HopeOnTheRocks

Once, when I was brand new to a very small facility, I had become fast friends with a male coworker... His mother was in an upper management position. Now, I am a HAPPILY married woman, and I speak highly of my husband always. However, simply because we were nice to each other, and helped each other out on the floor, I was accused of adultery and fraternization -- with him, at work. (The rumor going around was that we were caught kissing in a patient's room, and my truck.) Obviously this was crazy and untrue, but it spread like wildfire. Everyone would stop talking the second I walked into a room. People from other departments would point and whisper about me. Things got so bad, he and I started referring to work drama as "Garcia's Anatomy". (...like Grey's Anatomy). His mom wound up terminating me, without cause. My husband found all of this hilarious, by the way.

I am currently a CNA (I'm studying for my RN, and needed a job to get myself through college) in a LTC. Today there were rumors of state (California) coming in tomorrow at some point. I am not working tomorrow, however tonight, after an extremely hectic shift, I realized I forgot to chart ADLs for one of my patients. This patient (We'll call her Mrs. X for now.) is not technically on my unit, however, after a patient requested not to have me as her CNA, I traded a coworker, and took on Mrs. X for my assignment. I guess my question is, at 1:00am (my shift ended at 11:00pm), should I be considering going back to fix it? Is this an offense my facility will be severely fined for, and will I be fired? My facility is under new management, and I have worked here for a month, meaning I am still on probation. I am really nervous and am losing sleep over this... what should I do?

I can completely relate. I have been a CNA for over a year now. That being said, I've had THREE different jobs... The first one, I was employed for not even 3 months. I WAS a little slow, this being my first job, and I elected to be on evening and NOC shift so I could start to get the feel of things. My first day there, I got a taste of the bad politics and turnover rate when my assigned trainer (We'll call him "Josh") refused to train me. Josh told me that it was pretty much pointless to train me because the facility is CONSTANTLY training new people and they don't keep them more than a month. What I didn't realize, was that they can fire you if a coworker makes ANY negative statement about you. This can be anything from not answering a call light in a timely manner, to them not liking you as a person. My supervisor was an LVN (We'll call her Sheryl). From the minute I was on the unit, she was a bully. Sheryl was significantly overweight, and I have been extremely underweight all my life. She required herself of someone else to watch me do all my transfers because "I am too small and weak, and I am an accident waiting to happen." To this day, I have NEVER let ANYONE fall. Throughout the night, the rude comments continued from Sheryl, Josh, and others. I answered a call light where an otherwise healthy resident told me he was feeling dizzy and having chest pains. For obvious reasons, I took this seriously. When I went to tell Sheryl, she told me that I was "NEVER to talk to her during her med-pass." False accusations causing my termination (within 90 days) were made about how I "left a resident soaking wet in bed the entire night", "transferred without a gait belt" "Used a restraint and was rough on a resident" (I held her hand down while I was changing her brief because the night before she had literally given me a black eye).