Coworker forged my signature...

[sofla98]

I found out that a nurse I work with forged my signature on a form stating we traded holidays. By her doing this, she's off all the "good" holidays and only works on New Years Eve and has me working both Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve!

i originally did trade with her, my Thanksgiving for her Christmas Eve. She filled out the form shortly after the original trade. Luckily, the person in charge of these things is aware of the original trade. She also implicated that this person also was involved in her scheme, by directly lying and saying she was aware of the fictitious trade.

I reported this to our boss and to the person she named on then form...Needless to say, the other person was VERY unhappy that she did this and said that she would take care of it.

I am am pretty sure that I will be able to prove that I NEVER made this trade, had no idea about it, and prove that she is a sociopathic liar, manipulator and cheat.

Btw, this is hardly the first time she has done something like this to a coworker. She's even changed someones ENTIRE schedule and lied about it then, too.

tis person is absolutely the WORST nurse I have ever worked with and her level of crazy is off the charts. She's scary, has that dead eyed look of a true psycho but seems to always manipulate and lie her way out of ANYTHING. Many people have notified management of things she's said or done, poor patient care, etc. but yet they do NOTHING to discipline her.

Anyone experience anything like this in their years of nursing? How was it handled? TIA!

[RNNPICU, BSN, RN]

Maybe contact HR as she forged your signature. It seems as though this should be taken up higher. You could file a complaint with HR and at least it would be documented.

Yikes.

Good Luck

[Caffeine_IV]

Whenever I sign a swap shift sheet, I make a copy of the original. So if someone alters or loses anything, I have my copy for evidence

[caliotter3]

You need to actively protect yourself from this person's behavior at all times from your description in your post. You have reported the incident, now I would avoid her as much as possible and cross her off your list of people to trade shifts with. If she whines, be up front with her. She should not need to ask why she is no longer able to ask you for favors.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Hard to believe management and administration has not acted on these behaviors.

Most facilities have a code of conduct in place that would have her out the door by now.

Document, document, document and stay as far away from this psycho as possible.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

And malpractice insurance. Get it if you do not have it. You never, ever know how many shades of whacked this person can become. About much more than the schedule.

I, too, am utterly amazed at the wonderful nurses who run away in droves, who are let go in the most bizarre circumstances, who are "spoken to", written up, reprimanded about the most weirdest of the weird.....yet the out of control, blatantly outrageous, in one's face inappropriate, to almost illegal nurse is left to rack up the depravity--unscathed.

In happening to be a party to a "reprimand" such as this (as an impartial advocate situation) the "now, now we all know 'how you are' Nurse Nutcase, so hee, hee, haw, haw stop scaring the other nurses and be good now!! HAHAHAHAHA!! Nurse Nutcase doesn't MEAN anything by it, it was a misunderstanding!! So go play nice and try and get along..." (as if the one who brings up these things somehow is also in the wrong----Uhm, there's only one nurse who can't seem to "get along") Cripes on a cracker by the end of these meetings that should be held in a circle on the floor criss/cross applesauce style, and have the quote of the day on a giant whiteboard-- I was ready to be handed out juice boxes, and be required to pinky swear we will try to be good. The ONLY thing that I wanted to take home from that was A) Can I bring my blankie, and B) Can we be required to have a nap time.

When grown nurses (or people in any professional setting) act like preschool would be pushing their limitations of behavior, you have got to wonder what the heck management is thinking. Maybe that it reinforces the notion that as long as you stick to the script, who cares if you can actually be a professional? Just give the illusion that you are around the patients, please.

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

Maybe she is sleeping with, related to, or threatening the bosses. Or being used by bosses to get peers in trouble.

Not sure what I'd do, but would consider involving HR, Management, even police. She is very dangerous. How's her care of patients? doing drugs? being beaten up at home? How are her children (if any)? Abuse?

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

Hard to believe management and administration has not acted on these behaviors.

Most facilities have a code of conduct in place that would have her out the door by now.

Document, document, document and stay as far away from this psycho as possible.

It's actually not hard to imagine at all, sadly.

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

And malpractice insurance. Get it if you do not have it. You never, ever know how many shades of whacked this person can become. About much more than the schedule.

I, too, am utterly amazed at the wonderful nurses who run away in droves, who are let go in the most bizarre circumstances, who are "spoken to", written up, reprimanded about the most weirdest of the weird.....yet the out of control, blatantly outrageous, in one's face inappropriate, to almost illegal nurse is left to rack up the depravity--unscathed.

In happening to be a party to a "reprimand" such as this (as an impartial advocate situation) the "now, now we all know 'how you are' Nurse Nutcase, so hee, hee, haw, haw stop scaring the other nurses and be good now!! HAHAHAHAHA!! Nurse Nutcase doesn't MEAN anything by it, it was a misunderstanding!! So go play nice and try and get along..." (as if the one who brings up these things somehow is also in the wrong----Uhm, there's only one nurse who can't seem to "get along") Cripes on a cracker by the end of these meetings that should be held in a circle on the floor criss/cross applesauce style, and have the quote of the day on a giant whiteboard-- I was ready to be handed out juice boxes, and be required to pinky swear we will try to be good. The ONLY thing that I wanted to take home from that was A) Can I bring my blankie, and B) Can we be required to have a nap time.

When grown nurses (or people in any professional setting) act like preschool would be pushing their limitations of behavior, you have got to wonder what the heck management is thinking. Maybe that it reinforces the notion that as long as you stick to the script, who cares if you can actually be a professional? Just give the illusion that you are around the patients, please.

Jade, you win the award for the most hilarious colloquialisms, euphemisms, idioms, and analogies in a single post. Booyah!

[Nola009]

Wow, that's down and dirty!! I'm thankful I don't work eith anyone like her!! If your nurse manager didn't fire her already (which according to any HR rules/regs she SHOULD have), contact HR. I would not feel safe working with a psycho like that!

[valliloves]

Last time I checked, forging someone else's signature is a convictable crime. Report it to the police and do not turn back. They can prove it is not you who signed the document by comparing handwriting and finger printing. Sociopaths will continue to target you if you do not hand over consequences. Take it from someone who has personal experience with one.

[Emergent, RN]

I pick up all shifts by email or text. I love my manager. Email or text is a legal document.