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I feel report is very important!! I have had a few bad reports and it caused all kinds of problems. jmo

Do you think that your LPN schooling/experience helped you in RN school or did it really not matter? I'm almost finished with my pre-reqs and am trying to prepare myself for what to expect

I confronted her last monday and ended up more upset then when I went in there. I went to the administrator today and vented to her for 1 1/2 hours. She seemed like she would be fair and she said that she would talk to the DON and try to make things better. I don't know if I did more harm than good.

I'm convinced that my DON is trying to make me quit. She has done so many outrageous things that I can't even list them all. I have thought about leaving but other than her I love my job and she tells everyone that she will retire in 4 years. What do you do when a manager is out to get you?

after this incident I found out that the outlets in the building are very old and loose. According to the cna's this happens "all the time" and they just plug the things back in. An incident report was filled out and the md and family was notified. The main reason she was so mad was because state was due to arrive any day. The woman ended up dying about a week later ( from totally unrelated problems - she has been bad for a long time ) and my nurse manager actually told me when she died "well, now at least we don't have to worry about state reading her chart" with a great big smile on her face. I was so angry!!!! :angryfire The chart was filed away before the state arrived. This all happened about 6 weeks ago. The whole raise meeting was on monday. I just can't forget about this! It goes against all of my morals! They called me into the office and handed me the chart and said "now you will make an addition to your note and you will write what we tell you to write" This DON has no morals whatsoever!:angryfire

As I was reporting off the the next nurse at 10 pm the cna's told me they needed me in a room asap. An air mattress had somehow become unplugged and had deflated and the resident had fallen down under the mattress and it was over her head. When they found her she was cyanotic and I had my doubts if she would pull through. We put her on O2 and she pulled through ok. when I left she was back to baseline. Here is my problem. I was called into the DON's office a couple of days later and counseled and they really came down on me for making a nurses note about the situation. The DON said that I should've called her at home and asked her if she wanted that documented or not. The counseling is for not calling her. She said that it looks really bad and that a "seasoned nurse would've known not to write something like that". I don't understand how you can not document something so serious. Since then they are on my case really bad for a lot of stupid things and the company just offered a raise for all nurses and they upped the shift differential for afternoon shift. She called my into her office on monday and said that she is with-holding both raises from me because of this counseling. what would you have done in the situation?