Posted by Julie Reyes on 2/07/07

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I was terminated from a long term care facility (nursing
home) about 3 weeks ago. Their claim is that I falsified
a document, the true statement is that I did write a wrong
date on a discharge summary simply due to being tired ( I
had worked about 39 hours of overtime that week due to
being on call, also it would be of no benefit to me to
back date a document of this nature).
I think the reasons that I was terminated were due to the
fact that I had made it quite known that when my facility
Administrator returned from her conference I was going to
turn in my Director of Nursing for failing to respond to
my complaints of being too tired to work an additional
shift and that I was unsafe to care for my residents ( I
had already made a medication error and was having a very
difficult time concentrating and I let the DON know this
and I was still forced to work to cover call in’s).
When it usually takes a stick of dynamite to get our
company to terminate someone, I was terminated after only
one offense; there were no other complaints or policy and
procedure violations in my employee file. My company did
not follow our policy and procedure, which they always
seem to rely on for everyone else. I have contacted the
HR rep at corporate but have not received a phone call
back. All I want is the 3 weeks vacation time and my
termination changed to resignation, I don’t feel that this
is too much to ask for wimpy excuse they used to get me
out the door. I also feel this may have been related to
the fact that I had made a written request for a month
unpaid leave that I was planning to take when our adopted
baby was born. Another misstep is that they changed my
salary without notifying me.

I have called many state and federal offices, but my
situation dosen't seem to fall into any catagory. I could
really use some good counsil in this matter.
Thank you,
Julie heart_mender@hotmail.com

Re: failure to follow policy and procedure in a termination, 2/17/07, by Attorney/Nurse.

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