Need advice about dealing with an undeserved bad rap

[chris_at_lucas_RN]

Hey--

I am a fulltime employee in a hospital so desperate for nurses that they recruited 100 NURSING STUDENTS WHO DIDN"T EVEN HAVE TO HAVE THEIR PRE-REQs done!

Tuition will be paid in full, in advance, in exchange for working for these NONEMPLOYEES for 2 years (at good pay, I might add). As of January, employees don't even have to wait for their tuition reimbursement--it starts the first day you start to work.

Problem: I'm a nurse extern, worked for them for 7 months like a dog, can't find a slot! My resume is impressive, I get called in for interviews, those go fine (one mgr even offered me her hand and said as soon as the paperwork was done she'd get me on the schedule) and then wham. NOthing. No offers. The hand-offerer even called to say she'd hired someone "who fits better with my unit."

The only thing after the application, resume and interview are the chats with previous mgrs.

I was in an interview a couple of weeks ago and heard the guy who was interviewing me tell another mgr, "yeah, so and so's okay, he knows his job, but he would disappear sometimes. Always playing games at the computer. So if you can't find him, that's where he is."

Do you think that poor guy got the job?

I can't get anyone to tell me anything, but there are some serious missing pieces to the puzzle here. If I didn't get along with everyone, if I didn't do a good job, if my 2 mgrs hadn't all but begged me to stay on their units, I'd say maybe somebody had a legitimate beef. But this is not the case at all.

Anybody got any suggestions? I just got off their job site and found that the jobs I've interviewed for have been filled--because they aren't there anymore.

It's getting so I just get sick at heart at the thought of interviewing one more time.

Any ideas? In my baser moments I think about hiring an attorney..... I'd think this would be slander.

[PMHNP10]

An elderly, dying patient was getting chest percussions. During this procedure alot of noises were being made, RTs hand slapping his back and him moaning. As I heard from a fellow coworker, the statement was made that it sounded as though I was masterbating. I'll be the first to admit I laughed when my friend initally told me about the comment, because it was coming from her. The more I thought about it that night, though, the more offended I became because of who initally made the comment. Again, I should have brought it to managements attention that morning, but I didn't know I was going to have such trouble transferring, and at first, I didn't want to leave on a sour note.

[Agnus]

Originally posted by chris_at_lucas

Okay, I actually can't even get shifts assigned. I haven't worked in about 5 weeks. So I am not actually on the payroll in that they are not paying me (on account of my not having worked).

I am not obligated to stay with them once I get my RN. They, however, are presently obligated to reimburse my tuition

Ah ha:idea: Don't you see. Their obligation to you only continues if you stay employed there. If they can get you to quit they don't have to pay your tuition.

Not giving you shifts is a way of pushing you to make the decision to quit.

[Sharon]

Chris,

Do you really need to work or can you get by with just taking the tuition reimbursement? If you can I would be "available for shifts", get the tuition and find a second job. I had a problem with getting called off of my assign shifts and not making any money. I did some great part time jobs this way while in school were I did use a lot of my nursing skills, Park Ranger, disaster relief case manager, community damage assessment, and community health educator, contract nursing policy and procedure writer for the Area Agency on Aging, etc.

When I got tired of the longest running bout of "we have shifts but today we don't need you" I filed an unemployment claim.