Darned if you don't, darned if you do

[hookyarnandblanket]

I am a very thick-skinned person, but when someone continually attacks me because their perception of what I am or am not doing does not match with reality, I have a problem. And it's coming from more than one angle.

On one angle, it's coming from a new co worker who does it to cover up her own inadequacies, and that I know how to address. However, the other angle is coming from a RN occasionally works the floor but thinks I don't do anything on the floor. She has been rude and hateful to me from the beginning of my first week at my job. She's known to be in the hospital gossip group, and she constantly rides me for not doing things that I am doing. I don't know why she doesn't like me and that doesn't matter but I am fed up with her almost literally following me to see what I am doing or trying to catch me not doing what I am supposed to be doing. Today, she accused me of taking too many breaks. I was in and out of patient rooms during the time she thought I wasn't. I have resorted to documenting what I am doing throughout the shift so I can have proof of what I am doing. The DON has not said anything about me not doing my work, but it makes my shift miserable when someone is following me around and making false accusations.

Other than documenting, how else do I address this? They won't fire her, and HR will brush it off. I'm at my wits end.

[Purple_roses]

Sometimes going the extra mile for someone like that makes them calm down. (It doesn't always work, but it's worth a shot.) Do your normal job duties (like you're already doing) and then go out of your way to ask her (the RN) if there's anything extra you can do to help her. For whatever reason, whether valid or not, she apparently thinks you are doing less than your best. Prove to her that there is no reason for her to worry and no reason for her to follow you around. Tackling these situations in this way hurts your pride, but has always worked for me in the long run. It's always better to at least try to solve things peacefully.

[Missingyou, CNA]

Ask this nurse for a time when the two of you can talk about what has been happening....

altho, I suspect that this won't go over well for you...infact, it may make it worse.....scratch that.

Make an appointment with the DON and let her know that you feel it's important to have a talk with this nurse and you feel it would be best with them (DON) to be present. You can tell the DON what you feel has been happening and want to straighten things out.

Get it all out in the open.

If push comes to shove, you may have to consider moving to another floor/unit or hang in there and hope that this nurse moves or quits.

[hookyarnandblanket]

I believe now that it all boils down to her personally not liking me and letting it bleed over professionally. She interrogated me today about what activities were done, who did what, and pretty much acted like she didn't believe a word I said. She is not the activity director (whom I was filling g in for today) and she is not the DON. The other nurses know what I do with the patients; she purely is an ugly person on the inside and lets it spew at work. I basically brushed her comments off and went about my work, just like I do on a daily basis. It eats her up inside that she can't figuratively beat me down. I'm pretty sure she has been caught not answering call lights when I have been the only CNA on the floor and was in a patient's room doing patient care, and has been caught on her phone answering personal text messages while call lights were going off. This, I believe, has resulted in the excrement rolling downhill and because she has yet to break me, I am her prime target. No matter; if there were valid issues with my work, the DON would have addressed it by now.

[Momof8CNA]

oh, i dealt with this a few months ago...i worked on a certain floor in the hospital, and the nurse had a stick up her ass or SOMETHING, but she told HR that i was refusing to do my work, that all i did was talk on my phone, etc etc. well, i almost got fired..i told them to talk to the other cnas, and the unit clerk/other nurses and that she would see that it was a bald faced lie, which they did and saw that it was. i would bring it up to the nursing supervisor before it snowballs.