March28

I was recently terminated. I only have a year of experience at a skilled nursing facility and I was let go. I feel like I was professional at work, I always came in on time, did accurate charting and so forth. The only thing that was lacking was teamwork, but not from me. I was always helpful and being a CNA we work as a team. The senerio: I was in a resident's room and I had them on a high bed changing their brief, It was about 5min before dinner and their family member was also in the room waiting on me to change and get the patient in their wheel chair. As I looked for a brief quickly inside their nightstand, I couldn't find one. So on a walkie, I called on of my CNA peer to bring me briefs. One CNA replied "YOU NEED TO BRING IN YOU'RE OWN SUPPLIES AND WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF YOU, YOU'RE SLOW, YOU NEED TO HURRY UP, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ECT... Then another CNA replied, "Yes I will be there to help you." After me and the CNA got the patient into her wheelchair for her family, I was shooken up that one of my colleagues would be so calloused saying things about my work performance. That I did call the DON and confessed that her team work ethics are bad, and that she has been bullying me prior to that. I also had said that I believe the CNA may be doing stuff, that may have made her aggressive at work. Sigh* I had seen her smoke "stuff" before (This is True I have, I just never had the nerve to say anything until the bullying got severe) The DON said they would arrange for a meeting tomorrow before work. I said okay and went back to work. Now I did tell another close CNA what had happened because she asked. I said I finally said something and I'm tired of being bullied. The next day I went to work, I was called in along with that CNA that I told on. But in return I was suspended, and then terminated. I was told that I "Slandered" against her. I'm just really upset about the whole situation, and it's difficult very difficult to get a CNA job. That was my first CNA job for a year I worked over there and I have no good references over there. Is there anything I can do or say during an interview. The last two interviews I had I was honest with telling them why I was fired, but I was felt like I was looked at as a snitch or not a good team mate.