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thank you so much for your post. I am in the process of talking to an employment law attorney now. I'm glad you won everything they owed you and not surprised they have taken over 4 months to pay you back. It helps alot knowing I am not the only one who has ever gone through this. Really appreciate your comments and I will move on to better pastures :-)

Thanks for your post. You're right, management has twisted alot of my words in order to support their actions, that's why I'm in this boat. I have not rec'd my letter of no-reinstatement yuet but I fully expect a no-reinstatement decision. I am in the beginning stages of getting legal advice now, and am advised that my scenario is not that uncommon these days, unfortunately. I wonder if other nurses fight back, as I am, not to get their job back but as a matter of principle. As far as your last comment, when I was asked to start a difficult IV for example, I would have that nurse do a favor for me as well, so that I could also get out on time, and I rec'd many written commendations from peers for this help. I did and DO take care of myself. BTW, I don't miss that place AT ALL. Enjoying this time off with my family and already have job prospects thru friends that quit working at this place years ago (bc of management). For now, taking time off, taking it one day at a time.

ShillaBSN, With all due respect, like I said, I have overwhelming evidence that this management discriminates, plays favorites, targets, abuses her power, and is RETALIATING. HR is IGNORING the facts. I predicted this manager would find a way to fire me, went to HR for help, and now she has fired me. Of course there were a few RN's that did not like me, that's just the nature of a female dominated profession, and typically they are RN's who are lazy or knew I did not respect their work ethic, playing on their phones at the RN station while their call lights were going off or sitting in the breakroom all day, complaining about having to give "so-n-so pain meds again". But for the most part I worked with some great hardworking RN's. The floor IS as horrible as I say, my coworkers were all afraid to go to HR to complain with me, now I know why. HR, this HR anyway, is twisting the facts and siding with the management. I guess they will get away with this as long as RN's are afraid to complain for fear of losing their jobs. BTW, I am that rare breed of nurse who makes time to hold my patients hand if really needed AND get the non-patient care stuff done too. And my manager knows it, shame on her.

thank you. It means so much to me to know there are good honest people out there who understand what I am going through. I am waiting to hear back from several nurse attorneys. I will post updates. I really want to be able to voluntarily resign after getting reinstated because this facility really does not deserve a good nurse like me. I am looking forward to working somewhere new. Thanks again :-)

Thank you, keepItRealRN ....I have decided yes, I will get an attorney. Tomorrow. Thanks again, I'll come back and update. In the meantime, I am so much less stressed about not being there...it takes so much energy fighting for a job I haven't been happy doing (bc of the management). Really sad.

jadelpn, I agree with EVERY point you made..I have considered my higher pay as a reason she also went after me...she knows I know what's been going on and she looks at me as a threat. You're also right that they could not find anything worthy of writeups on me so she "found" things. And HR is just there to protect her. It IS a sad time. They don't really care about the patient or staff, it's just numbers. Thanks for your post, I appreciate it.

Hi. ANY advice is appreciated here. I am a 15 year veteran RN who just got terminated for something so trivial I am embarrassed to post it here. It has nothing to do with patient care. I have never made a med error, never received a patient or family complaint, in fact I get commendations almost daily with many "You are the best nurse I have ever had." I LOVE my job and I think it shows. I work well with and am well respected by my peers, CNA's, physicians I work with, and other staff and am friendly with everyone from the Attendings to housekeepers. I have worked several units, but this last one I have witnessed the worst favoritism, discrimination, and no support from management than any other unit I have worked. My coworkers are hardworking (some bad apples, like every unit) and we have come to work well together as a team for the most part bc management does not support us, unless of course we are this manager's "pets" and do favors for her. Things started to get really bad and my vacation requests would not get approved when others with much less seniority got approved, and I started to complain. Things got even worse and I started getting written up for trivial things, having NOTHING to do with patient care. I had never been written up before. I went to HR and filed complaints. HR of course "found no merit" to my complaints, even though many of my coworkers confided to me and complained about the same things for years, even before I transferred to this unit. Out of fear of losing their jobs they would not complain to HR. Of course I tried to transfer but the writeups prevented them. My biggest fear was that this manager would retaliate and try to fire me because of the complaints I filed. I tried to tell HR this. But my prediction came true and this manager found another trivial write up that she used to terminate me bc I was on final warning from the last 2 trivial write ups. trust me the write ups have nothing to do with my performance as a nurse, they were for things all nurses forget to do once in a while such as forgetting to do a valuables checklist when transferring a patient from one room to another---writeups no one else was getting written up for. So now that this manager term'd me, she is bragging about it, my coworkers are scared to death themselves of getting fired, and they are upset that this happened to me. I was a nurse who helped everyone, even when I was busy, even if I knew that nurse talked behind my back if she needed an IV for her hard stick patient, i would do the IV for the good of the patient. I am appealing the termination to get re-instated, even though I was so stressed there for the longest time. always afraid of getting written up, and fired. Even though I have overwhelming evidence that this manager is retaliating, HR seems to be siding with her. I am thinking of filing charges with EEOC. Is there anything else I can do, anyone else I can contact, would writing a letter to MAGNET or the CEO of my hospital help? I am in step one of the appeal process, but I do not feel anyone is on my side. I plan to go on to step two and all the way to step three of the appeals process just to be heard, I am not naive enough to think I will get my job back although I'd love to be reinstated just to quit. No matter what proof I provide HR twists it, and I don't see how they will reinstate me bc this would undermine this manager and her boss' decision. I don't even want the job back to be honest, it is a sad unit with management that truly does not value their employees. I feel bad for my coworkers stuck there. Does anyone have any advice? I agree with an earlier post I read somewhere, "the truth gets a good nurse in trouble". Administration is not interested in the truth. Thanks for any advice.

sounds like we work at the same place, lol we have those venting meetings with NO CHANGES..I used to speak up on behalf of my unit, it never helped, so I just keep quiet now.. I am meeting w HR tomorrow, I don't have time to bring anyone with me at this point :-( I will be calm, polite, factual, non accusatory, etc...I know they side with the management, I know how it works, ut I need to be proactive and do SOMETHING. thanks :-)

I don't understand why I need a witness? what good is employee relations/HR if I need a witness?

thank you, I will try to remember this...I hope I can transfer to another dept, I have been trying to for a very long time.

Hi. I would like some advice please. I am a veteran RN here at this hospital, at the end of my rope with the problems on my unit. I have tried to get off this floor for years and am thwarted each time with a bogus write up. I have gone to upper management but nothing ever changes, they side with the manager (even though everyone knows the management is bad on my floor, one manager just left, ppl think she was forced out) There is rampant favoritism on this unit..with assignments, vacations, double standards on policy enforcement. I've had enough!!!!! So, I am going to HR, mostly to protect myself form further bogus writeups that may get me fired. I believe this management would love t fire me bc they know I see what's going on. MANY of my peers have the same complaints but are afraid to say anything. I've been at this hospital for over 13 yrs, different units, but this is the worst. I have never been written up before this unit, I am not a troublemaker, I am a great nurse as evidenced by my patient satisfaction feedback. Please please advise, how can I be most effective with my meeting with HR? Thanks so much!!