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I work on a telemetry/dialysis floor that has a high volume of critical care step down patients. Days are busy and stressful but I feel I always cover myself. I have been a nurse of a little over two years which no longer makes me a new nurse but I'm definitley still learning. Yesterday, I received a call from my nurse manager telling me not to come into work over the weekend and to report to her Monday morning at 10am (I was supposed to work Sat, Sun, Mon). When I asked her what was wrong she said it was due to a "patient complaint" that needed investigation and I could not work until she had more information. I know this can mean a number of things. She wouldn't even let me know if my job/license was in jeopardy. She here I am, on a Saturday afternoon, unable to enjoy my unexpected weekend off because I am pulling my hair out over the suspense of Monday morning. I'm assuming a former patient or family member of a former patient is seeking legal action against my hospital, and as an employee of the hospital, I am being put on the spot. I have asked co-workers if they have heard anything and no one has. I am reaching out to you fellow nurses to see if you can help me shed some light on all of this, especially if something similar has happened to you. Thank you

Specializes in IMCU.

This was not a good week! Friday I had a doctor complain about me and tell my nurse manager that he didn't think I should be on my unit! He was in a bad mood when he walked into the nurse's station and I guess I was his whipping boy.:confused: I work on a tele/renal floor and he is a nephrologist, so I don't know how this is going to turn out. I've been a nurse the same amount of time you have, so like you said, I'm still learning too. I really was starting to feel a little more confident in my time management, but that really went down the tubes yesterday.:uhoh3:

I am going crazy waiting for Monday to come. Pray for me that this works out and I can stay where I am.

Good luck with your situation, too.

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I know my nurse manager pretty well. Not friends out of work, but I like and respect her very much. The w/e stress would be killing me. Normally I would never call my boss at home, but in this case I would in a minute. I would apologize profusely, then beg for any info I could get. It might be the situation is so minor SHE didn't think it was anything to worry about, without sharing that with you. As far as your license goes, it really has to be a huge mistake for your license to be in play. Good luck. One more day to go.

I'm not so sure that it has to be a huge mistake any more for our license to be in jeopardy. Just recently, I read in my state's newsletter that they send to all licensees a few times each year that an employer is required to inform them of EVERY problem or error involving nurses. That seems quite over the top to me and I don't think most employers do it if they determine the problem to be unworthy of resulting in making a nurse's life he!!. But that's what I read anyway, for whatever that's worth.

I hope the deal with her boss is as you say - that the issue is so minor that she didn't think it worthy of worrying about. I doubt it but hope I;'m wrong.

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UNION...UNION...UNION!

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Specializes in Med Surg-Geriatrics.

Thats what I say ALL Nurses should be unionized!

as for the naysayers Iv'e been in one in another state and I'm all for them!

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.
This was not a good week! Friday I had a doctor complain about me and tell my nurse manager that he didn't think I should be on my unit! He was in a bad mood when he walked into the nurse's station and I guess I was his whipping boy.:confused: I work on a tele/renal floor and he is a nephrologist, so I don't know how this is going to turn out. I've been a nurse the same amount of time you have, so like you said, I'm still learning too. I really was starting to feel a little more confident in my time management, but that really went down the tubes yesterday.:uhoh3:

I am going crazy waiting for Monday to come. Pray for me that this works out and I can stay where I am.

Good luck with your situation, too.

It always seems to be the specialists that have the epic temper tantrums. Well, that's my experience anyway!! If you are lucky, and you really didn't do anything horrible enough to warrant you being kicked off the unit, your nurse manager will tell the guy where to go.

On to the union question. I used to be the most anti-union person around. They attempted to organize our hospital and they were voted down. Things have changed in such disturbing ways in the last 20 years I am also reconsidering my viewpoint on it. I would just say that I hope LPN/LVN unions and RN unions can work together. In the past, one never knew what the other was doing. That splintering can only hurt all of us in the long run.

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In my experience, renal specialists are among the rudest of all. May a pox befall him. (Johnny Carson, as Carnac the Magnificent, used to say stuff like that when the audience didn't give him a big laugh. Uh, well, it was funny when he said it. :lol2: Seriously, some of these rudies are just so rude. ENT and Cardiologists are also, in my neck of the woods, very rude.

So can you share what happened today? We're here for you, good or bad.

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Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

I want to know what happened too. Please let us know.

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Specializes in IMCU.

When I met with my manager today, I was given 2 options. Either resign or be suspended for 3 days, not be able to transfer for 6 months, and one more strike and your terminated. I couldn't deal with that hanging over my head, so I resigned.

There are several other hospitals in my area, so I think I'll be OK. I just wish I had been able to speak to the physician and let him know what an a**hole I think he is. I agree, Korky, may a pox befall him.

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I would not have resigned over what one doctor said, unless it was very serious and had some merit to the accusation. Hope that you are able to get another job without difficulty.

When the doctor finds out that you were forced to resign, I hope he walks around with a feeling of utmost satisfaction. He deserves to think he is beyond being responsible for his behavior like the rest of us. One day he will get what is coming to him.

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I wouldn't have quit either until I found another job. I do wish you the best of luck in finding a new one ASAP. What goes around does come around eventually.

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You resigned just because one doctor talked bad about you? Do they have any proof? What exactly did you do wrong?

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When I met with my manager today, I was given 2 options. Either resign or be suspended for 3 days, not be able to transfer for 6 months, and one more strike and your terminated. I couldn't deal with that hanging over my head, so I resigned.

There are several other hospitals in my area, so I think I'll be OK. I just wish I had been able to speak to the physician and let him know what an a**hole I think he is. I agree, Korky, may a pox befall him.

Pox after pox after pox upon him. But dear, WHY did you resign? The options your manager gave you don't make sense, and the punishment does not appear to fit any crime. I don't know what you did, but jeeze! What's going on there?

I've been pro-union throughout my career. Even while I was management I was pro-union. These days, as we struggle to function in the perverted business culture and economic climate we have now, unions may soon become the only salvation for staff nurses.

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