I have recently been promoted to the New Clinical Director of our Assisted Living Facility. I have worked for this company now for 3 years and have been in nursing for 20 years. Part of the problem with me accepting this position is I had to do a transfer from a "sister" facility so the employees do not know me. I have been there now for 3 months and I have not made a lot of changes but the ones I have made were neccessary. The employees have not been held accountable in the past and now I have implemented the attendance policy, which has not gone over well. I have been auditing their documentation, orders, MARS and TARS, etc... I have held two nursing meeting plus individual meeting with each employee to give them a chance to get to know me and my expectations, as well as me getting to know them. I recently had to write a nurse up for a med error; this is the second one I have found on her in the past week. With the first one I pulled her into my office and had a verbal discussion on the error, no write up occured just counseling. Up to this point she has been very willing to help me adjust to the position, willing to do what I have asked, but now with this second error I had to do the med error report and notify the doctor. When I called her into the office to discussion this second error, she became hostile, refused to sign the med error even though she admitted she made a mistake. Now I get the cold shoulder, attitude when I ask her to do something, and to top it off called into the General Managers office to let me know she has filed an EEOC against us. I was in shock so now I am told we need to walk on egg shells because of this. Is this what it has come to....This has nothing to do with race.....It has to do with being an advocate for the resident, to ensure they are safe and well taken cared for........Am I crazy?
