AmberAmazes

I am not sure what kind of surgery you think I am pursuing

If you think that I am having problems with my whole healthcare team then I am beginning to understand the problems you are having with reading comprehension. I'm going to try to put this into terms you can understand. I do not care how you feel about my interactions with JBN. The fact that is all you are referring to in the 3 different you made on this thread tells me that you you are privy with organized or well thought communications which makes what you have to say or think about me even less significant.

I find it amusing that you and ohiosicuurn are saying this of all people, judging from your posts both of you sound like absolute horrors to have to work around or work with in any capacity and seem to demonstrate a shocking lack of common sense, understanding, and intelligence. Here you are adding absolutely nothing to the discussion AND trying to attack my character while you attempt to insult me character over the Internet. Yes dears you appear to be great people

In the beginning of the visit Sam stated that is uncommon for her to ever not recommend more visits with her patients, so that may have been a factor but I am not really sure. I do not think I used the term bullying with the nurse supervisor.

You deal with your social interactions the way you feel is most appropriate and I will do the same. I am uninterested in making this thread a pity party for JBN and I do not feel I was wrong in anything I've said here. If anyone else would like to come looking for apologies on JBN's behalf, beware that you will not find them.

I had a professor for my first year bio class that was new to teaching and did speak english well. For that class, given his situation, my college bought extra learning materials to make it a little easier on students and him. For example, my college was not fond of buying class presentations, but for him they would make an exception and they also had other people from the science department to come and teach us lessons that he would have trouble pronouncing or explaining. Maybe your college would be willing to do something like that if you inquired about it?

I like to paint and explore nearby areas, especially museums and specialty shops.

I'm sorry you feel that way. If it makes you feel any better I suggested the classes because they truly are enjoyable and enlightening.

JBN also got snarky but I don't see you addressing any of that. My posts merely mirrored hers.

Who is GrnTea? I am not riled up or angry in the slightest. Again please refer to comments and read to comprehend. JBN and I disagreed on some points and I took no issue with that. As for how understanding psychology and human communication affects how you perceive human interaction and give advice, I'm going to leave that up to you to figure out if you ever have the pleasure of getting that training.

I thanked JustBeachyNurse for replying, What more are you expecting? You can get into a defensive mode because she may be you friend but the fact is she asked me why I was here and I returned the question. I was not disrespectful towards her. If you think that I was seeking validation, you have not read and/or comprehended the post. I took no issue to JBN disagreeing with me in any of her comments, only with her making assumptions.

Who are you referring to? I did not tell anyone not to reply because of who they were, rather the content of their comments. She said she didn't know how to answer the question and I told her she did not have to reply. Are you really asking me why I am asking a question if posters will never understand the situation better than the people involved? This really shouldn't have to be stated because this is a forum for nurses who should have undergone some training in psychology and human communications. In any situation you are asked to weigh in on, be it with friends or online, you have to know that you are not going to know it nearly as well as the people who have experienced it firsthand.

Why are you on this message board? Or any other for that matter? You seem to have quite the problem registering that you will not know the situation nearly as intimately as the people in them, yet you keep replying with useless information. If you don't know what else I want to hear or what else to say, then stop commenting. I am not sure why you are not getting that my main goal is not to complain to my hearts content, I wish to understand and maybe repair the situation because I liked the hospital. Thank you for stating for the third time it was not a HIPAA violation, I did not need you too because unlike some, I possess the skill of reading comprehension and understood when you said it in your first post.

You have been assuming and using "information" that was not in the post from your initial reply, you have effectively created a situation of your own imagination and are replying to my thread hoping it will have some relevance and balking when it does not. One example of this is that you keep stating that they had the right to dismiss me as a patient. I never stated that I had been dismissed as a patient, I said that they told me I was ineligible for surgery. Please use your reading comprehension skills. The only thing that you have had to add to this thread so far that has been useful is that it was not a HIPAA violation. I thank you for that information, but your erroneous assumptions and inapplicable comments besides that are not welcome. If you are not going to post based on the information provided please find another thread to post on.

JustBeachyNurse "You failed to include any of this in your original post" Yes, the information that I added for clarification in the comments was not in the initial post and it was not needed until you assumed the situation was something it was not. "Since you already filed a complaint and had an investigation initiated by a "department head", what are you seeking to discover from a nursing message board? You asked who could you complain to yet you already filed a complaint but did not disclose the information. " Read the initial post again. I never asked who I could complain to, I asked what I could do about the situation. Furthermore, if you were going to interpret that question as me looking for entities to complain to, the list would not stop at the hospitals departments. The answers I am seeking to discover are highlighted in the initial post and are followed by question marks. As for going to a new hospital, I have been considering that. However, the people who I am having problems with are people who either have never treated me or are no longer apart of my healthcare team. I do not agree that this was not retaliation and whether I choose another hospital or not I want to bring light to this situation. Even in elective surgeries, it is still illegal to retaliate.

