My biggest mistake was believing that the administration had the patients best interests at heart. I’m all about patient advocacy and standards of care. This was my strength, and I was totally committed to my position and need for process improvement ; this is when I learned the hard way that this hospital does not support quality care and initiatives. It is when the facility fell into jepordy with the state that I realized that finger-pointing and blame were to occur. Despite all my best efforts, prior to and leading up to these deficiencies within the Facility, the recommendation I’d given and all of the supportive data shared with administration was not addressed and as predicted, they are failing. Of course, I never in a million years thought they would try and place blame on me. I was committed to being a change agent as I do my job well. Apparently that doesn’t matter to the administration ( to call them leaders would be a gross misuse of the word) . There had to be a fall guy. That was me. I was one of the staff that fell from grace. Despite all of my efforts and commitment and loyalty and hundreds of hours beyond the call of duty. Shameful really.