Horrific Write Ups? Has it ever happened to you?

[NonieJuice]

I had a write up early on in my nursing career.

I worked nights and did 7p 7a. I had a patient who was in with pneumonia, but had a long psychiatric history, but honestly was very high functioning and appeared stable from basic interactions.

I had an uneventful night with her and called it a wrap at the end of my shift.

THe next day I was called to come in as my manager needed to "speak to me". I came in and was floored!! The patient who I cared for the night before claimed I told her " I don't empty commodes, I will have the CNA come and help you". and that "I will have the CNA bring you some soda and crackers".

I had proof by witnesses that I was caring for this patient solo. NO CNA that night. I waited on her hand and foot and even brought her 7-p several times.... so it was unfounded.

I WAS WRITTEN UP!

My only response to my manage was, you know my practice, you know how I am with patients. I have staff willing to vouch for me I was solo and you are taking the word of a patient with a known psych history over me? I feel really hurt.....

I was a new RN, but it opened my eyes to the hospital.

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

I once had a young female patient who was in the hospital cause of a suicide attempt claim she had been groped by that "male nurse, the big guy in blue scrubs". My crappy manager, without even looking into anything immediately wrote me up and suspended me. She had to lift my suspension when it was proven that I was off on the 2 days that patient was in the hospital and never even set foot in the hospital during her stay and that patient and I had never laid eyes on each other. I immediately started looking for another job.

Did you make it known to your Manager's boss how your Manager treated you, jumped to conclusions, didn't even bother to talk to you or make sure you were on duty on the day of the allegation?

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

I was written up for buttering toast wrong. The patient felt humiliated because I didn't spread the butter out to the very edge...I left a small edge dry. I was given toast training so it didn't happen again.

I was written up because I only gave a little girl one sticker in the ER (even though it was an unwritten rule that we only gave one.)

I was written up for not helping an ER patient when I was an ER patient myself.

I was written up because a patient thought I had tapped her phone so I could listen to her personal conversations

Is this all in the same facility?! I really hope you don't work there anymore.

This should be given to every state Board, every Nursing school recruiter site, every legislator. It is so ridiculous, so disrespectful, such a waste of time. Did they want you to leave or what? Was it 1 Manager who did all this writing?

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

Had a DON call me at home at 11am (I worked nocs) saying it was critical I come back to work. I drove back half asleep and she presented me with a write up coz I did not notify family in a timely fashion that a resident had fallen. The fall happened at around 545am, he rolled off a low bed onto a floor mat. No injuries, and he got himself up (told me he did not need me to help).

Notified MD, did my neuros, passed a couple of meds in between my Q15neuros. At 630a, I called the family and notified. RP says ok,,thanks.

I documented everything and went home only to be called and told that they did not feel I notified the family soon enough.

That's B*S*.

I did not sign the write up, but I read the signs very clearly and looked for a new job immediately.

This is pure insanity. 45 minutes went by and that was too slow?

[rnbusmgr]

yes hospital politics is craaazzzzy, the patient is always right it seems, i sure would like for them to back the employee once in a while. my horrific write up was unbelievable. I was working on a medical floor with 3 nurses and a tech, one of the other nurses' patients expired. it was at 0600 and we were about to change shifts so we were all running and doing our morning stuff. i went home after my shift that morning. i found out a few days later by a meeting with my nuse manager that i was written up for showing no compassion to that family. someone from the family complained that the hospital staff showed no compassion that morning. this was not even my patient; i was taking care of my own as well as helping the nurse finalize things with the death then gave report and went home. i was written up for "detrimental patient care" and patient neglect. it beats all i've ever seen. the nurse who was responsible for the patient got fired. the other nurse on the floor didn't get written up, i just didn't understand it.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

I was asked to resign from my last job because a pt wrote a letter containing lots of BS and droplets of truth. I was never even asked if it was true. That's fine. These are the same people who gave me six days of orientation on a surgical floor and then a full load of six my first day off on a surgery day.

I hated being a hospital nurse. I felt like an overworked waitress. And pts are really annoying. On one shift I had someone removing her own dressing - A&O - another needing dilaudid Q2, one undoing his IV to get into the tub every 1/2 hour and looking for his "fenergrin," another in for abd pain and didn't realize she was menstruating, another on comfort care and the family looking for VS every 5 minues (why'd you sign the cc?) - I hated it.

Do you need anything else? I have the time!

[KareBear0609]

Here is a good one - I actually walked out of the facility right then and there after being called to the office for the write-up.

A lady, about 95, was admitted to the nursing home. She was slightly confused, but I think it was mostly because she had previously been in an assisted living facility, fell, broke her hip, then came to us. Anyway, she put on her light because she had to go to the bathroom. Now, this is the first time I had her because she was new. I asked her if she wanted to walk to the bathroom or go by wheelchair and she told me that she wanted to use her walker. So, I tried to get her up using the gait belt. Nothing. Called for another CNA to help me, nothing. This lady was dead weight and she wasn't gunna be walking to be bathroom. So, me and the other CNA wheeled her to the bathroom and we were just going to pivot her on to the toliet. So, we get her on the toliet (took both of use with all of our strength), and she does her thing. When she was done, I started to tell her that what we are going to do (pivot transfer her back into the wheelchair), she interrupts me and tells me that she wants to wash her hands. I told her that is fine, but she will have to wait until after we get her in the wheelchair. She didn't like that, she wanted to use her walker to go to the sink. I told her there was no way we were going to be able to let her walk to the sink. I politely reminded her that she had a broken hip and wasn't stong enough to be able to walk yet. So, we get her into the wheelchair and I tell her that she can wash her hands now, and that I would wheel her up to the sink - get her the soap, paper towels, what ever she needed. She refused. So I offered her a warm soapy washcloth to wipe her hands off, she refused. I finally offered her a wet wipe to wipe her hands off, she refused. So I wheeled her back to her bedside, where she was before and went about my night.

I came in for my next shift, and was called to the office and presented with a write-up. It was for "failure to provide care" and "neglect". I was written up for not letting this lady wash her hands!!!!!!!! I was SO dumbfounded, I couldn't believe it. I walked out right then and there - I knew if they were going to write me up for a blatent lie - what else was I going to get in trouble for???

Oh BTW, she was a weekend admission so therapy hadn't evaluated her yet. She was evaluted and was ruled to be a SIT TO STAND!!!!!!!!

INSANE. Still to this day makes me very angry when I think about it.