I am a Charge nurse on a 34 bed med/surg unit with remote tele. We also take pediatrics on our floor, and usually do not have that many. Sometimes one, on a shift then you wont have a ped for a couple months. The most we usually have is 3-4 peds at anyone given time, but usually less. It is our role as charge to be recorder. However recently I had asked the supervisor if she would make someone else recorder that night, as I did have a ped pt, he wasn't a little one, around 9-10yrs, however he and mom were heavy sleepers, and each time I'd go in to check his IV, he would be all wrapped up in it. So based on that I just asked if someone else could be recorder. The supervisor response was to call me aside and tell me that I always complain about the code team. I realized after that conversation, it is because everyone else just changes it, without asking.. I did talk to my director, and she was going to talk to our CNO. Then last week, I was sitting at a desk, doing the assignment for our shift, when this supervisor is walking towards me. She gets within 2 feet of me a flings the staffing across the desk at me. I asked her "what was that all about" her response was " I think you know what that's about" she then walked back around me, and stopped I asked her "did I deserve that", and she said "no". she then walked out side for about a few minutes then came back in a relieved the tele tech for a break. I am still trying to get the assignment finished, when she says " I am right in assuming that you will be taking the ped" I looked down at the census, and it had not yet been entered into the system from the ER. so I looked up and said " oh I did not even know we had a ped, but yes I'll take the ped. she then starts to say something else, and the day charge starts to say " (calls her by name) were you going to say something. she starts to say then stops, so now I stop what I am doing and ask if she was talking to me, she states well I am trying but cant talk to the back of your head. I just let it go, and went to see the night supervisor, after she left, I told her I wanted to write her up for throwing that paper in my face when she was less than 2 ft from me. The night supervisor tells me she is not going to take sides, I told her that it is wrong to have someone who is supposed to be a supervisor throw things in your face, And that I did not want anyone to take sides, I am just stating the facts, so she tells me, well you guys need to talk to the cno and get this sorted out. I told her I would and that I had witnesses. she tells me well if you have witnesses, than to talk to the cno. about 2130 I get a call from the supervisor that went home, smell something fishy yet, anyway she said, yeah I called (called night supervisor by name) and she told me you were really upset, I told her yes I was, she goes on to tell me "that I would be the last person she would want to upset" whatever that means, and that she had a really bad day with a patient family member and keeps calling him by his first name, like I know who that is. I told her I don't even know who this person is, but that still does not give you a right to throw the staffing in my face. she proceeds to tell me that when she went outside, after she did that, that she just went out and said f*@. she then said "I just wanted to hit the wall or something" I did not know what to say at that point. so jokingly said " I hope it wasn't me". I dont know why she called, I do not think a true apology, due to the fact, she called or maybe was called by the supervisor, because I have witnesses, to what she did and what she said and how she was acting. This supervisor told the other supervisor that I had taken what she did out of context, but with her statements, how else could it be taken, not to say she disrespected me by throwing that at me. Now I have to call my director today to tell her, so we can have some kind of meeting, to get to the bottom of this behavior. I had not seen, called or talked to this supervisor on the night that this happened she just came up. But the paper she threw at me had my name scratched off of recorder, and had another nurse, because there was a late ped admit. I take full pt load and I am charge also. just would like some thoughts..........
