Bad employee evaluation review?

[sungrl01]

Hey everyone..I just had my first bad employee review. I am still a relatively new RN and my charge nurse wrote basically every negative comment that one say about someone. My nurse manager was saying that it was not bad and I got a few dollars in a raise. I know the charge nurse hasn't exactly been friendly to me since day one which I find very unfortunate. My nurse manager kept trying to make me feel better and told me not to worry. I understand in every review that there are negative comments but I would expect positive as well I would think. Or are reviews normally like that? I promise I saw NO positive comments. I just have strong work ethic and hate having that in my record. Any thoughts?

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

If I received a review that was as bad as you make this one sound, I'd quickly be asking for the documentation of my poor performance over the previous twelve months. If the documentation wasn't available or didn't exist, there would have to be some changes made to the performance review. Those things follow you around. This poor review could be used as justification for dismissal if you violate a policy in the future.

[amyinga]

I'm assuming your nurse manager has an idea that the charge nurse may not particularly care for you and she (the charge nurse) may just be one of those negative type people and your charge nurse is probably aware and that may be the reason she's not concerned. I would just shake it off :)

[brownbook]

I don't know exactly how bad the review was? However I have told this story too many times to count.

I was a new night time supervisor. My boss asked me to write a review/evaluation of a night clerk. I praised him highly. Honest to God, he was a good worker, always calling me to say he was caught up, or his unit wasn't busy was there somewhere that needed his help. He was kind, friendly, helpful, etc.. So what could I do but give him an excellent evaluation, all high marks.

My boss gave it back to me after she had evaluated it and said "If you give him all high marks you can't show that he improved on his next evaluation."

Ever since then I have not paid the slightest attention to evaluations. I am a good nurse, but know "they can't give me high marks....how will I improve next time?"

Toooooo stupid!

[Nomayo]

Those peer reviews should be nixed. They give folks who don't like you, or want a promotion that you might be competition for, a way to tear you down. When you see some negative comments that were embellished or a flat out lie. Here's one thing you can do, before signing the evaluation, most allow you to make a comment. A coworker I knew had the best advice, you can mention the issue, or incident noted and saw you don't agree with it as during the period of time you have been working, it was never brought to your attention for review. If you have a Charge nurse giving you a hard time, keep a daily journal of comments, conversations, even the acuity of your pt load. When you are caught off guard by a manager who has been fed information by the enemy, you will have some ground to stand on when you pull out that journal to retell the events, pot shots and humiliation by that lead.