Reply #25: Yep...that's the scenario..to a T [View All]

[rainbow4321]

You get the feeling if one of them walked up to you and punched you in the face right in front of management, you would be written up for running into their fist.

For a while I was doing write ups about HIPAA violations, needle safety, equipment safety, and other legit stuff..I started doing those because it became painfully clear that if I "just" told the immediate manager about my findings, I was brushed off as being a pest and nothing was changed.
So I turned to making out online reports that would automatically go to both my immediate boss as well was the QA dept. The QA dept then calls the immediate boss and says
WHAT are YOU doing to fix this problem. Amazing how things get addressed and resolved when that dept. gets word of what is going wrong.
So I think part of the problem is management resentment about that but everything I did was in the best interest of patient safety..right down to no one changing the filter in the breathing treatment machine in forever instead of doing it monthly. Everything I reported was a legit safety/health/pt privacy issue.

Staffers take extended lunches, use their cell phones non stop, disappear for unexplained periods of time, literally sit around and do crossword puzzles. All while a handful of us try to keep the pt care going smoothly.
Say anything about this stuff and you are then the pariah.
We were literally told in a meeting that everyone should "just come and do your own work, do it the best you can do, and NOT pay attention to what OTHER people are doing".
Nothing like giving the green light to the offenders and discouraging everyone else who is having to pick up the slack.

I stayed there only because I loved the patients and the care I was giving.
Hindsite, I should have thrown in the towel a while back.