could get fired!

[RNmoms]

Nervous, my daughter is a very good nurse and after 6 months on the job got a really good raise. However, the other night a male nurse was really busy and he asked my daughter if she would take a test for his other nurse friend because she didn't finish and is on vacation and the test was due by midnight. Erin tried to help out and said yes, and he gave her this other nurses codes and passwords. Well, my daughter got caught and was yelled at. Now she is worried she will be fired. Does anyone know if this has ever happened before to anyone and do you think she will get fired. she is so mad at herself. she knows better.

[PinayUSA]

Because mommy can solve this

Hush now, baby, baby, don't you cry

Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true

Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you

Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing

She won't let you fly but she might let you sing

Mama's gonna keep baby cosy and warm

[MPKH, BSN, RN]

I know that if any staff at my hospital did that, they'd get into trouble for sure. We're talking suspension, and possibly getting fired.

OP let your daughter deal with the consequences and outcomes of her actions. If she is old enough to have a job and career, she is old enough to deal with the consequences of her actions. Let her make her own mistakes and learn from them.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

A former coworker received a constructive dismissal (a.k.a. forced resignation) for completing surveys using the social security numbers of PRN employees without their permission or knowledge.

She was an administrative assistant who had access to this private information. She completed surveys for these employees because she was under pressure from hospital administration to ensure a 100 percent completion rate. Since some PRN employees do not work every week, she 'completed' their employment engagement surveys for them without their knowledge.

Once the deception was discovered, she was given the choice between resignation or involuntary termination. She chose to resign.

[Farawyn]

Blowing smoke up Mommy's (OP) backside isn't helpful. She asked for opinions on the situation. It's an unpleasant situation that the DD created, the responses aren't going to necessarily be pleasant!

I think he was reminding himself. It looks like That Guy deleted his original post.

[Farawyn]

Hush now, baby, baby, don't you cry

Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true

Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you

Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing

She won't let you fly but she might let you sing

Mama's gonna keep baby cosy and warm

Ooooooh, babe,

Oooooooooh, babe

Ooh, babe,

Of course Mama's gonna help build The Wall!

[That Guy, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I think he was reminding himself. It looks like That Guy deleted his original post.

Correct. I edited myself.

[Farawyn]

Correct. I edited myself.

Now we wanna know.

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

I'm just curious does your daughter do her own research? Previously you were searching for answers if she could get a PA nursing license with a 10 year old DUI now you are asking if her lack of judgement and ethics could get her fired. Your daughter violated company policy, chose not to follow basic moral & ethical codes, showed her new employer that she does not comprehend the seriousness of cheating or accessing a computer system using another coworker's name & password, subject to peer pressure and poor judgement. She has demonstrated that she is a risk to data safety and security. If she expects you to help her to solve her workplace issues she needs to seriously reconsider working as a nurse as independent critical thinking, morality, ethics and good judgement even when faced with adversity are mandatory for success. Everyone makes dumb mistakes the key is to learn from them and move forward.

If I did something similar and went to my parents the response would be "where did you go wrong and what do YOU think you need to do to fix it?"

If asked she needs to reveal who gave her the coworker's access. Clearly they know who she was cheating on behalf of based on the user log in. If this was facility based education it's possible the access was flagged by IT as being active when an employee is off the schedule on vacation.

There are so many issues with this story. Your daughter needs to be prepared for the worst. Termination for cause, ineligible for rehire, ineligible for unemployment and in some states termination for cause must be reported to the BoN (in this case ethics and data security would be the complaint). This could be a very big deal.

Reposting for truth.

Why in the love of anything could any halfway rational nurse thing that would have been ok to access the computer on someone elses log in and do a test for someone else

[canigraduate]

So many ethics violations here.

1) Nurse who handed out her confidential login information for the purpose of cheating on a test - deserves to be terminated.

2) Nurse who threw the other nurse under the bus and passed along said confidential information - deserves to be terminated.

3) Nurse who thought it was OK to take this confidential information and use it to impersonate someone else and cheat on a test - deserves to be terminated.

In all of the facilities I've worked in, there has been a confidentiality policy. Disciplinary action usually starts at written warnings and includes termination as a possible first step. It doesn't matter how "good" the nurse is, they all violated the policy willfully and engaged in unethical acts. There's not any way to sugar coat that.

[eieiyo]

The nursing home I worked at for awhile paid a med aid to take the online continuing ed classes for other nurses so every body was up to date. How illegal is that?

[LL143KnB, BSN, RN]

She can and she should get fired...

[CBlover, BSN, RN]

So many ethics violations here.

1) Nurse who handed out her confidential login information for the purpose of cheating on a test - deserves to be terminated.

Thank you! No one's mentioned that nurse yet who is most to blame. I would NEVER give out my log in information. There's THREE nurses here with extreme lapses in basic standards of workplace confidentiality.