$8000.00 Penalty for Quiting Critical Care Nurse Residency Program Before 3 Years

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Fellow Humans:

I have an offer to enter into a Critical Care Nurse Residency Program that will give me seven months of training for critical care. However, I will need to sign a contract to stay at this particular place of employment for three years. And if I decide to leave before the three years I will have to pay a penalty of $8,000.00 for early termination of contract.

So, I would like to know other nurses opinions about this before I make the decision because I do not see it as being a very good deal.

Remember that the $8,000.00 is NOT for a signing bonus!

Happy Holidays,:D

Kevin

Specializes in Neurosciences.

Thank you to everyone so far for sharing your thoughts. Also, have a very happy holiday season.

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Specializes in SRNA.
now that i see it's s small town, i can tell you precisely what the problem is, from bitter personal experience.

that is perhaps the most presumptious statements i have ever heard. since you can tell what the problem is from knowing very little, perhaps you should start giving tarot card readings to the president of usa! i am so glad you explained it all to us.

i moved to a very small town from nyc. became a nurse. went into a unit - ltc - on which everyone, from aides to the don, is related to one another. everyone in the facility is related to one another. and they were very mean to me, who was perceived as a big old snob city outsider.

that is so biased it's ridiculous. i have lived in kc and in a small town, and there are pro's and con's to both places. and as for the "big old snob city outsider", perhaps you acted like a snob and they didn't like you. many times when people complain of many other people treating them harsh, perhaps someone should step back and realize the crowd just might be right. there will always be clique's in almost every enviroment, but to blatantly suggest that small towns are the root of this problem shows ignorance.

they can't keep people because they are tormented right off of the unit.

i'm back in that facility, but not on the floor, and am doing fine. but my boss has advanced degrees and likes that i'm going on for the msn, and doesn't think that i want her job because i am interested in learning.

this is only my experience, but if you are moving to a small town you will have a terrible time making friends - yeah, it's safe and friendly, but you will be the outsider, you will have a hard time creating a social life, and you will have a hard time fitting in on the unit, which will be full of unspoken local traditions to which you are not privy.

that is ignorance, prejudice and generalizing. you are assuming that kevin will have a negative experience based on your own experience. how dare you insinuate that small towns will cause him to not be able to make friends, or have a social life.

it may seem to you as odd, but at least they told you before you were hired and were stuck in the situation. professional executives sign contracts that sometimes has a clause about having to compensate the company for the loss of money spent on training and so forth should the employee resign before the contract is completed. there is a reason that contracts exsist. to explain stipulations to both parties involved. if you do not find the stipulations to your liking you can easily turn down the job offer.

just because i have a bad experience with a waitress of applebee's doesn't mean that someone else will.

ymmv.

i hope santa put some xanax in your stocking... i still don't see why people are getting so bent out of shape because someone shared their personal experience... posts like this contribute no benefit to the topic being discussed and it's a shame so much effort went into making such a ridiculous response so colorful...lol at least you get points for navy blue. oooh!

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Huh? I've been here for four years, and have said nothing about sophistication at all. I can say that I got a lot of grief simply because I came from a big city.

Of course there are problems in cities. This weekend, when it was snowing, I stopped the car and said to a young woman who was slogging through it, "You want a ride?" and she hopped in. That certainly wouldn't have happened where I used to live.

But to say that my take on the insular and clannish nature of small towns is a slam isn't fair. It's true. Just as I was more likely to be mugged downstate, I am more likely to be excluded up here.

That's the truth. It isn't a slam. It has taken four years to carve a niche for myself up here, and while some of it was my need to adjust to the mores here, a buttload of it was "them." The ADON is related to the med nurse who is related to one of the aides. The charge nurse is related to two of the aides. The charge on the other units is related to the MDS nurse who is married to the ADON's nephew. And on and on it goes. Do you really think that that is only me "slamming" small towns?

Coming from a very rural area- (nearest small town 7 miles, post office 3 miles, 24 hour grocery or quick stop- 35 miles away), I also found that life very clannish and cruel, reluctant to accept anyone different.

But I'm sure that there are many small towns that have more nurturing and accepting attitudes.

Funny though- my parents still live there (the boonies!) and my mother was singing the virtues of country living by discussing crime- telling me that I was more likely to be a victim of violent crime than she is, until I reminded her of the criminal that entered her secluded home a few years ago and stabbed her.

She changed the subject.

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Hey, just so you guys know, it's okay if someone twists what I meant into what I didn't mean. Happens here all the time. Small towns, y'know.

;)

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.
Hey, just so you guys know, it's okay if someone twists what I meant into what I didn't mean. Happens here all the time. Small towns, y'know.

;)

You dissin' me again, SueSquatch? :madface:

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You dissin' me again, SueSquatch? :madface:

"Hey, you look really pretty today!"

"So what are you saying? That I looked lousy yesterday?!"

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.
"Hey, you look really pretty today!"

"So what are you saying? That I looked lousy yesterday?!"

I'm sayin' your butt looks enormous in the outfit you wore yesterday... :saint:

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i'm sayin' your butt looks enormous in the outfit you wore yesterday... :saint:

:D

arrrrgggh!

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.
:D

arrrrgggh!

Have ya ever been evaluated for that smiley dyslexia, Sue? ;)

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$8000 is a bargain! It is very expensive to train a nurse!

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