i have been written up for many things in my nursing career and most things i can see fault of my own and learn from that mistake. however, we just got a new nurse manager and i was written up. guess what for?
-not putting periods at the end of my sentences when charting
i cannot believe she pulled me away from patient care, to tell me i forgot 2 periods at the end of 2 sentences.
really, out of all the things she could have gotten on to me about??
any comments? have you ever been in trouble/written up/ talked too about something, that was silly? please share!!
One time I was working in a prison where the written word is often outside the inmate's grasp. I had done an assessment for complaints of hematuria and asked the inmate for a urine sample. He wrote a formal complaint (grievance) stating that to do a lab test without an MD order was operating outside my "bounces"..........yes, us tiggers will operate outside our bounces.
I know a nurse that was in trouble for smiling too much.
And myself when I was a CNA I was wrote up for being insubordinate, I asked the nurses the rationale for doing sudden things (like BP's)...I was in nursing school and trying to learn....they didn't see it that way.
How about making a personal phone call during my lunch break. Silly me I thought if we had phone calls we needed to make we should do it on our break.:monkeydance:
At my old job, I was written up for "explaining how to use the call system" the complainer " I used to work here, duh I know how to use the call system", too bad she didn't use the call system, just grabbed me in the hallway as i was going by. The bad thing is, she wasn't even the patient. I was checking the patient chart for pain meds and overheard her telling someone on the phone "I'll have that b@#$% job". Well in a way she did, I was written up three times in two months after that, each time that was brought up. :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire
Specializes in ER/Nuero/PHN/LTC/Skilled/Alzheimer's.
Never been written up for anything in my nursing career so far (where's the "knock on wood" smiley?) but in my other jobs, let's see:
When I worked in daycare I was told I fed/played with the children too much.
When I worked in retail I was told I talked to the customers too much and I was written up one time because a fire broke out in the restaraunt attached to our store (in a stripmall) and I didn't stay in the store with the firefighters while they were cutting a hole in the backroom connector wall to put out the fire that was raging on the other side!:angryfire
Specializes in Diabetes ED, (CDE), CCU, Pulmonary/HIV.
During my original orientation as a new RN, my preceptor wrote me up for just about everything I did or didn't do. I was using a penlight to check pt's pupils. She wrote me up for not closing all the blinds and turning off every light in the room. I explained that the pt's eyes were so dark brown that I couldn't see them with the room so dark. She also wrote me up for humming.:Melody: :trout: :trout: :trout:
At the end of my orientation I wrote a long letter to our Nurse Manager. I described one incident in which we were transporting a pt from his room by stretcher. She pulled the pillow(one I had put there) from under his head causing his head to hit the stretcher. He told me to "keep that china away from me." (she isn't Chinese, but that's what he called her.) When our NM called us in to her office to discuss my letter, the nurse threatened to sue me if the presence of my letter in her personnel file had any effect on her career.
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Mulan
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in an eval, how about "excessively punctual"