tybutler74

thank you all so much! I went to the meeting and it went very well. It became very clear to those investigating what truely happened. Thanks everyone

I was coming off a shift and I counted narcs w/ oncoming nurse. I counted the meds, and she read the sheets. Our count was good, she signed and took the keys. About 5 hours into her shift a narc came up missing- now she is trying to blame me, and they said something about the count was invalid b/cauz i was the offgoing nurse. What???? I am a new nurse and nothing was ever said about who counts what when, and I don't remember anything about it from school. Also, she is a vetran nurse and she should have said something to me if I was doing it wrong---??/ Obviously, I am a newbie, my first job.

Thank you all for your responces..I am never oriented to any facility I go to, it's pretty much wing it once you get there. I am so angry about this!!! Also, the med was not reported missing until 10 pm, and I had worked from 6a-6p that day...the med was found missing 4 HOURS AFTER I LEFT THE BUILDING!! This is so absurd that I even have to go to this damn meeting tomorrow, and I will not be compensated for my time. (i.e., not paid!!!) I also let the agency I work for let me know that I felt that my job should be behind me, and stand up for me. I need to find a regular job!! I love working for the agency but agency nurses get dumped on always. I never realized how much bs comes with being a nurse!!! Hope I can hack it, cauz this is enough to drive anyone crazy!@! I feel my reputation is on the line all the time. How do you handle the pressure? P.S. I am going to take a recorder with me to the meeting so I have a record of all that is said so that if I need to, I can hire an attorney and have proof of all that was said.

I am a new LPN @ 5 months working for an agency (did home care for 1 year before the agency)- I worked last Friday and I had 2 carts, both with narcs- I counted off each cart w/ a different nurse and they both accepted the count and signed and took the keys. Well, when one of the nurses was getting off and counted w/ the next nurse, there was a narc missing. She told the office that I was in a big hurry to leave work Friday, and that I shoved the narc book in her hand and I counted the cards. She is trying to imply that I was acting shady and took this med and tried to speed up the narc count so she wouldn't notice. Now they are trying to say my narc count was invalid because I should have counted the sheets and the oncoming nurse should have counted the meds. I go out of my way to be extra polite to other nurses because 1) I am a new nurse and respect those w/ more experience than me and 2) I am a visitor in their facility, they know the policies and regulations better than me. I always ask the oncoming nurse "Do you want the book or the cart?" because I didn't know it had to be counted a certain way, because to me, each nurse should look at both the book and the pills to ensure a correct count. I am ESPICALLY careful w my narcs because I am agency, and I know how easy it is for nurses to blame the agency nurse for mistakes. I have a meeting at 10 am tomorrow @ this. I am livid. Does it matter who counts what? And isn't this out of my hands because she accepted the count? Also is this slanderous? I can prove that I wasn't rushing out of there. After I handed both keys over I went to the central station because the oncoming nurse needed a med that was kept in central supply. I picked it up for her and dropped it off to her to help her out. This is not the med in question, it was a med that was in our cart. But this proves I was in no hurry to leave! Plus, I believe I placed a call to my home from the nurses station so if it comes to it and I have to hire an attorney I can hopefully get phone records pulled proving I was there about for about 15 min after I was off the cart. Please, any advice would be great.