I've been an RN for almost 2 years. I worked at a SNF, outpatient and mental health and am now working in corrections. I am feeling hopeless and angry about my current job. I have only been working at my current place for less than a month. I've been on the clinic floor for around 3 weeks. I have been harassed and yelled at and accussed of all sorts of things (ill get into it). There is a nurse who from the very beginning- ill call her Sam, who has found every opportunity to criticize me. At one point she pulled me aside and accused me of not working as hard as everyone else. Tonight she accussed me of signing off meds I did not pass. I don't think this is true. I passed meds last night to three floors with over 500 people. I don't believe I signed off anything that I didn't give. I do knownthere were people I didn't have time to pass to, and night shift helped me because it was past the time it was for me to go home. She has accussed me of having an attitude- honestly, after the convo with her telling me I wasnt working, I have developed an attitude towards her. Im angry. I work hard. And im being accused of not doing my job. This is in all light of her telling me tonight that she would not put away meds that belonged to her cart, and then also remarking in the beginingnof the shift that she was not going to do any other "RN" duties because she was passing meds and that was lpn work. I heard this woman say today that she was going to find all the med errors everyone made and then relishing in it when she found them. I didn't see the med errors....no idea if those existed or not.
The charge nurse (shes a traveler) started out being really helpful, but then after the run in with Sam, has been super cold and has refused to help me learn to do anything related to my job. A week ago she set me up with like 3 different tasks and then told me at 7pm that I was passing meds. I had no time to go through the cart, to see if I had all the meds and if anything was organized at all. It was a mess. When I got back to the clinic and asked her why she told me so late, she said it wasnt her responsibility to tell me who was doing meds.... I wasnt scheduled for meds that night, Sam was. She yelled at me and then told me to figure out the tasks I had started. I was so overwhelmed when I left, I left some charts out, a piece of paper, some paper clips etc. Completely unintentional. The next day she screamed at me that she was not my mother, and no one heres your mother and no one is going to pick up after me. She then claimed I did it on purpose.
Im so down. I want to be in a situation where I work hard and people don't harrass me, where my coworkers don't berate me and humiliate.
Do I need a new job? Im thinking about quitting. I don't know how much more my mental health can take.
