After being gone all last week from work, part of it spent in the hospital again, I come back to my first day and feel like I've been treated so unfairly that I'm looking for a new job as we speak. I worked in a multi-specialty doctor's office. Basically an office made up of about 12 doctors, surgeons, physician assitistants... And then of course nurses, bussiness office workers, coders and so on. I am a nurse here and have been on almost 3 years. I have worked in almost every (nursing) area in this building and my boss uses me in various areas when she needs me to fill in for someone. My "main" job though is receiving electronic prescription refill requests and processing them (going through the protocol of labwork and appointments) and then sending them to the provider and telling them how many refills that person can have. Not a very hard job, but we have a lot of patients and it keeps me busy. Anyway, my direct boss used to have the same job I do before she got promoted to boss. When she had my job she got breat cancer. Because she wasn't able to come into work very well being sick and all they let her telecomute from home and do this job at home on the days she wasn't feeling well. Well since I have this job now, I have asked her many times starting back in December if I could telecomute and work from home on my "bad" days. I have been repeatedly told no. She says it's because it's not the "facilities policy" to do it that way and it would be a "HIPPA violation risk" if I were to have the computer at home with any patient information. I've always been a little bothered by her response since she was able to do the exact same job I'm doing from home before she was ever boss. Anyway...I come to work today and one of my co-workers that works across the hallway from me has been on maternity leave since last week. When I get on my computer I realize that my co-worker on maternity leave is somehow logged onto the computer system and is doing some of my work. I thought that this was a mistake and that someone was using her log-in information so I alerted my boss that I thought someone was trying to work under her name. My boss emails me back and says that my co-worker is the one working under her own name, and that she is working from home.....WORKING FROM HOME DOING MY JOB! I am furious right now!!! I have been practically begging to do some work from home so I wouldn't have to miss on my paycheck as much, and I would still be helping out my work. My mother and my boyfriend say I should take this matter to the "top", who is a surgeon that's CEO of the clinic and that I'm on good terms with. The thing is, I'm so furious right now that I almost want to just find another job. I'm not for sure what to do. I don't know how to approach this with the "top" doctor without totally making my boss mad at me. She's already playing favorites and I don't want to be treated any worse. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can approach this?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!