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She has few days left from her 2 week notice. She's ready to move on, but currently concerned about her license. Charge nurse and clique are not being supportive, and she just wants to complete without any slipups. She's already interviewing with other positions at other hospitals. She has few co-workers she can use as a reference. Not so sure about the charge nurse. Can an educator be used ? And whats ironic, while all this b.s. is going on, her educator (who's unaware of the situation) was assigning wife for additional complex training. Saying she know's wife is capable of doing it. She's received 20 Daisy awards since joining ICU in past 6months, and educator wants her to take on more duties. How is she incompetent then?

She hasn't done anything wrong, because nothing has been officially reported of any wrong doing. From day 1 she had a bad experience. Her preceptor was a straight bully. Degrading her, not answering questions, gossiping with other nurses about her. It wasn't until few other nurses that she got along with, told her of what was happening. She sent an email to her manager of the bullying, and nothing was done. Few SR nurses and the manager had a meeting and wife's name came up, along with the preceptor. Her orientation was during day shifts, and once done she went back to night shifts. Never having to work in the same shift with her preceptor. The director, manager, preceptor, and charge nurse are BFFs outside of work. She just finshed her 6 or 7 months, and she was brought into the directors office along with her manager. And the director was just going off on her. She's incompetent, the director is not there to be her mother to handle these quarrels, and that wife needs to transfer herself out of ICU. So she knew its done for her here. And she knew trying to transfer back to Med/Surg would also be unlikely, since the director there and her current director are also BFF. When she reached out to her MedSurg director, she said "I don't know whats going, I don't know who to trust". Means the ICU director had already contacted MedSurg, knowing that would be the first place she would go back or she just likes to talk about others business. So while this was going on, wife was going to work for her scheduled shifts. And then director sends an email, stating this is her final warning to transfer out. She tried reaching out to other hospital branch, and they said if she received a final warning email, it's going to be hard to transfer herself. Something bout it's going to block her from transferring. So all this nonsense is clear that a group of staff are playing politics. Abusing their power, being biased, somewhat racist, and playing favoritism. Obviously no one would want to try and stay in that toxic env. But is there anything she can do? As of today (9/5) she has already put in her 2 weeks, and has 3 days next week for her shifts. But she's mostly concerned that this group will try to get her to slip up, potentially something that can put her license at risk. Just the other night her charge nurse assigned her 2 very critical patients that required constant attention, but kicker was that they were completely on opposite sides of the floor. So whole night she's running back and forth, did not take a lunch break, in fear they would blame her for something, constantly questioning her thru out the night if she checked this or that, notifying her of patients stats (even though she was aware and was on top of it). She stayed professional and thanked them for bringing it to her attention. Did you take any action? Or report what was done to you?

Her ICU manager gave her a final warning to transfer to a different floor, so she tried going back to MedSurg, but that Manager says she doesn't have anything available, and both managers talked to each other so she won't take her for that reason to. Her ICU manager is trying to collect reasons to put against her. My wife even tried a different hospital, but they said if her ICU Mgr is giving final warning then they can also block her from transferring. So right now it's like a lose lose for her. She's being forced to transfer, but can't transfer fast enough, and can't stay in ICU either, or it looks like she will get fired. She spoke with HR briefly and they said she would need to escalate this. But she's not sure what to do. Fearing retaliation, or burning all possible bridges

Asking for wife. Her manager is forcing her to resign. She's unable to transfer to her old dept (b/c the manager there is besties with her current manager). But her manager is creating false claims: she's incompetent, rude, and that she's not there to resolve quarrels. Texas is a At-Will state, but is there anything she can do, perhaps legally?

Hi all, asking on behalf of my wife. My wife is a RN in Med/Surg and started working earlier this year. She works the night shifts. She was very excited when she started because she took a long break (moving to the US, married-kids life, etc.) She first dealt with anything that was given to her openly. She was ready to take on any challenge, and prove to herself she can still be a good nurse. But as of late, she has notice how some of the assignments are given out. She feels she is given the hard cases, and she's not alone. Even her co-workers have said it out loud that how you getting these difficult cases. Luckily her staff is very helpful. But the morning Charge Nurses who give out the assignment seem to have it out for her. But she noticed it's not just her but other minorities (especially those of the Asian decent). She's seen few have felt they were being bullied, cried at times, and in the end quit and left. She has other Asian co-workers who have been at the hospital for a long time, and they said "ya thats how it is here, not much you can do". She want's to talk to her Manager (who may understand her side). But the so-called Charge Nurses seem to play favoritisms with their friend in real life, giving them easier assignments, seem to mostly sit around, and give a hard time to the minorities. She said she'll talk to her Manager first (she has already thought about transferring to another hospital - not final yet). I suggested she take this to HR as well. She went from excited and enjoying her work to being completely burnt out.