I am a recent graduate..In the three months I have been working at two different facilities, I encountered two situations where I got into trouble with the DON and it was not my fault..It was someone else fault but the blame was just put on me.
Situation one:
At my first facility, nurses would have to count narcotics that is locked for every shift..The count was off but the person lied to me saying "How many do you count?" I told her the number and she said, "Yea, that is how many." It turns out that I found out later in the day, she lied just to blame the miscount on my shift..As you can see, I did not last too long after that incident..
Situation two:
There was a missed medication that supposed to be in the medication administration record..The admitting nurse just missed writing it in the medication administration record..Well, to place blame on a person, the admitting nurse accused me of losing the page...The DON also accused me...Now what am I going to do with a page with one drug listed on it?
Now, I have been in the job for three months..And three months is not a long time..Now the situation I see is very bad overall..Is the nursing profession, typically like this or did I end up with some bad apples?
