This year is off to bang already. I had several consults over the weekend.
If you are a nurse and you are represented a union in the workplace pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement, remember the union is focused on the workplace and labor issue, not a State Nursing Board complaint filed in response to the workplace issue.
You may need to consult with an attorney who practices nursing law for objective advice and counseling and determine your options from a licensure and workplace perspective.
I am not saying (please don't email me with any BS) that nursing unions don't represent its membership well (actually that's being said in other places on the internet). Nursing unions are focused on the collective bargaining agreement and consulting with an attorney who practices nursing law can give you a "totality of the circumstances" view of the incident that your union rep, union president or labor relations specialist and attorney for the union doesn't see because its not their role, job, or duty to "see" it.
The advice given to you by the union makes sense maybe from an labor or workplace perspective but does it make sense and is it your best option from a licensure perspective as well?
Its not uncommon to have a grievance filed by a nursing union in response to an alleged violation of the CBA with an incident involving Nurse A and a State Nursing Board Complaint filed against the Nurse A by the hospital, SNF, HHA, etc. r/t to the issue being grieved.
You may think, FU LaTonia, that's what I pay union due for and I am not consulting with or paying for an independent lawyer. It still won't hurt to have your situation reviewed by an objective party while and when the issues and incident are "hot." Just my two cents.
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