Sunday, March 28, 2010

an interesting turn of events...

Friday I talked with the bloodsucker's boss just as a reminder that I do not want her to see any patients on my unit anymore unless an extreme emergency.  I have spoken to her 2 other times re: this mostly due to her approach is not good for my patients.  Her boss has been very workable but one of the other therapist is in the hospital and she has had no choice the last couple of days.  I told her I understood but please remember if there was anything she could do differently in the future I would appreciate it.  She was kind, listened and voiced understanding of my concerns about her approach with the  patients but now it was getting personal with her bothering me (like on tuesday - again).  I thought all was fine - then I hear from a co worker in that dept who is kinda like 2nd in command that  if I complained about the bloodsucker one more time that there would be no choice and they would have to fire her for harassment!  Oh my God - as angry as I am with her I don't want her fired - I just want her to leave me alone!  No telling what she would do to me then.  The bloodsucker found out from the regional manager and told her that this was bull---- i know this because she immediately went to one of my good friends (with whom she is trying to weave into her web now) and told her - she just can't stay out of my life. Of course my friend called me with concern that the situation maybe getting blown out of proportion.  I appreciated the call but is was not sure if it was out of concern for me or the bloodsucker or for me b/c she is really beginning to get in the web...    To make a long story short I ended up calling the regional manager who is an acquaintance of mine and a very good friend of the bloodsucker. I just didn't want things to get blown out of proportion.  I explained what has been going on w/o getting to personal and she said I did have a case against her since I have specifically told her to leave me alone. She asked what I wanted to do and that she could start a formal process.  She also offered to move her to a different facility.  I just told her that as her boss and friend please make her to the right thing and leave me alone.  The bloodsucker lied to her that she had not bothered me this week - can you believe it?!  I told her that she has known me a lot of years and I know the bloodsucker was a very good friend of hers- but I would not lie about this.  She apologized for it all and said 'lisa, I know that she hurt you' and 'you don't have to go into the details' and 'you don't have to work in that kind of environment' - she was so kind and professional at the same time.  It ended nicely and she told me she would talk to the bloodsucker and her direct boss about this situation.  She told me that if it happened again that she wanted me to call her directly and she would have her moved to a different facility. God please give me strength for tomorrow.  I hope this was the wake up call she needs because obviously she wouldn't listen to me!  Therapy and visit with nurse practitioner this week - I need it!

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