I went to a staff meeting today with many other nurses and one particular nurse who works as a team leader, but who does not supervise me came up to me and asked me a question. She says "How was your weekend?" I reply "Oh it was alright" and she says "Oh, you mean no write ups or family's complaining about you?" as if that was a regular occurrence for me. I was slightly upset over this comment. Several months ago, I did have several incidents in one weekend where several family's complained, it was a stressful weekend where my computer was not working and I could not access my charts and I basically worked 12+ hour shifts three days in a row. It was the first time in my career that anyone had every complained about me, and it has not happened since.
What concerns me though is that I never told this particular nurse about these incidents and was never "written up" I did receive counseling though my job, and I have since worked on the issues that the complaints were about. The patient satifaction ratings at my work have increased by 22% on my shift since I started. I feel like this was a lateral violence comment, and intended to make me feel bad.
I am considering talking to my supervisor about this, but am worried that it may make more waves. It really bothers me that she made this comment though. Should I report this to my supervisor, or just let it go?
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I went to a staff meeting today with many other nurses and one particular nurse who works as a team leader, but who does not supervise me came up to me and asked me a question. She says "How was your weekend?" I reply "Oh it was alright" and she says "Oh, you mean no write ups or family's complaining about you?" as if that was a regular occurrence for me. I was slightly upset over this comment. Several months ago, I did have several incidents in one weekend where several family's complained, it was a stressful weekend where my computer was not working and I could not access my charts and I basically worked 12+ hour shifts three days in a row. It was the first time in my career that anyone had every complained about me, and it has not happened since.
What concerns me though is that I never told this particular nurse about these incidents and was never "written up" I did receive counseling though my job, and I have since worked on the issues that the complaints were about. The patient satifaction ratings at my work have increased by 22% on my shift since I started. I feel like this was a lateral violence comment, and intended to make me feel bad.
I am considering talking to my supervisor about this, but am worried that it may make more waves. It really bothers me that she made this comment though. Should I report this to my supervisor, or just let it go?