(@work, 11pm, starting shift. suspect nurse #1 is sorting meds on a cart)
SUSPECT NURSE #1: (sorority girl perky) oh hi! do you think you could get vitals on 111? they had a fall today.
ME: sure i will. (setting voice tone to business casual)
oh hey did you photograph me sleeping on my lunchbreak and show it to our boss out of context the next morning?
HER: (blinks,swallows, looks down) um no but i heard about that afterward from a few people.
ME: oh good. so you know who did it.
HER: i...'m not.. getting involved. it's messed up. (pretends to write)
ME: it's more than messed up, they fire people over that. and now you're holding back information from me about it?
HER: (roadkill stare) it's unprofessional
ME: i agree it's unprofessional. i see a lot of unprofessional things here. maybe we should all start documenting them to make a better work place for everyone. you lnow what is unfortunate?
HER: (sighing) what?
ME: i did the math, considering i know exactly when i fell asleep cause it was on break. i know the date this photo of me was taken and presented to our boss, because they came in unannounced to observe me at 4am the next shift. i know all the insomniac residents who wander the halls at night because i take care of them and none of them have cellphones they can operate, much les understand the camera of or creep up and away to take a photo with if they had reason to. i can't think of a resident's family who would visit at 2am if it wasn't an emergency and there definitey weren't any that night if i could sleep through my lunchbreak. that leaves only 2 other people in the building on noc shift working that night--you and the other cna.
HER: (blinks)
ME: you want some coffee? i was going to make some for everybody.
SUSPECT NURSE #1: (sorority girl perky) oh hi! do you think you could get vitals on 111? they had a fall today.
ME: sure i will. (setting voice tone to business casual)
oh hey did you photograph me sleeping on my lunchbreak and show it to our boss out of context the next morning?
HER: (blinks,swallows, looks down) um no but i heard about that afterward from a few people.
ME: oh good. so you know who did it.
HER: i...'m not.. getting involved. it's messed up. (pretends to write)
ME: it's more than messed up, they fire people over that. and now you're holding back information from me about it?
HER: (roadkill stare) it's unprofessional
ME: i agree it's unprofessional. i see a lot of unprofessional things here. maybe we should all start documenting them to make a better work place for everyone. you lnow what is unfortunate?
HER: (sighing) what?
ME: i did the math, considering i know exactly when i fell asleep cause it was on break. i know the date this photo of me was taken and presented to our boss, because they came in unannounced to observe me at 4am the next shift. i know all the insomniac residents who wander the halls at night because i take care of them and none of them have cellphones they can operate, much les understand the camera of or creep up and away to take a photo with if they had reason to. i can't think of a resident's family who would visit at 2am if it wasn't an emergency and there definitey weren't any that night if i could sleep through my lunchbreak. that leaves only 2 other people in the building on noc shift working that night--you and the other cna.
HER: (blinks)
ME: you want some coffee? i was going to make some for everybody.
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