I feel compelled to reveal the malice that is lurking behind the facade of the well-regarded New-York Presbyterian hospital. The organization have the best surgeons known to get excellent results with patients undergoing difficult operations, but unfortunately the nurses I worked with are a disgrace to the profession. A little over 3 years ago I landed a nursing assistant position at the hospital. I was excited, but the day I stepped foot on the 30 beds acute care unit, I experienced a taste of animosity, which escalated to full -blown hate in no time and I became a human punching bag.
I went above and beyond the call of duty to implement the hospital's core values. I developed a supportive relationship with patients and their loved ones, I did everything in my power to make their stay enjoyable, but the nurses are so flat, joyless, and humorless, they were vehemently against me. The unit serves the needs of patients with neurological disorders, therefore their safety and dignity should be preserved, but the nurses are so hateful they ignored their roles as ultimate healers.
I faithfully shared my concerns with the nurse director, HR and the manager on a constant basis. They chose to place a higher value on the survey. They wanted me to resign because none of them was willing to encourage the nurses to get more involve in the care of their patients. When they realized that I am not a quitter, the bullying took a turn for the worse, they made constant attempt to undermine my potential, I was singled out, mismanaged, everyone got away with murder, but if I made a mistake whatever trivial-action was taken against me.
I was always subjected to diciplinary procedures, with verbal or written warnings imposed for fabricated reasons and without proper investigation. I struggled for 3 years with verbally abusive co-workers, a do-nothing manager, inequitably distributed workload. HR misapplies the tools of traditional resolution for example, for example one of the nursing assistant who coached many of my patients to write complaint letters against me, nearly physically assaulted me twice in one year, when I later brought the incident to the attention of employee relation, they held a private meeting with her, and held another one with both of us in the manager's office where I was treated me like the predator. Nurses are known to be compulsive liars, Jekyll and Hyde in nature, charming and innocent in front of superiors, vicious and vindictive in private, only me (their target) who saw both sides.
The manager kept close contact with the nurse director who is by-the way pure "poison" not for the purpose of improving patient's quality of care, but to set me up, but I outsmarted them for 3 years. I was more connected with the patients and family members in a way no one in the nursing staff ever did. The CNA position in that unit is not a high profile position, 90% entails the cleaning of patients who loses control over their urine and stool, so the reason for competition was beyond me. My rights were not validated, I barely had a pay raise, the manager bullied me like her livelihood depended on it,
I kept a positive attitude and build an external shell as a defense mechanism so I didn't claim any of that my own, but on March the director of nursing stopped providing adequate staffing on days I worked just to compromised the care of the 15 patients I was assigned to, so there'd be complains against me.indeed my patients were complaining becasue of the long wait to get assistance, to the bathroom. It was humanly impossible to cater to the needs of those patients without the help of their nurses. The nurses at that unit are tolerated, they can never be found guilty of any wrong doing especially if it was something involving me. On Saturday April 9th, while I was busy taking vital signs, a patient called for bathroom assistance, as usual his nurse overheaded for me to report, I couldn't make it on time, the patient fell, when the supervisor stopped for reports she spontaniously made a false accusation against me to avoid focusing on the reason why the patient fell. That supervisor has compassion and grace, he checked her story in depth. And he was convinced that was a lie. The nurse director who is a watchdog for the nurses quickly expedited my termination so I wouldn't be vindicated. That group is like a metastatic cancer. I finally succumbed on May 9th I was terminated on May 9th for misusing 2 bereavement days, and my unemployment benefits were denied, although a nurse received a slap on the wrist after she gave the wrong medecine to a patient while intoxicated. Can someone please answer me that!
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