07-3-2009 - Problems with work

My mood while writing this blog: depressed

I'm starting to feel like I won't have this job much longer because of all the drama that's going on. I bust my buns to get my job done and it's a job I don't like but I am doing it for my baby. I'm a nurse, not a receptionist and I haven't even done ANY nursing work. Only receptionist work. I feel like they are trying to find a reason to fire me because I am pregnant and they don't think i can handle the work so they are being mean and aweful and trying to get me out. I'm not allowed to leave until every single thing is finished and I am supposed to leave at 5:30 but I sometimes don't get out of there until almost 7:00 and then they just keep bringing me more work and smiling at me when they drop it off and then I can't leave until that's done. I actually have to have someone sign a piece of paper stating that they walked around and checked all of my work to make sure it's done.

A few weeks ago, after I first started the job, it was 5:30 and I was supposed to leave to go home. I left and there were still a few charts that needed to be filed. I'm guessing like 10 charts or something like that. I just thought I would get them when I came in the next morning. Well, I got in the next day and the main doctor had thrown a fit and made her niece (it's all family there. Her niece is the "medical assistant" that didn't even go to school for it, her mother is the office manager, and her sister also works there.) create a checklist of everything that needs to be done before I leave. It wouldn't be so bad if they would constantly bring more stuff for me to do and I'm not able to leave until I do it. My day consists of pulling the lab reports that come in over night as soon as a get there, there are about 30 of them each morning, checking out patients in the process, pulling all the charts for 2 days in advance ( we have 3 doctors, the nurse schedule, and the ultrasound schedule), filing the 60 something charts they bring me, still checking out patients, prepping the charts that I pulled, pulling more labs that come in at lunch time, filing more charts that keep getting dumped, pulling reports for the doctors and finding the charts, more filing, more checking out, answering the phones, and making the appointments. I try to do all of this stuff at once. Most of the time right when I go to leave and have everything done and I am about to get my paper signed, the doctor brings more work and just smiles at me. It wouldn't be so bad if I could just finish my stuff like I do by 5:30 and just leave but I can't. I can't leave until EVERYTHING is done. I don't even see why they give us set work hours because it's almost impossible to leave at the set time. Last night, I left at 6:20 and I was one of 3 of us that were still at the office. It was the doctor, the person that likes to think she is the manager because she walks around barking orders at everyone while the manager is no where to be found. The mananger is almost never there and when she is, she is playing with her daughter, the doctor's, horribly bad kids. I swear our office is like a daycare to the doctor's 3 kids. I like the fact that it's an OBGYN office. The hardest thing is that I have to see all 3 doctors there. I LOVE the other 2. They are greatand treat you like you are human. I have to see the doctor I don't like her and there is a possibility she may delivery my baby. I don't want to leave there because of the free care I am getting with my pregnancy.

She even yelled at me infront of a patient. Our patients always bring their babies to their post partum check ups and when they go in for their exams, the bring the babies to one of us up front. Well I had a baby this day and I was checking out a lady and the doctor wanted me to call and make her an appointment at another office. She gave me the phone number she wanted me to call for that office but it was wrong so I told her. She then came to my desk and made me get up out of my chair and while the patient was standing there she said, "Why am I all of a sudden the receptionist? I"m supposed to be the doctor, not the receptionist". Well, i called and there was more than one doctor in that office apparantly but I didn't know because that's the number she gave me to call, the whole time she is standing next to me while I am calling to make the appointment. I was trying to make the appt and the doctor asked which doctor I was making it for. She then yelled at me when I asked and they transfered me to a different line because I was making it for the wrong doctor. They didn't say there was more than one doctor when i called and she didn't tell me either. So I assumed I was making it with the correct doctor. well she just loved that one. She started yelling at me and looked at me like I was an idiot and everyone in the office heard her. Including the patient that was standing right there infront of me. She told me that I should verify who I was making the appt with and that anyone should know to do that and said a bunch of other stuff which I really didn't hear because i was about to cry. She walked off and then I foudn out the office didn't take the pt's insurance so I let the mean doctor know. She then walked over there and took my papers and said, "Just forget it, I'll give this to a real nurse to handle. A nurse that knows what she is doing and someone that's not just sitting around holding a baby." I wanted to cry. I am a NURSE! They just don't let me doing any nursing work. I'm the "check out girl" that's what I'm known as. She's never even said my name. Just calls me the "check out girl".

Then I was told by a friend at the office yesterday that the office manager told her she is not allowed to help me do any of my work. She's not allowed to help me file, find anything, or pull any charts because they don't think I can handle it and want to see if I can. My friend told her that she doesn't really help me and that the only time she does my work is after I leave and more stuff is brought for me to do. Bitch office maager told her she doesn't even want her doing that because she knows I can't handle it. I really think she is lookiing for a reason to fire me because I am pregnant.

The other day, I was working on a project, making a new medical records release form because ours was horrible and the wanna be manager asked me to do it. Well, the office manager walks by my desk and asked me if I was really working or just pretending to be doing something while just sitting there on my butt. I told her what I was doing and asked her if she wanted to see it and she sarcastically just said "NO!" Even after I was finished, I was just told it looks just ok. I brought it home to my husband and showed him the before and after and told him what was going on and he said mine was a dramatic improvement over the last one.

I really don't know what to do. I feel like no one really likes me there and that I am constantly walking on egg shells. my husband came to my last ultrasound the other day and I introduced him to the manager and her drones and they were just rude. They looked at us with a fake smile and turned right back around and kept talking. I feel like they are trying to push me out but making my life hell. I know this stress isn't good for the baby. I am CONSTANTLY running around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I constantly come home wanting to cry, having a terrible back ache, headache, and minor cramping in my stomach. I know its because I am doing too much work and pushing myself too hard but I don't have a choice. All for $14.00 per hour as a NURSE! I hate being a nurse not being able to do nursing work.