I would like to bring to your attention an ongoing issue that has been occurring with Monica Petit. Usually I am able to excuse or ignore her behavior but am no longer able to do so since she has demonstrated no level of professionalism or respect for her fellow peers and particularly toward me. I have witnessed Monica on several occasion display a bad attitude toward staff and I find that I am unable to approach her on a personal level to address her behavior. On June 20, 2015 at about 2130 Monica was notified that her patient was requesting to go to the hospital. After returning from a smoke break with Christine, Monica then notified me and asked me to speak to the patient. Not knowing anything about the patient, I asked Monica to assess
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Usually I am able to fulfil my duties as a nurse no matter what conflict I am facing, but in this situation doing so was extremely difficult. In this situation, due to unnecessary conflict, patient care was delayed which is unfair to the patient and more importantly puts the patient’s health at risk. For this reason, I feel that this issue should not be ignored. Both Christine and Monica were extremely inappropriate and unprofessional. The situation could not be handled appropriately away from the patient care area because both nurses repeatedly refused to talk privately in the med room. Due to this I was subjected to bullying as both Christine and Monica talked to me disrespectfully and in appropriately in front of other staff and patients. Because the entire situation played out in the hallway and at the nurse’s desk there are several witnesses. The witnesses that I can recall being present are the following: Rachel, Kimberly Hockman, Michelle, and Kendra Johnson. I later attempted to approach Monica again in a professional manner and Monica continued to refuse to go in the medication room with me to talk but proceeded to yell at me at the nurse’s station making several accusation that were untrue. She then went down short hall to the nurse Christine who was giving report to Mary Rudolph and said “now she’s yelling at me again”. I then stated to Monica that I am not yelling and at this point Monica …show more content…
I did not witness this confrontation but was told that Monica, Kendra, and Christine were yelling at each other. I also witnessed Monica yelling at Kara on 6/12/15 who was 11-7 supervisor at the time. This behavior by both Monica and Christine is insubordination and should result in a clinical education or write up. It is clear that Monica is unaware of her duties as a cart nurse and the duties of the desk nurse and that she lacks respect for her peers. I have witnessed Monica become argumentative toward other supervisors particularly Jennifer Barille, Kara Rancourt, and several CNA’s for example Kim Hockman. In addition to this, Monica and Christine’s habit of leaving the floor together to take smoke breaks no less than 2-3 times throughout the shift should also be addressed. With Christine being a new nurse it is imperative that this in addition to inappropriate behavior be addressed with her in order to prevent further incidences of insubordination that may ultimately result in harm to our patients. If any further information is needed to address this situation, I would be happy to clarify or further explain what happened that day along with other incidence I have
Usually I am able to fulfil my duties as a nurse no matter what conflict I am facing, but in this situation doing so was extremely difficult. In this situation, due to unnecessary conflict, patient care was delayed which is unfair to the patient and more importantly puts the patient’s health at risk. For this reason, I feel that this issue should not be ignored. Both Christine and Monica were extremely inappropriate and unprofessional. The situation could not be handled appropriately away from the patient care area because both nurses repeatedly refused to talk privately in the med room. Due to this I was subjected to bullying as both Christine and Monica talked to me disrespectfully and in appropriately in front of other staff and patients. Because the entire situation played out in the hallway and at the nurse’s desk there are several witnesses. The witnesses that I can recall being present are the following: Rachel, Kimberly Hockman, Michelle, and Kendra Johnson. I later attempted to approach Monica again in a professional manner and Monica continued to refuse to go in the medication room with me to talk but proceeded to yell at me at the nurse’s station making several accusation that were untrue. She then went down short hall to the nurse Christine who was giving report to Mary Rudolph and said “now she’s yelling at me again”. I then stated to Monica that I am not yelling and at this point Monica …show more content…
I did not witness this confrontation but was told that Monica, Kendra, and Christine were yelling at each other. I also witnessed Monica yelling at Kara on 6/12/15 who was 11-7 supervisor at the time. This behavior by both Monica and Christine is insubordination and should result in a clinical education or write up. It is clear that Monica is unaware of her duties as a cart nurse and the duties of the desk nurse and that she lacks respect for her peers. I have witnessed Monica become argumentative toward other supervisors particularly Jennifer Barille, Kara Rancourt, and several CNA’s for example Kim Hockman. In addition to this, Monica and Christine’s habit of leaving the floor together to take smoke breaks no less than 2-3 times throughout the shift should also be addressed. With Christine being a new nurse it is imperative that this in addition to inappropriate behavior be addressed with her in order to prevent further incidences of insubordination that may ultimately result in harm to our patients. If any further information is needed to address this situation, I would be happy to clarify or further explain what happened that day along with other incidence I have