Question by Wowser!: Suspended from job, don’t know why really….boss won’t return call.?
Sorry this is gonna be a book, Ok I am a nurse, last week my staff and I had a night from hell, 7-6-10 . We were understaffed and it was complete craziness all night. I did more work that night to help the CNA’s then I did for the Nurse’s. It was just one of those nights. No one recieved a lunch break, and it was constant running all night long. So we made it through, it was a tough night but we did it. The next day on 7-7-10 I got a phone call from the DON stating she needed me to come in to speak with her, I explained that it was late in the day and I would come in the following morning. She didn’t give me a reason. On 7-8-10 (my 1 year anniversary at the job) I called my DON and explained that I didn’t think I would be able to make it in, as there was a family emergency over the night and I had not been to bed as of yet. She then told me that she needed to question me because I had been placed on suspension. She didn’t tell me why. I went right in, had a family member drive me there so I didn’t fall asleep behind the wheel. I waited for more than 1 1/2 hours to speak with her. During the wait a CNA that I had worked with on the hell night was there, I asked her what was up. She stated she WASN’T allowed to talk to me and got in her car and left. Still have no idea why…talked to my boss, she says that she recieved a complaint that I refused to give pain medicine to a resident, I stated that was a lie. The particular resident I had went into her room several times that night and NOT ONCE did she appear or state that she was in pain to me. That another CNA had told me the resident said her “chest hurt”. The resident had an URI and had been coughing and I told the CNA that it didn’t surprise me that her chest was hurting due to the fact that she had been coughing. The CNA then told me the resident wanted to be repositioned and I went with the CNA and did that. The resident never had anymore complaints the rest of the night, myself and the CNA checked on her throughout the night and she appeared to be sleeping. Never heard from her again. The resident also receives scheduled pain meds at 10 pm and 5 am which she did recieve. I was also accused of NOT allowing my staff to have their lunch breaks. I am pretty lax on the breaks part, as long as you are doing your job, I don’t mind if you take an extra break, just let me know where you will be if I need you. The CNA’s that night asked me about lunch breaks, it was 4 am at that time, 2 hours before our shift ended. I told them to decide if they thought they could take their lunch breaks and still get their jobs completed and let me know. They decided not to take the break and I signed off for them. Didn’t get one myself, so no BIGGIE. They also said that I dropped a pill in some phlegm and then gave it to a resident. Mind you that is disgusting first off, and that NEVER HAPPENED. Anyway I was suspended pending an investigation. I was told that I WOULD be paid if I was allowed back to work. I asked for some kind of paper stating that I was suspended and why, the DON said “I haven’t wrote it up yet” and was never given any documentation. I was told I needed to submit a statement and have it notarized and that I was going to be turned into state. I went into work on 7-9-10 and gave them my statement of the entire events of the night. I even recalled during the questioning that one of the CNA’s on duty that night didn’t follow safety protocol and transferred a resident with a lift by herself. This was told to the DON the day of questioning. The other CNA quit her job that night, said she was tired of everything. When I turned in the statement the DON was very nice to me, telling me about other residents on the floor, even told me my hair looked nice. She said she would know something on Monday 7-12-10. I waited all day for the phone call on Monday, nothing, finally called and spoke with her and she said “It is taking longer than expected, I will definently know something tommarrow, I will let you know.” I have missed 3 days of work thusfar. Then waited all day on 7-13-10 to hear something, nothing, called there twice and was told the DON was in meetings, left messages, was never called back. I am suppossed to work 7-14-10, called to work tonight and they stated there was NO ONE wrote in to work for my shift. Then recieved another phone call stating someone who was just hired was told she would be working my shift tonight. What did I do? I have never recieved any written, verbal warnings. I was asked to take a management position 3 weeks ago and refused. Can’t figure this out. Should I just continue to call and hope that the DON answers and can give me some kind of explanation. I live paycheck to paycheck I can’t afford not to have a paycheck. I don’t even know why I would be turned into state over this petty stuff eith
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Answer by Row B
i would walk down there and demand explanations, and demand things in writting. i would also be talking to your union about this and also the HR manager
Get advice from the local council as to what steps you can take
Dont go down queitly
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