smarkland

As a nurse of 43 years who has seen just about every situation, I applaude you for standing firm and refusing the unsafe assignmnet. The other comments here are right. You cannot be accused of abandonment when it wasn't your original assignment and when they tried to give it to you, you refused. Additionally, your place of employment is not going to turn you in for anything because believe me, they do not want to admit that they are demanding unsafe assignments from their staff. Sounds like the local Medicare office should know about the unsafe practices at your LTC facilty. Think twice befor you quit though. You will go to your next LTC facility and find the same problems. They are all alike. Understaffed and underpaid. Passionate nurses like yourself can take steps to change that. Congratulations on being a passionate, caring, and safe nurse!

I am proud of you for hanging in there and doing what had to be done, your job even when you were so worried for your own. Welcome to nursing!! Sara Markland RN, Kaplan NCLEX Faculty, Houston, Tx., 1970 grad of Norfolk Senior High, Norfolk , Ne where my Mother and oldest son and his family live. God's blessings to all of you in Northeast Nebraska! GO BIG RED