swon1223

Hello everyone. Just wanted to give a quick update. After working one shift on Wednesday my girlfriend showed up on her regular shift on Thursday and was asked by her manager to accompany her to hr where she was summarily terminated. She did fall asleep while on shift and we expected that this may ultimately be an outcome, but I'm not sure why if the hospital thought she was a liability they would allow her to work a full shift and then do this to her. Additionally they opted to report the incident to the board of nursing which seems drastic for a first offense. Is this normal procedure? Does anyone know how this may ultimately affect her ability to find another job or even to renew her cna license? The conduct and behavior of both her manager and hr at the hospital were unprofessional to say the least. If she was to be terminated then fine, that should have been it. In the last few months there had been a half dozen or so instances of thefts against staff members, my girlfriend being one of victims. Being that she was in the float pool and working so many overtime shifts she was on the same floor as half of the thefts when they occurred they then proceeded to question her about the thefts as well. They kept her in a confined room for 4 hours by security, hr and her manager while interrogating her and not mirandizing or offering her any legal counsel or allowing her to leave after just being terminated. She denied any wrong doing and asked to leave repeatedly but was not allowed to. She is on both anti depressants as well anti anxiety medication and was not allowed to leave until she wrote a statement that they wanted about the accusations. Under the stress she broke down. I have half a mind to file a lawsuit against this hospital because no employee should ever be treated in this fashion. What they did to her amounted to a witch hunt for which she was not prepared to face given the circumstances of having just been terminated. Her manager who had just written such a glowing recommendation about her job performance had the nerve to say that she was sorry she ever trusted my girlfriend and hired her in the first place. I am sympathetic to any of you who have ever worked under similar management and have a greater respect for the good nurses and health aides out there than ever before. People deserve some compassion in life, not to be treated like this. For those of you who were supportive thank you. To those of you who were not, I pray that you never err and find yourself in similar shoes.

Thanks for all the insight everyone. It seems like she's in the clear for the moment but yeah she definately overdid it. She is one of the few aides there willing to pick up extra time so they had her scheduled for her 3 normal 12 hour shifts and on call for 4 more (and she was called in for all of them). She has a really hard time saying no being somewhat new and wanting to impress her manager. Hopefully this is a wake up call for her that she needs to say no sometimes.

Yeah, she was fortunate that she didn't get a suspension. She was told that she would not be allowed overtime for a while untill she proved herself capable of handling it. However she was not taken off the schedule and was allowed to continue her 36 hours of regular schedule next week. I think that would indicate that most likely she wont be terminated, correct, since usually it would happen immediately? And she works in a level 1 trauma hospital.

Hi everyone, I'm actually posting this on behalf of my girlfriend who is a aide who was newly off her probationary 90-day period. She had just come off a week of 12 hour shifts and had one final shift to finish off when she dozed off while watching a sleeping patient. Her performance evaluation which had just occured was exemplary and her manager had recommended her for a high tier raise and then this incident occured. She was written up and is worried that the HR will terminate her immediately. It sounds like the manager is willing to give her another chance but she is terrified that HR will just terminate her. Will HR normally terminate on a first write up under these circumstances? Or will the managers input and her prior performance also be taken into account? Thanks so much!