Just got fired -

ComeTogether, LPN · Jun 20, 2013

Thank you!!!
I applied at a facility that I worked at two years ago and they called me two hours later saying come in for an interview tomorrow (today) at ten am and plan to stay for new employee orientation from eleven am to three pm!
My fingers are crossed. I put that I got fired and will explain what happened at my last job...
How would you?!

Less is more in this type of situation, but you got the job, so it doesn't matter :-)

For any future jobs I would just say you were discharged due to a personal conflict or something of that nature. Personally, I wouldn't use the word "fired". Especially in a right-to-work state, they don't need a reason to "fire" you, and sometimes it just doesn't work out. That's all I would say. :-) Glad to hear you got the job, and I am also really glad you have taken our constructive criticism as that.....constructive. As I said before, that shows a lot about what kind of person you are and what kind of nurse you will be. :-) Best wishes to you.

Are you still moving to NC?

blondebabe0625 · Jun 20, 2013

Thank you. Yes I'm still going to move to NC this August.

I'm going to schedule a CNA 1 challenger test tomorrow for NC. I hope to get a job there soon after I move.

ComeTogether, LPN · Jun 22, 2013

Thank you. Yes I'm still going to move to NC this August.
I'm going to schedule a CNA 1 challenger test tomorrow for NC. I hope to get a job there soon after I move.

I don't live far from there and I know there is a demand for CNA's. You should be fine.

LeeLeeTheGPN · Jun 22, 2013

As it seems like your situation has been rectified (by getting another, and hopefully better job with better protocols) and you have received more than enough constructive criticism, I just want to say congratulations on your new job and good luck on all of your future endeavors. You do seem to have a very positive disposition, and I hope that translates into a successful nursing career for you. God speed.

blondebabe0625 · Jul 1, 2013

Thank you everyone :-)

MamaofAshy · Jul 2, 2013

Maybe this job field is not for you hun..

allnurses Guide · Jul 2, 2013

Maybe this job field is not for you hun..

Or maybe it is.

Who really knows?

Sometimes we get off to a rocky start, but with time and the right work environment, we take off and eventually do well.

I had people placing bets that I wouldn't last a year as an aide.

I lasted 23.

Who knew?

blondebabe0625 · Jul 3, 2013

Haha. It definitely is my field. :-)

MedChica · Jul 3, 2013

It was on Sunday day shift, I reported it to my then supervisor who was the med aid who brushed it off and said to not worry about it!

Tell the nurse. That's the thing. I'm always hearing from the med aides and nurse aides about verbal/sexual abuse 'after the fact'.

I guess, it doesn't occur to them to 'report' these types of things to me? So, I'll whip out my pen and ask, "Wait - what happened? What did he say...?"

Charting on behavior is about as important as charting about bedsores. We want to help our residents. If they're cursing or agitated, perhaps it's a psych issue. Perhaps it's medical.

Maybe they're sick. Maybe they have a UTI or something.

...but most of the time, they're not and in that case? We chart it to protect our staff. Just because they're our residents - our elders - doesn't mean that they get to curse and fly around or speak/treat our aides any way that they want.

That sort of thing should NOT be tolerated.

Boundaries and rules for respectful behavior must be established...ESPECIALLY, if that resident's alert and oriented (to place, time, self).

If a resident's screaming, cursing and hitting at the staff? These behaviors must be documented in the chart including their expletive-filled statements (in quotes). I also make a note of it in the 24hr report, eg., increased agitation/combativeness, etc...

...or how else will anyone know that there's a problem?

Also, when you're dealing with a verbally abusive resident? It might help to take another aide in the room with you as a witness. We instruct our aides to do the same at the facility in which I work.

These residents could say anything but who would the DON and family members believe?

Poochiewoochie · Jul 8, 2013

How can an incompetent patient get me fired like that? She has dementia and I was doing my job right. I have always been sweet to her and the other residents. The coworker who wrote me up had been working there for the past 7 years.

My Mom had dementia and she was always saying strange things to the nurses and CNAs and had a lot of conspiracy theories going on in her demented head. She could also be nasty. She would tell them to go f themselves yet they always took it with a grain of salt except for a few who had no clue that dementia patients have no filter when it comes to what they say and tried to confront her when she was nasty and using foul language. IMO a lot people who work in dementia units are not properly trained as to the workings of the demented mind and things like this tend to be blown out of proportion or the resident is bullied by the person they said it too because they got offended. To confront her over what she called you was the wrong thing she demented people can NOT be reasoned with and have no clue that what they just said it "wrong".

I'm a little bit confused as to why everyone is saying she used a racial slur against you. Yes, "spook" can be a racial slur but maybe she used it in the way someone uses it to describe a ghost. To assume it was used as a racial slur is unfair to the resident.

If you're going to work with dementia residents you have to be prepared for the nastiness. It's part of the disease. People who work with them need thick skins and also know it's just the disease talking and not to take it personally when one says something offensive.

blondebabe0625 · Oct 1, 2013

Absolutely :-)!

mintygirl · Oct 2, 2013

Absolutely :-)!

I don't understand why they fired you, at best you just should have not been allowed to have that pt. What you can do that many don't realize, is chart on a piece of paper and then have the RN sign off on it after you explain the situation, definitely follow up - things like that. When I had a PT fall she claimed I pushed her out of the chair (I wanted to CRY the accusation alone made me feel so horrible as a nurse), but it was next to impossible and later when asked about it her story was inconsistent, she forgot about it and even came up to hug me and said I was the best nurse she ever had. Later on an RN told me that she had a change in medication and her behavior had changed erratically because I wasn't the only one she complained and lied on. Remember that no facility will stand behind you though, even when your an lvn or rn.