Can anyone explain to me why me and my co-workers got yelled at??

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Specializes in Licensed Practical Nurse.

i work nights in ltc as an lpn, i was charge nurse, so here's some facts about where i work and what happened

-shifts starts at 11pm

-at night there is one nurse(charge) and 2 cna's for 40 residents.

-staff must call in 2 hours prior if they cannot come in for work.

supervisor called my floor @ 11:40 p and says that one of the other units has no cna's, so she pulls one of my cna's and tells me that i have to share cna's with the hospice unit because they only have 8 patients. unsafe staffing but fine no problem, i tell one of my cna's to go to the other unit, i go to the hospice unit to confer with them about our the fact that i only have 1 cna left and that i have to share with them. i go back to my work. the cna goes to the other unit within 15 min of the supervisors initial call.around the same time the supervisor calls screaming at me asking why the cna isnt on the other unit, and asks me why i'm defying orders because i'm the charge nurse and not picking up the phone and that the other unit has no nurse or cna's, she was so loud on the phone and so disrespectful words couldnt even come to my mouth so i hung up the phone. half an hour later the supervisor comes to the floor and continues to argue with me over what happened and that there are so much things that she has to handle being supervisor.i told her that i and the cna followed through with her orders, and that no one had refused her decision and also that staffing the other unit was not my problem to take care of! she tells me that i should take this as a warning! apparently no-one likes this supervisor, she is not helpful, staff is always short when she works and on top of it all she tells other staff to find people to come in when they are low on staff, she even made a cna cry the same night because of a residents death i'm a new nurse and i could not believe that someone who supposed to be the supervisor could loose their cool and become so unprofessional, its almost as if she was blaming me for low staffing on the other unit! the only reason i maintained proper staffing levels that night on my unit is because the hospice cna called another cna at 12 midnight asking her to come in, i just had to vent!:angryfire

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Specializes in Med Surg, Ortho, Tele, ICU, Hospice.

Wow. How about, uhm.. ahem

Your mutual desire to provide excellent patient care caused some frustration when your abilities were limited by circumstances beyond your control, and your supervisor got the erroneous impression that her attempts to make the best of it were being arbitrarily foiled.

Shoulda brought my waders, I'm shin deep in it already.

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Wow. How about, uhm.. ahem

Your mutual desire to provide excellent patient care caused some frustration when your abilities were limited by circumstances beyond your control, and your supervisor got the erroneous impression that her attempts to make the best of it were being arbitrarily foiled.

Shoulda brought my waders, I'm shin deep in it already.

hmm me thinks it is heading fer yur knees

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.

Sure I can! You got yelled at becuase you allow and tolerat it, wich as an adult, you shouldn't. Except in an emergency (and then only to get attention or to be heard) there is simplely no excuse for an adult to yell at another at work.

Stop tolerating it, you are just encouraging your sup to act childsh.

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The supervisor needs to be written up.

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Specializes in IM/Critical Care/Cardiology.
Sure I can! You got yelled at becuase you allow and tolerat it, wich as an adult, you shouldn't. Except in an emergency (and then only to get attention or to be heard) there is simplely no excuse for an adult to yell at another at work.

Stop tolerating it, you are just encouraging your sup to act childsh.

Sounds to me that the OP tolerated it (even tho it's wrong) and showed respect in some fashion, then her supervisor makes her cry over a death.

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Specializes in Licensed Practical Nurse.

tolerate it, oh no, when she came up on the floor I told her exactly what I felt and walked away! she made someone else on another floor cry, another nurse wrote her up before, we're planning on going to the director about this, it seems to be an ongoing problem!

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Specializes in IM/Critical Care/Cardiology.
tolerate it, oh no, when she came up on the floor I told her exactly what I felt and walked away! she made someone else on another floor cry, another nurse wrote her up before, we're planning on going to the director about this, it seems to be an ongoing problem!

OK I get it , I misread she made a CNA cry about a patients death. Your original post seemed as if you were worried about this nurses return and the possible retaliation, but hey, if you got it together great. Tolerating is an action same as respect. No wonder the Sup shakes her head if your screaming at her or uncontrollably able to rationally describe the situation and then walking away. Stay in control of the situation.

Sorry if my opinion and any suggestion to try to help you for the help,you asked for upsets you.

I agree, keep going up the ladder. cya and save your license. Hope that doesn't make you want to walk away.

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Specializes in Jack of all trades, and still learning.
tolerate it, oh no, when she came up on the floor I told her exactly what I felt and walked away! she made someone else on another floor cry, another nurse wrote her up before, we're planning on going to the director about this, it seems to be an ongoing problem!

Good on you. If others have put in complaints, and more than one of you are putting one in now, then maybe someone will put the wind up her! I don't believe in 'what goes around comes around' but this super sounds like she needs a bit of education on management skills and communication.

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I hate to be the first one saying it, but I would seriously be out of there.

She is verbally assaulting you.

Is there any recourse?? If management knows she's like this and does nothing, (which sounds like the case), they'll probably continue to do nothing, poop

generally rolls downhill.

I wouldn't be surprised if something went wrong and she blamed you.

Save yourself and your license, from the supervisor from hell.

I would tell the pyscho, I came in peace, and am leaving in peace, and submit my resignation, to higher ups.

There's nothing worse, than evil superiors.

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Specializes in CVICU-ICU.

Why is the answer to alot of problems/questions posted on here to just leave the job instead of dealing with the issue. I know there are alot of unsafe practices and situations that I have seen where the best option was to leave and I agreed with those situations however I do not feel from what the OP wrote that she should leave this position.

I agree with the posters who said she should not allow the supervisior to speak to her like that and in those situations I'd walk away and tell her I'd be available to speak to her about the situation when she calms down. I agree with documenting and going to the higher ups about the situation and if it goes unresolved then I'd go outside of the facility and contact a labor board/attorney regarding workplace abuse.

I just think that so many times instead of dealing with the issues regarding verbal abuse we as nurses walk away or tolerate it instead of dealing with it which in return just allows those in the wrong to continue to do what is not right.

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Specializes in IM/Critical Care/Cardiology.
Why is the answer to alot of problems/questions posted on here to just leave the job instead of dealing with the issue. I know there are alot of unsafe practices and situations that I have seen where the best option was to leave and I agreed with those situations however I do not feel from what the OP wrote that she should leave this position.

I agree with the posters who said she should not allow the supervisior to speak to her like that and in those situations I'd walk away and tell her I'd be available to speak to her about the situation when she calms down. I agree with documenting and going to the higher ups about the situation and if it goes unresolved then I'd go outside of the facility and contact a labor board/attorney regarding workplace abuse.

I just think that so many times instead of dealing with the issues regarding verbal abuse we as nurses walk away or tolerate it instead of dealing with it which in return just allows those in the wrong to continue to do what is not right.

Exactly, stay in control with your complaint. Don't accept non-compliant policy follow-up from your sup and stand up for yourself if being abused by confronting the abuser (with a witness). Never said to "just tolerate it", meant to say "tolerate" it with control and follow-through with what is nec. The reply I got back sounded pretty harsh to me and I wonder if the problem swings both ways, making it hard for the manager to deal correctly with the correct person for the correct reason.

I wish the OP the best in her future.

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