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Its amazing to me that you all have so much advice to offer and I do truly appreciate it. When you feel victimized in a situation you react however your emotions guide you. I was taken aback by some of your responses because I think some may have misunderstood my intenetions. I do however agree that this nurse was trying to cover my ass but I don't ever remember asking her to. Why a phone call wasn't initiated is something I will never understand. Yes the shift report is not a legal document but why would someone just consciouslly write down someone elses name. I am the vicitim here and I am in no way a DRAMA queen. I do my job to the best of my ability and go home at the end of the day knowing I have done my job.When something like this comes up in my life I do look at all the possible scenarios and try to put myself in that person's shoes. You know what if she came in the next morning and said oh by the way I signed your name I would have told her how that made me feel and hope that it would never happen again. I was not afforded that opportunity ever. I maybe could have ignored the whole situation but that didn't happen. How can I ever trust this nurse to have my back again. How does one just do something like that and not know that it was wrong. That baffles me. I live my life with integrity and honesty every single day. Obviously she does not. It is always easy for people to say what they would do but every person is an individual and some people are cold hearted and could just be a ***** and move on from this. I take my life, job very seriously and this is not something that I had coming to me in retaliation for something else. I walked in to work and this is what I found. I honestly don't think I am overreacting as some of you said. Emotionally my life is in turmoil over this. Maybe some find that hard to believe but that is how I reacted and this is where I stand. I think this whole situation could have easily been avoided if she just took into consideration my feelings and really thought about what she was about to do. Now that I have had time to calm down and really look at it closer I still feel that I would do everything again the same way. I can only hope that she will not make the same mistake again but I choose not to have to work with this woman. You think I am wrong there too. Why should I have to encounter this for the rest of my career? Once again I did nothing wrong ,she did.This has been a learning experience for all involved. I just want to continue the work that I so love and just be left alone to fend for myself. Please don't get me wrong I have my fellow nurses back as well but there is a fine line and I think that she crossed it. You all have been in the situation where you count off the narcs with the oncoming nurse, how would you feel that some one can just take it upon themselves and just try and remove the keys from around your neck without that persons consent. Once again she could have gone about it in a better way and all would still be working at a place they all love. But once again I wasn't allowed to make that call.

Thanks for the varying opinions I do appreciate all comments and I am not offened in anyone's response. I really do need to make an important decision and the feedback is great

Hi everyone I have a question that I need opinions on I work in a LTC facility third shift. I went into work the other night and when I looked at the previous nights 24 shift report I saw that someone a co-worker had signed my name to the report. She explained to another co-worker that she did it so I wouldn't get into trouble. Now when I saw this it made me furious that she had the audacity to do something like this. It was an error on my part that I had forgotten to sign it I understand but what gives her this right. Forgery is not something I take lightly. Anyway the next morning I called the DNS to explain the situation. I also told her that if this employee was allowed to stay on here and continue working that I would ask that I be moved to a different wing while I looked for another job. If the company we work for would allow this because of my principals I couldn't work for them. Well yesterday I had a meeting wth the ADNS and the DNS and told them the same thing. They are allowing this nurse to continue to be employed basically with a slap on the wrist. I requested I be moved and they denied it saying we are all very strong team and moving would not solve anything. They also said that this nurse would like to apologize and we all should move on and forget this ever happened. To make matters worse that same nurse came up from behind me and tried to remove the med cart keys and narc keys from around my neck. I immediately grabbed the keys and said wait a minute I will be with you when I am done counting with another nurse. Well right now I am contemplating leaving and finding a company that would beck me up and not force me to do what I don't want to do. I know this woman didn't do this in a maliciuos way but I think what she did she be reprimanded. Wha would you do? Please help oh by the way I love the patients very dearly and am having a difficult time making the right decision:angryfire