There seems to be some confusion here, so I will clarify: 1. My nurse coordinator first asked me how the appointment went. When I explained in further detail what happened, she said well sometimes you just won't click with some providers, you can see one of our other providers and that is what I chose to do. 2.JustBeachyNurse brought up some great points, but none of which are relevant to this particular situation. My nurse gave me a list of providers I could choose from when we decided that it would be better if I saw someone else and I chose someone on that list who was a part of their team. 3. I spoke to the department head who told me that it was not a valid reason to cancel surgery or expel a patient and I should still prepare to have surgery at this hospital while the investigation is pending.

Thanks for replying. I read all of my initial agreements and did not sign anything promising to see preferred providers, though this is not an issue because both providers were within the practice and team. I was not belligerent when I told them I wanted to try another provider, and I did not bad mouth the initial provider. Also, please don't assume that because I did not agree with the supervisor that it was automatically me "balking" at her. The supervisor did not call to explain any situation to me. She began the call by saying "Sam saw that you had an appointment with someone else and asked me to audit your chart. You need to make another appointment with Sam" When I asked why, the only reason she gave was because Sam knew me, which was obviously not the case given the only appointment I had with her.

I am currently seeking surgery and have come upon a troublesome situation. For the surgery I am seeking it requires approval from 5 different healthcare providers. I got approval from 4 providers and was not surprised the 5th provider, who is a dietitian, wanted more follow up care. I did not mind doing more follow up care but I chose not to go with that dietitian, for this post we can call her "Sam". Sam told me several times during the evaluation that she did not read my chart or any of the questionnaires she had required I mail in and most of the appointment was spent with her advertising milk products, even though I told her I was lactose sensitive. When it came time to schedule a new appointment, my nurse coordinator called me and lightly tried to coerce me to see Sam again. I refused and made an appointment with another dietitian. The day before I was set to make the 2 hour drive to this hospital, the nurse supervisor calls me because Sam has told her to audit my chart because I was seeing another dietitian. She tells me that she is cancelling my appointment with my new dietitian and that I can't just switch providers like that and goes on and on about how she prefers I stay with Sam. I stood up for myself and told her that I would like to see a new provider and it was my right to choose. She then told me that in that case the appointment could not be made with my new provider until 2 more weeks. I went through the conversation and got really annoyed that the first time I had any contact with this nurse supervisor was her trying to bully me into waiving the right to choose my providers and punish me for not wanting to keep being seen by Sam. I called her back and she did not answer and I left a message saying that I did not appreciate her bullying. The next few times I spoke to her she asked me to come back to the hospital and meet her the new doctor she had hired. When I went to this appointment with this new doctor, it was just the doctor telling me that because I was mistrustful of the staff I was no longer eligible for surgery. The doctor went on further to tell that I had no right telling the nurse supervisor that I would not see Sam again and that she had heard the voicemail and that I should seek care elsewhere. They had me drive 2 hours so that they could tell me that I could not have surgery because they did not like me because I would not see Sam. Before speaking with this nurse supervisor and Sam, I had great relationships with all of my healthcare providers and was set up to have surgery next month. The only thing that has changed between that time frame was the nurse supervisor disliking me. Was it against hipaa for her to share my voicemail and phone calls with the new doctor? Also, I feel very mistreated and want to do something about it, what can I do?

In all the states I have lived in if you do not have any children, you have to work a certain number of hours each week to receive food stamps. The stereotype that you can just sit around on welfare is not always true.

Thanks guys. I think most of my ill feelings are because I really liked the work and the residents. It is nice to know that I was not being unreasonable. If I am in a position like this again I will definitely try to give notice. In this situation I was afraid to give them another 2 weeks because the job just got progressively worse, I did not want to experience what it would be like once they knew I was leaving.

I am a nursing student who recently acquired and quit a resident assistant position at a. assisted living facility. I really liked my job, so I have been mulling over my decision to quit for months. I honestly don't believe it would have worked out and I know it was not a good fit, but that still does not stop me from feeling like a quitter. I felt like the job was simply asking far too much far too soon. Here are the combined reasons I quit, tell me if you think it was justified: -They texted me everyday, any time of the day, and multiple times a day, about things that were not at all urgent. I felt like I was never off work. -They also published my personal phone number in the employee lounge without notice or my consent. -I got hired and paid as a part time employee. My schedule for my first week out of training had over 45 hours on it. No benefits and no days off. -My first week out of training they also expected me to clean and take care of a building of 50 residents by myself, which would have been 2x more duties and residents than anyone else on the same shift. -They scheduled me to work morning, evening, and night shifts all in the same week (and loved calling me the morning after a night shift) -They didn't pay me shift the differential -They were also trying to get me to sign some contract saying that I was personally responsible if anything happened to their new ipads. I was apparently suppose to store the ipads on a cleaning cart in the hall and still be personally responsible for theft and damage. I felt like this job was trying to take over my life and I was not willing to sell it for 10 dollars an hour. I guess what I am truly seeking to know is if others would have endured it and for how long. I did not want to give up my 4.0 nursing gpa, but working mornings, evenings, and nights was making me too tired to concentrate on my studies. I quit the second week and did not give 2 week notice. I really liked being a resident assistant, but with all the issues with management I feared no amount of talking would have made this a good fit for me.