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My friend believes that her recent complaints about scheduling made the decision to get rid of her easier, but she had never had any warnings or issues at all. I just think in this day of massive unemployment and terrible economic woes, you don;t fire a mother of 3 year old twins on her first error.

Holy cow there are a lot of you nurses and with a lot to say! This is really cool of you to all reply. So from what I gather, The RN went to the room to give her the cough PILL. (never heard of a cough pill, but oh well) My friend the RT was giving a RT treatment at the time. The RN said here, give this to her when you are done. Then when she went out to the nurses desk, someone asked, did you give her her medicine already and she replied, I gave it to 'my friend' to give to her after her treatment. All went downhill from there.

Thank you for the response. It seems so harsh to me, but I would think if such a clear policy was needed and thus implemented, employees would know about it. If she was indeed supposed to say no, then as a professional she should have known. I could definitely see the RN being reprimanded, but the foot soldier in this case should have been educated not executed.

I am a friend of a really intelligent and caring respiratory therapist who was recently fired from XXXXX Hospital in YYYYYY because she handed cough medicine to a patient when the attending RN handed it to her and asked her to do so. Should my friend have told the RN, no? Is this a fireable offense? It makes me upset as she has twin boys to raise and works her tail off for something a layman like myself would consider petty and vindictive. I want to help her, but because we live in hyper-conservative Texas, workers have no rights.