my co-worker set me up

[Ms.RN]

i'm upset right now becuase my co-worker set me up. i called her today and asked her if she can work for me today. we have to get approval from either don or staff scheduler to approve schedule change. she said she will call me back if its been approved or not. few minutes later she called me back and said she talk to don and she said she approved it. so me being so stupid i trusted her and thinking i didnt have to work today. i come back home and don left message on my answering machine that i didnt show up to work???? :flmngmd::flmngmd::flmngmd::flmngmd: i'm really ****** off right now because this evil person set me up.:devil: if i talk to don about this she's going to deny everything. any advice?

[S.Gettes]

Unfortunatley there isn't much you can do, this co worker got you good, All you can do now is learn from the experience and tell your DON what has happened and make sure it does not happen again. There may be a legitimate explaination behind it all, they may have assumed it would be fine and told you so and then forgotten to contact the DON to make sure, they may have contacted another person instead who okayed it all and forgot about it, that is the problem when you don't do something yourself, you just don't know what actually happened for this to result in the first place. Next time I would contact the DON yourself first and make sure that you are allowed to swap shifts with someone, then contact some co workers until you find one that will swap with you or just take that shift for you full stop.