Asked about Pyxis discrepancy after resigning

[reggieja1122]

I resigned from a Geropsych RN job due to anxiety and high stress levels. The facility I work for just had an incident where a patient was beat up by staff and 8 staff was fired (including 4 RNs). Also I had a patient that has sent about 7 staff to the ER so when I had patient, I demanded something to be done. Called the psychiatrist (who is very uncooperative and doesn't see his patients daily) about 8 times by 11 am and still nothing was done.....no IMs for psych emergency, no seclusion, no restraints, no one to one ordered. He continued to say "de-escalate". Also our floor is being investigated for discharging patients without shoes and in gowns and for using shady group homes agencies. So needless to say, I resigned. The next day, the nursing supervisor calls me and I explain my anxiety and how unsafe it is to work there. She refers me to employee help website and then moves on to what she really wanted to talk to me about. She then proceeds to say well there is a medication discrepancy from March 14th (its April 9th) and there was one Percocet missing. When I counted, there was 10, took one and now there's 9. Next nurse comes and counts 8. So I explain that I diligently count each time and I've never had any errors my whole nursing career. She says the other nurse had it taken care of by charge nurse. Never was I told that day or asked about it until now, after I've resigned almost a month later. No chance to defend myself, no chance to check my records or anything. Sounds suspicious

So can I be fired for month old Pyxis discrepancy? First one ever....and I'm just now being confronted about it after I quit and 3 1/2 weeks later? Sounds fishy

[CoolKidsRN]

OP, this situation does sound fishy but unfortunately it is not out of the norm for an employer to find a way to terminate you after you have given notice. I'm sorry that you are in this situation however, based on your described experience it maybe best to cut your losses and move on. Have you accepted another position prior to resigning? If not, I would strongly urge you to start looking for another position. Good luck to you.

[ponymom]

Good God, why the hell did you wait so long to leave that pigsty?