Salvation Army Clitheroe

Background      My bosses at Clitheroe made near constant serious mistakes and errors in judgment. They do not like to be corrected.

• Bipolar people are sensitive to staggered shifts. That issue was discussed with the Dual Diagnosis Director and the Residential Director before I was hired.  

• At the bottom is the first item in my second evaluation.

• Here are hours worked during two separate 3 day periods.  The time period on the right was supposedly chosen by the supervisor, as a period in which to scrutinize my chart entries.

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• It was less than once a month that any staff member would find any significant contraband. Most of the contraband that was found, was found ... by me.  There were no staff members as successful as me, at finding contraband.

• She referred to one specific incident that she refuses to discuss, aside from writing it. There had been a heroin user from whom I took three syringes, which I gave to the nurse.  Some time after the client left, a staff member (who was upset at me) said that another client said that the first client might have had pills. 

• Both the supervisor and the other staff member  knew the accusation would be "made into fact" if a supervisor wrote it down. There was no way to dispute it within Clitheroe.

• There was one client who I admitted as an alcoholic. He said his only problem was with alcohol, and so thats the information that went on his admit sheet. Later, in private conversation, he admitted that he was addicted to opiates. He said that for years he had been 'doctor shopping' to find M.D.s who would prescribe more opiates for him. He had been consuming large quantities of prescription opiates for years. That information was very important both to nurses and to whichever PNA did his treatment plan, so I put it in his chart. This was the main entry used to justify the supervisor's charting comment. She refused to discuss the matter further. Again, she knew there was no way for me to challenge it within Clitheroe.

• Other chart entries were apparently chosen at random. There was nothing wrong with them, and the supervisor refused to discuss them. Also... they did not seem to come from 5/17 to 5/19.  Most charting is done in the daytime. I had worked only nights in Detox that week.  On 5/19 I had worked the day in residential, where no charting is done.

• 4/17 to 4/19 were all double shifts, with a staff meeting on the 18th at which I had offended the supervisor in front of all staff. I did a lot of charting those three days.

• An educated guess... The Residential Director knew the effects that staggering shifts might have on me. He had been trying for some time to get rid of me . He probably  told her to pull my work "from the 17th to the 19th", and told her that she would find mistakes. But she jumbled the months. She didn't find any mistakes, so she invented some and put the dates that he suggested would be problematic.

• I tried to get her to talk about the entries. She would not.  

• If my charting were compared to that of other employees, including the supervisor, the accusation would be mind blowing. The quality of charting in Detox was horrendous.