits misconduct through formation of workplace clicks that shall not be infringed. Its the decent nurses that are either thrown away, or chased out of the job. And the *** on the wall stays where it is.