RN suspension

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Hi Everyone, i really need some advise from anyone right now. I am currently suspended for a week from work for sending a wrong email that contained patient information to my personal email. I never opened the email once i found out it was a mistake and deleted it as advised by the company's IT. However yesterday at work I pulled out from my shift by my manager and was told she wanted to meet with me and my union rep later in the afternoon. I thought i did nothing wrong as no patient was harm with what i did nor anyone saw it. Anyways, i came to found out that i send a document to myself containing 500+ PHI of patient. My manager done nothing to help me with the matter as we both have different opinion and way we see things for the unit ever since I became the unit's union steward. I was given an advised by the HR to resign within 7 days if i wanted too so they can give a neutral recommendation for my future employer, the union rep inwas with agreed and added that this will not reflect on my record too of i resign rather than being terminated. I consulted with another union rep and was advised to wait out the verdict of my suspension and file for grievance as this had happened before and no one got suspended and that an employee downloaded his personal icloud on the company's desktop but was not given any verbal warnings. I feel that if i ever came back to work after filing for grievance, i'll be walking on egg shells with my manager and she will still find ways for me to be terminated.

Reason is, my unit is a brand new unit off site of a hospital. They claimed that patient to be transferred here are for disposition concern or for antibiotic completion that's why we are off site and they'll be stable patient. It has been months that none of out patient has been stable, and patient verbally threatning nurses to killing them has raised a safety issue for everyone that my manager denied any of this to her knowledge. We have a ratio of 9:1 with patient having a high acuity, so i went to union for help as i never felt safe and my manager could not care of this safety issue. After this, my manager had have been finding ways for to have an error to point out and use it against me.

what should I do?

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Bottom line is you make a huge mistake and forwarded yourself an email with PHI. Doesn't matter one little bit what the surrounding interpersonal conflicts were or the fact of you being a steward matters. What matters is the fact they have you cold for the HIPPA violation and what could have been a massive actionable data breech. Resign, and save your career.

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After reading all of that I am certain you will lose if you try to fight to save your job. Resign and save yourself a mountain of trouble!

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