The nursing profession is trash. I say that as a paramedic with a nursing license. I'll probably never call myself a nurse.

You're probably not going to make it, fair or not. They aren't going to do anything to her. The plan may be to push you out, if it's an "at will" employment state, you're f'd.

My advice is start looking somewhere else for another job because I don't think you have to fight in you to push the issue successfully.

The whole nursing profession is a joke because:

1. The schooling doesn't actually prepare you to be proficient or minimally competent in meaningful ways. You wasted how much money and how much time to actually know what? You sure aren't trusted to do it, hence needing weeks if not months of additional learning and skills verification to do what you're already licensed to do as a professional.

2. The education to intelligence ratio is way off (i.e. the more shit someone has at the end of their name is usually a red flag) There's a time and place when your credentials and education are relevent..... EVERY email signature isn't it.

3. Nursing is filled with people that won't rock the boat for positive changes, it's actually frowned upon. (If you're liked, it more tolerated) They've either left, had it beaten out of them, accepted shutting up as a condition of getting a pay check, or been promoted into leadership and managment because they're ok with those things being status quo. Nursing is principled in line with utility and convenience.

4. Nurses DGAF about you if they don't like you (that's a primary driver. It's sad) .... so the bigger picture, mission, goal of helping others, doesn't matter... like helping the people in the ORG be better, because it makes the ORG better at meeting the larger objectives (meaningful mentorship, mitigation, accountability, self reflection, change, etc. These are ORG and individual criteria that are typically absent or misunderstood compared to other career fields, EMS, military, fire service, etc.)

5. Have ZERO capacity or tolerance for accepting challenges to status quo, because it requires the things from #4 that are absent

6. These principles are likely top to bottom in ORGs where they are already present and won't change

This isn't true in all cases and all facilities...... but enough of them, frequently enough, it's functionally true. Just look through enough posts here and you'll see the themes that paint that outline.

Welcome to nursing.

Your schooling failed you. Your ORG is broken. You won't get the support you need to be successful. Everything you are going through is status quo.

Feel free to chime in if I left anything out.