"Did you report her?"

[FireStarterRN]

I've seen this phrase many times so far on this forum. For me, it would have to be a totally serious offense to go and tell on a co-worker. I get the feeling that some people here are tattletales and like to get their co-workers in trouble.

Have you ever reported something about a co-worker to your manager? Have you ever been reported? What would make you turn in a co-worker?

[All_Smiles_RN]

I reported a nurse who continually made errors and did not know pertinent information. Just plain scary! Ran iron dextrose wide open. Another pt had a PE that she failed to mention in report. I don't expect to be spoon fed my report, but come on now! There was also a pt that had an INR of 5.8, which she did not realize, and she did not have any clue why it would be so high. Reported my concerns to the nurse manager and also said I would not be taking pts from her if they continued to employ her.

That's the only nurse I have ever "reported". I would do it again in a heartbeat. I've never been reported on as far I know.

[leslie :-D]

reported a nurse for being grossly impaired.

reported a nurse for charting off all meds/txs, while she slept all shift in a pt's room.

techs had reported her to me.

i even had 2 conversations w/her.

she blew everyone off.

reported tech for rough handling of a pt who became incontinent in bed.

md reported me for delay of care.

he denied i ever tried to contact him re: acutely ill pt.

my notes (w/names and times) vindicated me.

leslie

[oldiebutgoodie, RN]

I agree, I cannot understand the mentality that any behavior or judgement or simply personal style that you don't agree with needs to be "reported" or "written up." I just don't get it.

Two co-workers have felt the need to tell the manager of instances where 1) my prioritization was different from theirs or 2) I "left work to be done" for the next shift. (on a patient I received 10 minutes before, got vital signs, got on the monitor, and assessed) Geeezzz ...

I have never reported a co-worker, although I would if I thought he/she was diverting, being abusive, or making errors that compromised patient care/safety.

Apparently someone told my mgr that I leave some loose ends for the next shift. I was working days, which were a zoo, and yes, there were a few things left to do. If I have run my butt off for 12 hours with barely 1 bathroom break, you can betcha the next shift can help out. Nursing is 24/7.

Oldiebutgoodie

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

I try handle all my problems and confrontations myself. I can't remember a time I "reported" someone.

As a charge nurse people have on occasion gone over my head. Two that I can remember is when an LPN whine to the manager that I favor the RNs and always give her admissons. Another RN went to the manager stating I always give the RNs the admissions because I'm afraid of the LPNs. Go figure. If both parties had come to me first, a lot of frustration could have been avoided.

People have a fear of confrontation and want others (i.e. management) to fight battles that we can fight ourselves. I wouldn't be so negative as to brand our profession as one full of tattletales, because it's a societal problem. People would rather ignore a problem or try to get someone else to handle it for them than have an honest, mature and productive confrontation. I'm dealing with that right now as two coworkers rather than talk to each other (they're having a family fued worse than Romeo and Juliet that is seriously a generation old) they keep coming to me with issues better resolved amongst themselves.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

I've seen this phrase many times so far on this forum. For me, it would have to be a totally serious offense to go and tell on a co-worker. I get the feeling that some people here are tattletales and like to get their co-workers in trouble.

Have you ever reported something about a co-worker to your manager? Have you ever been reported? What would make you turn in a co-worker?

I don't report co-workers at the drop of a hat. I have a fulfilling life, therefore i do not feel the need to entertain myself by getting co-workers in trouble.

I have reported co-workers, all of the instances involved pt. harm, or very potential pt. harm that was BARELY avoided. I haven't been reported yet.

[leslie :-D]

where i work, if there is conflict betw staff, mgmt won't even listen to us.

they expect us to handle it, being the adults that we are.

leslie

[Nursebarebari]

1 work on a very busy large unit with a total of 30 nurses for day shift only. And trust me, there are some of them that I really would love to report to someone who would take action. Just last night I walk into a aptient room and found one of the nurses washing the trach patient's inner cannula in emesis basin with tap water. This is the second time I caught her doing this; I warned her the first time but I guess she did not listen. When I spoke to another co-worker about it, he told me not to bother to report her b/c that was not the first time she was caught doing things like and that she had been reported many times but no one follows up. She is a friend of the supervisors and she cook ackee and salt fish (a form of carreabian dish) for them all time. He told me something that she did at one time but I can not tell anyone b/c it is too bad. And those at the top don't really care, so a lot of the nurses do sloppy jobs and get away with it.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

where i work, if there is conflict betw staff, mgmt won't even listen to us.

they expect us to handle it, being the adults that we are.

leslie

That's my approach as a charge nurse. Whenever someone comes to me I listen and then ask "what did you do about it? What did they say when you told them how you feel?"........usually I get a deer in the headlights look because it never dawned on them to handle it themselves.

[woody62, RN]

I have reported co-workers to the Nurse Manager for medication errors, endangering a patient, the second time I've caught them handling a patient too roughly, ignoring lights, after having been counseled. As a Nurse Manager, I have counseled employees for the above offenses. For medication errors, the second one got you sent to a medication course. The third one, within twelve months, go you referred to the BON (facility policy). If the BON didn't do anything, a fourth one, within twelve months, they got fired and a note in their reference.

The one time I reported someone was during a summer when we had third year medical students working our night shift, to lend us a hand, in ICU. They were suppose to take a patient's vital signs, help move and reposition. I observed one taking a blood pressure and listening to his heart beat without the stethoscope being plugged into his ears. I asked several other nurses to observed their med students and they all observed the same problem. We took it to the night supervisor, who took it to the DON and Med School. They were all terminated and we carried on, just like we had before their help.

[Dalzac, LPN, LVN, RN]

I have been in nursing for 30 yrs so yes I have been written up a couple of times. I have gone to my boss around 3 times to report a nurse,1) coming to work drunk drunk drunk. 2) hitting a patient. and last Drug diversion The last one was not just to protect the patient but also trying to get the nurse help as well.

[sharona97, BSN, RN]

This is somewhat off the key subject here,but has anyone gotten other coworker's in your face because you do your job correctly? And they try to make your shift miserable?

[sharona97, BSN, RN]

I've had to relunctly give report to a co-worker who disclosed how "high"she was and she was! I was ready to go pick up my kid and didn't do anything about it as I didn't work with her on the next shift. Now I feel like I was a bad nurse.