Hello Nursing Community:

[Dren01]

Hello! Glad to come to the forum and glad hear from fellow nurses regarding some issues that I have recently been dealing with.

I am new to Anderson Indiana only been here 2 months. I came from Southern California. We decided to move here to get a change. We my husband had been California residents with our 5 children all our lives.

We liked the idea of being able pay our home off here and too how safe the area was compared to where we were living.

Issue I have is that I was a seasoned LVN in Californa had 6 years experience. When anyone had a problem with procedures, how to do paperwork, how to do something on the computers then everyone came to me and respected me. It took me years to get that but I did get that.

Now, here I am in Indiana working at a nice Nursing home. but guess what everyone on night shift is trying to eat me alive. I have aids or qma's yelling at me in the hallways in the patients rooms, the LPn is suppose to answer call lights when the aids are doing bed check. They get 10 breaks at least 10 breaks a night I only get if I am lucky a 10 minute break to eat quickly and return to the floor. But I am the one who keeps getting barraged with how I am not doing my job correctly answering the lights. They have put one Lpn to formally addressing me everytime I even attempt to sit to chart. I am beginning to wonder whether I should just take the chart into the patients room to chart because they obviously dont want me sitting at all. I dont really know how to address this issue because it seems that the last nurse left for the same reason. I am afraid that if I speak up that they will all jump on me. Does anyone have any advice? I have not said anything to my employer yet but I am looking for another position and I have an interview Monday with St. Johns Hospital. There are no supervisors on at night so I dont know what else to do.

Love to hear your posts. D.renfro@insightbb.com email me if you have any advice.

[cougarnurse]

Hi, Dren! Welcome to the forums! Sorry to hear of your troubles; perhaps it is because you are 'the New Kid on the Block'? You didn't mention it, but how many nurses are on your shift?

Perhaps, when you pick up your next paycheck, you could ask your DON for clarification on the call-light/charting problems?

Just to be safe, keep a log of the incidents.....

'Cat'

[Dren01]

reply to cougar nurse your exactly right about keeping memos about all that is going on. I know this where I worked in California everone was eager and willing to jump on all the new hires. Very few would stay and especially on night shift with no real supervisors around it just has come to be my opinion that people who are not right in the head go to night shift so that they can get away with that. One of my friends was actually fired and then rehired because everyone was jumping her for everything but no real good reason to fire her so they had to actually call her back to work to keep from paying her unemployment. They didnt like her because she didnt lie, didnt gossip, didnt take sides with anyone. She stayed close to me but really never verbalized gossip where people could hear it. We stayed to ourselves.

I am probably going to leave a note in my managers mail box tonight. I am afraid she might not believe me, too, it is no telling what they have said about me. I know they were trying to say that was not answering call lights. This incident occurred right when I was having to call the doc on a patient who had been readmitted and was unable to void. Maybe they would be more happy if I had just allowed his bladder to explode just so I answered the lights.

Also, there is another nurse working same floor opposite hallway, one on Assisted Living and one on another skilled section so there is usually 4 nurses there sometimes one is a QMA. The one nurse that you can even talk to was not there that night.
See ya later
Dren01

[cougarnurse]

To be honest, many people love day shift, and very few want
3-11's or 11-7's, at least where I am that is..... (personally, I like
3-11's.) Is there a way you can switch shifts? Just an idea.

[SoldierNurse]

Welcome to the site & post often!

Regards to your immediate concerns... I'd have a sit down with the DON, ASAP.

Good luck!