It's a small healthcare world after all!

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I am proud to be apart of the healthcare field. It is an international elite club. Nurses from all over the world can related to drama and the joy of being in the healthcare field. A healthcare worker may run into someone they worked with years ago in another state or country.

Please share if you got to work with a coworker in another state or country that you never thought you would see again.

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I did, twice. I worked in a super-duper ICU in another state for almost five years, then moved. One night working PRN in state 2 the evening supervisor showed up, and she was one of the nurses I worked with before. 
The other time was when I was a patient in state 2, and looking like crap c dirty hair and an IV pole, walking postop. Came around a corner and there was a woman I had worked with in that same ICU…. And  she was dressed to the nines in a business suit, because she had gone to law school and was working in the place where I had my surgery. We both kinda stared at each other in disbelief.

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Karma, karma, karma.

In the late 80's, I worked under the supervision of a passive-aggressive personality disordered manager. All other staff members were exceptional, I loved them, and love the memory of them to this day. However, the nurse manager was insidiously evil and eventually brought down the unit.

In the late 90's, this former nurse manager was hired to work with me at a community mental health clinic in outpatient. We were equals, but I knew the job and had seniority.

I do not believe in revenge, as it does nothing to elevate my self-esteem. When I've sought, and gained, revenge in the past, I never felt good about myself. So, even though I had negative feelings toward this former nurse manager, I threw no stones, I put no stumbling blocks in her path.

Even though I could have easily made her job miserable.

What happened, you may ask? Edgar Cayce said that we can get no one in more trouble than they can get themselves into, and so it was with this former nurse manager.

Several months later, she left a note, written in pencil, to our respective supervisor which read, "I quit".

The world moved in greased grooves.

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21 hours ago, DesiDani said:

I am proud to be apart of the healthcare field. It is an international elite club. Nurses from all over the world can related to drama and the joy of being in the healthcare field. A healthcare worker may run into someone they worked with years ago in another state or country.

Please share if you got to work with a coworker in another state or country that you never thought you would see again.

Good subject. So I actually about 6 weeks ago, worked side by side with a nurse who was my charge nurse in another clinic/area completely. She moved out of state (having  wound up quitting her charge nurse position) and began traveling. I never thought I would see her again--- It was pretty surprising seeing her there.

Glad we were on good terms! It is indeed a small world.

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When I was a teenager I had a pen-pal in Malaysia (remember them? Pen PALS! Hand-written letters!) As we got older our writing fizzled out as these things do, but  towards the end of our correspondance she was going to Kuala Lumpur to train as a nurse. Several years later I too had gone to train as a nurse in the south-west of England. One day I get chatting to a midwifery student in the canteen who tells me she's from Malaysia. Lo and behold she had done general nurse training with my pen-pal in KL and put us back in touch - all those thousands  of miles across the world. 

A girl I trained with in the south-west of England unwittingly followed me around. We bumped into each other in London working in the same CCU together. Several years after that I was a clinical nurse specialist based in another London hospital and I bump into her in the corridor, she's only followed me there as well and was working in the ICU. THEN another girl we trained with in the South West troops up at the same hospital as well, also as a CNS. 

Certainly is very small world.

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I honestly don't have any good stories that directly happened to me. But I know of some. My mother told me she worked with a nurse who was one of Diane Downs nurse when she was in the hospital for her gun shot wound (the one that she gave herself, but said she was attacked). The nurse told my mother that she didn't appear to be concerned about her kids in the same hospital and worried a lot about her appearance.  Another nurse had a patient who was a nurse with her back in the South. She got terminated for being found drugged out in her car on hospital property. She was at my hospital for drugs as well. Sad, I guess it is hard to kick a habit.

Nurses saved patients from certain harm when they found out that an "Angel of Mercy" nurse was about to be hired at their hospital. They all got together and told the admin that under no term should they hire this nurse.  Thank God they listened. The nurse was convicted of killing dozens of patients. I believe he is still in prison today.

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I found it from Wikipedia:

"In some cases, individual workers took it upon themselves to informally try to prevent Cullen from being hired, or to have him terminated. Some contacted nearby hospitals in secret, or quietly spoke to their own superiors, to alert them that they should not hire Cullen.[citation needed] When Cullen took a job at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown in June 2001, a nurse who had heard rumors about him at Easton Hospital advised her co-workers. They threatened to quit en masse if Cullen was not immediately dismissed, which he was"

 

You have to be a pretty awful nurse for staff to threaten to quit if they hire you.

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The story on Charles Cullen:

https://nypost.com/2013/04/14/how-nurse-caught-nations-deadliest-serial-killer-her-co-worker/

 

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That is how staff got fired for snooping in the Kardashians chart. Cerner shows the last person who access that chart. If you don't have that patient, then you have no business looking at a patients chart.

Glad admin listen, cause some places would of hired him despite the warnings.

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What's crazy is that the nurse in that article Amy could of easily been fired herself for harassment. She could have been told to MYOB and hearsay is not evidence. Can you say "I worked with that nurse in another state/country and they made a lot of mistakes". You don't want to appear that you are harassing someone. I don't know?

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