BYOB at work?

Nope, the point was you brought up Nazis and that is an inappropriate comment. Just say you are sorry. Let's try to talk our way through this so no one gets reported.

No one gets reported? Are you serious?

She brought up Nazis because of Godwin's Law.

Methinks thou doth protest too much. The consensus seems to be that you were in the wrong.

I don't think the OP was necessarily WRONG, per se. Just acting so ridiculously dramatic about the whole thing that I think many of us are just playing along at this point.

No one gets reported? Are you serious?

She brought up Nazis because of Godwin's Law.

He :) But thanks for the backup

Methinks thou doth protest too much. The consensus seems to be that you were in the wrong. And hyperbolic in your description of your experience. Hopefully you take the opinions and criticism of other nurses as direction to be less quick to judge and report in the future, and more likely to see the whole picture, rather than take the narrow view of "it's against the rules, and I need to be the almighty gatekeeper!"

Good luck to you, OP, hope you can find a way to work with the people you have already alienated.

Nah. I don't usually seek the approval of co-workers that do stuff like this. Also, the quote you used from Shakespeare is meant to mean that someone is guilty of the same act or crime and they are making a BIG deal about someone else doing the same thing in order to throw the attention away from themselves. So, yeah in this situation that quote just doesn't apply. Also, the consensus doesn't seem to be that I was in the wrong at all. I expected a whole lot of snarkiness when I posted this because that's just the way the internet works. Also because drinking alcohol in the United States is a national pastime and beer is as American as apple pie.

I see volumes written on here about how nurses fight with each other and how it drags a person down on the job. This forum is certainly an example of that. I have quite a few people on here who immediately were incensed by the fact that I "reported" this nurse and then they posted snarky little remarks.

That tells me volumes about them. They likely see themselves as the nurse who was reported. They likely put themselves in that nurse's shoes and this is why they are so defensive.

Your comment about "Seeing the whole picture" tells me a whole lot about what you do at work. Maybe you can explain to me what the "Whole picture is"? Do you routinely bring alcohol from home and administer it to vulnerable adults without a doctor's order?

If so WHY not just get a doctor's order for it? Or is there something to hide?

You see, THAT is the bigger picture and while you were banging away on your keyboard trying your best to cut me down to size; I was ten steps ahead of you. The "bigger picture" here isn't that this nurse gave some resident a beer and that is so acceptable because it was "Just a beer". The bigger picture here is WHY?

You are standing at the Grand Canyon busy looking at the sign at your feet while I'm looking out over the vast expanse in front of me.

I was told that this nurse has been doing this type of activity for a long time with other residents. The question I asked myself is WHY would a nurse do that? Why not simply call and get a doctor's order for it and be done? Our med room has several cases of different beers and a couple of bottles of brandi sitting right there so it's not a big deal AT ALL to call and get a doctor's order. We also happen to have a wonderful house doctor who gets these residents whatever they like or need to feel at home. So again ask yourself WHY would this nurse do this? On that note, as I say our med room has several cases of different beers so WHY bring in a beer from home?

Judge Judy says if someone is telling you something and it doesn't add up it's because they are lying to you.

I was also told that over the course of time there have been many, many other staff who have written this nurse up for this and nothing had gotten done about it. So I say to myself something is fishy in Denmark and it's not the fish. None of it makes any sense.

Well, it's because this nurse was obviously hiding something.

I can see from your comments calling me "The almighty gate keeper" that you are one of those kinds of nurses. If that is the standard where you are then I'm glad I'm not there. Bullying has no place in nursing but wow it's sure full of it. Thank you for showing me your true colors.

Perhaps the OP could've read something like this:

You become aware that, although a chronically ill, totally dependent, elderly resident in your facility has no order that allows nursing to administer an alcoholic beverage, a nurse is bringing in beer [from HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] which she uses to drug the patient during her shifts because she ain't got time for his annoying behavior. What do you do?

Poll choices:

__ Report It!

************

There. #SolvedonAN

Perhaps the OP could've read something like this:

You become aware that, although a chronically ill, totally dependent, elderly resident in your facility has no order that allows nursing to administer an alcoholic beverage, a nurse is bringing in beer [from HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] which she uses to drug the patient during her shifts because she ain't got time for his annoying behavior. What do you do?

Poll choices:

__ Report It!

************

There. #SolvedonAN

I'll take it under advisement.

Also, I can see now that I should have clarified the word, "report". It makes people think I called up the state BON and squawked like a wet hen over the phone. I simply wrote up the exact events as they were presented to me and handed it in to the correct department as is required by both my BON and the policy of my facility.

This is a tough crowd.

No one gets reported? Are you serious?

She brought up Nazis because of Godwin's Law.

BREATHE! (Are you always this defensive?) "Attack mode" is not a healthy state to live in. Wow.

He :) But thanks for the backup

D'oh! Sorry!

BREATHE! (Are you always this defensive?) "Attack mode" is not a healthy state to live in. Wow.

Another example of tone not coming across well via written medium. I'm not defensive or attacking. The tone in which I wrote that post was one of amused incredulity.