Please Help!

[FutureRNalexandra]

Hello all, maybe you can all help!

I just started a CNA state job and during orientation I ended up reporting a female CNA who has been there for a long time for (1) squeezing a resident's face, rinsing a resident's perineal area when providing perineal care with a basin of water in the bed, and talking about how ill a resident was, how he is going to die soon and how his wife is in denial of how ill he is in front of him and he was alert, but non verbal.

At first I just went to the orientation educator, who happened to be a supervisor, and asked her what I should do because all of those things upset me bc I felt that this CNA was not providing good care to her residents and I asked to keep this anonymous and the supervisor said she would, but then a week later after discussing it with the charge nurse she told me that the CNA would figure out that I said something either way and that they were just going to directly speak to her.

Now, for the past month I have felt that no one is helping me and the CNA that I reported told the charge nurse that I was too slow and talked to the resident's too much and it turns out that this CNA that I reported has been talking bad about me to other CNAs on different shifts and that is why no one is helping me. I found this out because a CNA that was helping me and stayed later was told by someone on a different shift not to help me because I would just go to the supervisors and tell on her.

Today I went to my charge nurse and they are going to look into this and float me until they figure this out. I feel like I did the right thing, but at the same thing I feel like the charge nurse was aggravated and now Im afraid that this will turn into something even bigger.

Please help me! Did I do the right thing? Any suggestions?

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

Of course you did the right thing. The most important part of our job is to protect our patients; keeping them from harm.

Doing the right thing is often very hard and takes a lot of courage.

[xoemmylouox, ASN, RN]

No good deed goes unpunished. You did the right thing, however due to the High School antics of some coworkers you are suffering. I hope it improves, but you may want to start looking at a new place of employment.

[FutureRNalexandra]

Really? You think I should look for another job? This is insane how it has escalated so badly.

My Mom used to be a supervisor there and I know a lot of people there, but this situation has gotten out of hand. I know that I did the right thing, but I feel like I did the wrong thing. This situation is making me hate my job.