I have posted many times regarding my position as a CNA in LTC. It has been an extremely negative one. To sum it up, I have watched CNA's be neglectful of residents, I have watched LPN's be verbally abusive and intimidating to their CNA's, I have watched RN's be all of those things to everyone.
Recently I went to my physician with my anxiety. Four months of this earned me daily panic attacks as well as non-stop loose bm's. He gave me a prescription and wrote me a dr note for work advising me not to return to work for the rest of the week
As always, the RN supervisor was very nasty about it. screamed at me about being short staffed, etc. I called later to make sure they knew I would be out and she hung up on me
Later that night I received phone calls from both my x-boyfriend and father who were furious with me for being out of work. THe person who does the scheduling called looking for me ....they are emergency #'s and my # was busy...and she told them the whole nine yards...about the dr's note..how long I would be out...and how they are dependant on me and I did not seem sick to the supervisor
I had to take my phone off the hook my father called so often..screaming at me that I was a "screw up" and I would "never make a nurse"
Did they have a right to tell this info to these people? I called the nurse back to tell her how her giving all this info to them generated a series of upsetting phone calls and she said 'that is not my problem..if it is so bad call the police" and hung up on me
