Wow graystreet that is rough. My brother is an ICU nurse and my mom works in the PACU so I feel like I understand some of the dynamics based on what they have shared with me. Sometimes there is such drama in nursing. Not with good nurses like you but with the little gossipy ones. I feel that the gossipy nasty ones are more prone to mistakes because they are busy being petty and missing important things with patients. You will appreciate this: two weeks ago my husband was schedule for ablasion in the OR. Everything went fine. When it comes time to get dressed in his patient bag was a pair of bloody women's underwear in a biohazard bag. I was like "um.. excuse me...there is bloody underwear in the patient belongings' bag..." his nurse was mortified. My mom happened to be charge nurse but handed the problem off to the Nursing supervisor because we were related. The next day the nurse who did it called to apologize. What had happened (my mom shared) The pre-op nurses had a woman going in to have a gyn procedure and the patient was told to remove everything. When she got into the OR they realized she had underwear on, removed it and gave it to her nurse who put it in my husbands' bag. His stuff was labeled and the her underwear was labeled. The problem wasnt so much that it went into the wrong bag (although it wasnt good) it was that the preop nurse didnt check her patient and just shuffled her through and handed her off. My mom has a history with this one nurse because they carpooled to work in the snow one time and this nurse left her at the hospital.. so of course out of all people this could happen to it was her daughter...

I do not know what this has to do with your situation but my point is good nurses sometimes get overlooked because they work with nasty, gossipy nurses who act like they know everything and like drama. You just keep doing the next right thing and do not worry about that b**ch. As long as your ducks are in a row and you document every little thing I feel like you will be ok. I hope you dont think I am invalidating or trivializing your experience I just thought you would appreciate the story.
xxxooo