Ratted Out A Coworker - The Joys of Charging

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I had had enough of the rotten attitude of this one assistant, the disrespect, the deserting of her post, the refusal to communicate with me and to tell me when she needs to leave the ward. She said she'd see me in the parking lot.

Supervisor basically backed me up, at least to my face. Wonder how she will portray it if it goes any further. Wish I could win the lottery and never have to go back to work. I just hate this type of stuff sooooo much. :o:o:o:o:crying2::crying2::crying2::cry::cry::cry::cry::crying2:

I want to know what happened to the respect nurses used to get from the techs, pca's...Did it just go out the window? Sounds like administration needs to get involved.

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Specializes in Med Surg/Tele/ER.

It seems so weird to read this stuff. I live in a small town & most of our aides/cna's have been there forever. We just do not have this problem. I did have one kinda test me out when I first started but that is pretty much it. I don't know but I think some of it is living in the city & the generation. I know when we had to travel to Louisville for clinicals that was the attitude there.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

Why can't people just come to work and do their job? Is it so hard to ask? When I worked on step-down, I did everything myself most of the time. The last nine months I was there I never took a break because I was so busy with my four patients and the aides always had an issue with having to do their work. Plus, our management sucked too and had no backbone.

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Specializes in CVICU, CCU, MICU, SICU, Transplant.

Can't believe the OP was threatened like that...or maybe I can. There are some crazy ppl out there, and unfortunately some are in healthcare.

Did other ppl hear this threat besides you?

I would have been on the phone to the police and my unit manager. Who knows if she meant it or not, especially in today's world.

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Yup there are crazy people out there even in healthcare, that is why i try my best to avoid conflict at all costs. I don't want someone getting postal on me. Going to the supervisor was the right decision. But i was wondering if you go to the police and report that a person threatened you, do you need proof (witnesses)? Or is it a he said/she said type of situation that can be dismissed?

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Get yourself some pepper spray. There are some crazy people out there.

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sounds like you have it pretty tough.

I don't understand why some assistants have such attitudes when you ask of a favor for them. Besides, that is what they are there for, as our assistants.

I was an assistant for almost 4 years before becoming an RN, and I never gave nurses attitude about doing something for them.

sometimes, I would be so busy and they would ask me to weigh a diaper, and inside I would be ****** because they were probably gossiping while the diaper would be just sitting there...... but I would not say anything, because it was my job to help them...... I always was very helpful to everyone I worked with.... and because I was so nice, the nurses complained about me to the director, saying that I didn't work hard enough or that I didn't help them.... well, I can't help everyone when I am the only assistant for 12 nurses in an PICU floor!!!

the nerve of them to do that to me, I left, became a float and loved it, everyone was nice to me, appreciative that I was there, I met lots of people, and it was awesome.

Now that I am an RN I work in a surgical floor, I don't ask much of the assistants. yes they are there to help me, and if I do need them for something I will ask, if I can do it myself, I will just do it myself.

I don't like getting attitude from people.

I wasn't asking for a favor. I stated my requirements - that she not leave the floor without letting me know/ask if it was ok for her to leave so that not too many staff would be off the ward at a time, and that she not sleep on duty. These are totally reasonable requirements in my mind, not favors.

As for being pooped on when we are too nice - ain't it the truth. It seems that people leave us alone if we are disagreeable because, as you say, you don't ask much because you don't like getting attitude. I know, me too.:cry:

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

I am sorry this happened, but I am not surprized. Many times, people can report to managers, only to get egg on their faces when nothing happens and you are still forced to work with these people.

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I didn't really take it as a very credible threat, although you never know these days especially. I think she was very taken aback when I told her and the supervisor (we were in supervisor's office and she did hear her say it) that I was going to call the police and make a report because I felt threatened. I didn't really feel all that threatened or take it seriously but wanted the aide to realize that I had heard her and wanted her to think she was going to have to deal with the police for her BS words. I did not make the report. The Security guard came to talk to me but I said I didn't want to make a formal complaint. The Supervisor had already done that, more or less, I suppose you could say, just by calling the Security guard into the office and telling him about it.

Thanks to all for your support and concern. I hate stuff like this.

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Yup there are crazy people out there even in healthcare, that is why i try my best to avoid conflict at all costs. I don't want someone getting postal on me. Going to the supervisor was the right decision. But i was wondering if you go to the police and report that a person threatened you, do you need proof (witnesses)? Or is it a he said/she said type of situation that can be dismissed?

I don't see how police could require a reporter to have proof or witnesses. I have seen, though, where police will try to talk people out of making reports. I guess it's work for them so they try to dissuade people from reporting sometimes, especially if they think it's kind of minor or that the reporter won't pursue it, should the prosecutor and court become involved.

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Specializes in OB, M/S, HH, Medical Imaging RN.
That concerns me too. The young lady needs to know that garbage like that is unacceptable, and taken very seriously.:nono:

She may be young but she's certainly no "lady" with a trash mouth like that.

I'm surprised she was not fired. The hospital where I work will fire an employee for threatening harm.

Years and years ago when I was an LPN (we were not allowed any autonomy back then) I was working nights and had a patient with CP. The charge nurse said "oh nonsense" she went down the hall and told the patient to quit whinning and go to sleep. His BP was quite elevated over the previous reading. I called the doctor after the charge nurse explicitly forbid me to do so. I told her he ordered a stat EKG. LPN's weren't allowed to write the orders back then. Well....this charge nurse got violent and began shaking her fist at me. "you little nothing how dare you call that doctor". The supervisor got off the elevator (I had paged her) and she heard what she was saying and saw her shaking her fist at me. The next day the charge nurse was fired for threatening behavior.

I say no tolerance for violence! Even if it's verbal.

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

I, too, don't understand why this person wasn't fired and escorted out the door after the threat.

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