I work in the Sterile Processing at a big-name hospital in a major city. I was a traveling healthcare worker and accepted a traveling supervisor position at this hospital in June 2022.
As a side note, I am very proficient in my job and all of the certifications that I have for it. I can do absolutely everything in the department and more and I’ve proven and shown this time and time again everywhere I go, every hospital I’ve worked at, and at this current place where I just accepted a full-time position under the same title.
Where I’m struggling is that since June, none of the staff were told my purpose and who I am. It wasn’t until a month ago that they realized I was a supervisor. They thought I was just a nurse from the operating room. Well, I was hired to supervise the weekend manager, I was just told I was hired to help him out and so on all the weekends that he is taking off, the staff won’t listen to me because they were never told that I’m a supervisor.
I thought this would be cleared up all these months later when I got hired because, to be honest, they treat traveling healthcare workers different, so by officially hiring me, it solidifies everything, but still, staff don’t know who I am, don’t know my name, and the management that has hired me and that I’ve been working with still undermine that I can do everything even though I’ve shown them physically and on paper.
I wasn’t feeling good as a traveler and I’m not feeling good now. I’m very knowledgeable and I have a lot to offer, but I feel silenced and suppressed.