Blame The Nurse, Part 2

In my post a couple of days ago, Blame The Nurse, some nurses were written up for following a doctor's order without questioning it. I had assumed that it was the doctor who had written up the nurses, but it turns out that it was one of my nurse coworkers who wrote them up.

This nurse is ambitious and would like to move up the ladder into management, which is fine, but she seems to think that writing up her coworkers will help advance her career. The ironic part is that she is a bad nurse. On any day that she works, I can find several things she did wrong which are bad enough to write her up for, but I don't. The patients also complain about her attitude. It would be a good thing for her to go into management where she couldn't do as much harm.

A couple of months ago, she went on a writing-up spree and I handled it by writing up everything she did wrong. After she was called on the carpet for her mistakes, there were tears, histrionics, sarcasm and threats for a few days, but she stopped writing people up. Perhaps she has forgotten her lesson. Perhaps she thinks that if she doesn't write up me or my friends she will be safe. I think that it's time to reinforce her previous lesson. (Don't try to get ahead by stomping on your coworkers.)