I didn't even think she might be testing her. It's definitely a possibility!
I don't remember if I shared this everyone mostly because it is embarrassing, but I got suspended for one day back in April, and someone else got terminated. She was a coworker whos life was falling apart every minute and her husband had been going through some health difficulties. She asked me to look up something in his chart (I got his permission). I did it twice for her and then never again. While It wasn't a HIPPA violation, it was a policy violation (which I really didn't know). Well, someone overheard her asking me and went to corporate compliance. Turns out she has been looking up all her family members for years. She got terminated, she showed zero remorse. I freaked the F out. I cried. My manger pretty much cried because she didn't want me to get fired.
In the end, I didn't get fired, they had to suspend me for one day and write me up. So, it turns out I am not a good fit for the job. This was a horrible lack of judgement for me which hurt my career. I just felt bad for the woman.
Well, that was super embarrassing. I am very embarrassed this ever happened. While I do think this would be a great opportunity, I don't think they would ever consider me. And my manager gave me some new tasks at the time because the other woman was gone and asked me to step up and I did. Then this woman started sneakily poaching my tasks.
Anyways, I did go out for a former coworkers going away dinner. it was really nice to hang out with some of the people I used to work on the unit with. Two of them are a couple and have been dating now for 5 years. The one works in my hospital system now. He said to me "you were always so good at clinical, do you want to go back?" I pretty much groomed the guy and was his go to in his first year. They were saying how the hospital and the people are nothing like it used to be and we reminisced about the good old days.
Today is a super busy fun day. I am only nervous about all the walking I am doing today. But it should be fun.
Still, so embarrassed reading my story, but I own up to it.
