I got fired today

Well, after giving it much thought, I guess that I am better off being out of there. Honestly, I had my reservations about staying there for the fact, that the dr. is a heavy smoker and smokes in his office. I would be very nauseated from the smell of the smoke. And, I am a light smoker, but never smoke while at work. I would not want to smell like smoke around my patients, especially allergy patients.

Also, his practice has greatly diminished over the years. And, he is having financial problems due to a divorce. In addition, his son and his daughter-in-law worked there previously. The nurse who was training me, told me the son was fired because his father found out that he stole money. Also, she told me that his son and DIL both had a drug problem. I was thinking while she was telling me this, a little too much information. This nurse also told me about the receptionist's personal life. If I had to take a test on their lives, I would ace it. Sorry, I got off topic here, my original point of this paragraph was that he was very grumpy,too. He got very agitated over having too many patients at one time and yelled at the receptionist for booking too many patients. He yellled that he had too much paper work to do, and he yelled this while there were two patients sitting in the waiting room. And, he would complain out of the other side of his mouth, that he needed more patients because he needed the money.

Now, for some complaints about the nurse who was retiring and training me. Another thing that I remembered while dwelling on this was that there was another patient that called and complained about her allergy shot bothering her. The other nurse said that the dr. probably needs to adjust her dosage because she knew that it was right because she made the serum herself. I don't think that she would ever admit to the fact that she may have made a mistake anywhere. But, I have caught a mistake of hers. (But didn't point it out to her) This nurse had written down on a patient's medication record, a medication they were never prescribed. The pt. asked me, if the dr. was prescribing it because she never took it. She wanted to know why it was on her chart. I told her that I didn't know, but there was no other record of her taking that medication or that it was prescribed to her. And, this nurse made a big deal about the receptionist giving her the wrong chart for a patient with the same first name. This nurse went on all day about it, pointing out the receptionist's mistake. I believe this nurse has some strong narcisstic traits.

This nurse had made me feel "stupid" for not catching on quick enough. I was there for three weeks, but she caught on to the job after only two weeks. I had one patient a week to do testing on. The first one that I did, she commented on the good job with my intradermal injections. But, the last two she found fault with and was standing over my shoulder the whole time. It was very embarrassing to me the way she talked to me in front of the patient. She kept apologizing to the patient, and said they were very patient for being a guinea pig. And, she told me that I should know how to read the testing after three weeks. (three patients) It almost seemed like she was trying to find fault with anything that she could. I became very irritated when she monitored every IM shot that I gave. I reminded her that I was quite experienced, as I worked in a psych hospital for five years and gave plenty of them. And, she had the audacity to follow the patient and asked if it hurt.

I think that she may have convinced the dr. that it was my fault. And, this dr. was good friends with a dr. that had malpractice suit against him for a fatal error. The nurse was blamed for the mistake, and the dr. told me that he couldn't afford the liability of keeping me.

Okay, now I am done rationalizing about being fired! It just really stings and makes one feel incompetent.