I am a registered nurse working in one of the State hospitals in California, I brought up issues to my supervisors because of patient safety-related issues because of the manipulation of some nurses with patient acuity scoring due to their intent to make easy overtime. My supervisors discredit my report, so I blew the whistle, hoping those whistleblower protection law will protect me. Now, from being registered nurse, I am now re-assigned in the laundry department because I was accused of "misconduct". A misconduct that should have been done to the suspicious act done by the bully nurse:(
Sad, and traumatic, but that's what you get when you blew the whistle. The union didnt even represent me, because it looks like my supervisors really did a good job damaging my credibility, and it seems like the union rep is also judging me that I was the one looking for trouble. I have a lot of evidence, but evidence is useless if nobody even bothers to look or investigate it.