jobless: new honest advice

[Big Smurf2007]

ok- this goes back to my last post i hope i did this right... been so long.... well, i quit the ltc facility i was with last year.... needing a job asap i was rehired in dec... new hall new people ...2 days training... "retraining" lpn thats been there over 30 days... she and i worked well .... did nite shifts work with our own ..other halls having extra nur while we get new admit/readmit/ send outs and dont get help.... worked 14 hour shift no lunch, no break busting our hump....no help Don tells me """ you're a good nurse'""' heres the prob... i wnet back to this job without problems.... well here comes trouble> my childs sitter ( my mom inlaw) is found unresponsive on floor... has another heart cath i have 2 miss days b/c she in hosp for like a week.... ne3xt my kid is sick with pneumonia.... shesh out with her there.... me with unrelieved cp x 6days ( yes- i wnet 2 work like that) then i was admitt4ed and echo found lesion on LV... to9ld'''' just to watch it...." have sl nitro have had to use it..." selft pay no insureance ....then child has strept throat with temp 102 and red throat tonsils almost covering airway..... md put on atb clears up in 1wek on way to work i have cp episode where er decided to tell me i have hx of anxiety and gerd gives me full doses of : morphine, zofran...after i told them ( my mom there) not to.... still nau and they give dose of phergan only to relase me a couple of hours later mom watching BP & vs drop 80/40s : er director and nurse and mom have to hold me to get into w/c b/c i cant even stand up....zonked...... got home at 12 mom couldnt wake me... ANYWAY

while i was out those 2 days .... don calls me on her cell to terminiate me...) ... i say ok call charge to see if they told here and took me off sched ( by the ways : i asked for that wknd off family was to have procedure done)

she said she didnt and i told her to write it down i quit..... question was i wrong? now i need job and have sucky hx : i didnt ask to be sick or other stuff and i asked don to drop qhours since hospt and she refused....each time...am i jsut lazy ?how do i handle this ? i was rehired and fired? or do i say quit?

[caliotter3]

Good luck with your new job!

[yadda_yadda_yadda, LPN, LVN]

First, let's clarify that you didn't quit. The Director of Nurses terminated you.

Your call to the facility, speaking to the charge nurse doesn't erase the DON's earlier call placed to you.

Like other's have said, simply be honest in any future interviews. I recently experienced something similar, after 16 years...we got a new supervisor who was a flake. She carried a baggie full of mixed narcotics around in her purse, nibbling on them like candy, ran criminal & financial background checks on our residents from the office computer...using her own credit card & TALKING ABOUT IT to everyone @ work...she mixed meds in food, lied about what work she did and didn't do---and I just got a belly full of it in the middle of a shift.

I quietly asked for someone to count off with me & take report & walked over to the DON's office & told her I wouldn't be back.

I arrived home & called the State Abuse Hot-line on the facility & have never regretted doing so. ---( A L-O-T more went on than what I've mentioned above)

Meanwhile, after reality set @ home, I had to devise a plan for future interviews.

I was 100% honest with my interviewer: I told them that I was neck-deep in unethical nursing at a place I dearly loved and my concerns fell onto the deaf ears of management. I candidly shared that I no longer desired to "be painted with the same brush" as the nurses who's nursing philosophy wasn't consistent with my own. I then went on to describe my dependability, compassion & dedication--which meant nothing when I became a staunch patient advocate.

I concluded my interview by saying, "I certainly hope that my candid honesty doesn't extinguish my hopes for getting this position. I am honest & hope that trait is of value to facilities looking for reliable nurses"

I was offered the job before getting up out of the chair.

You'll be fine.:icon_hug:

[Big Smurf2007]

thank u all posters:yeah: i really want to get things ironed out.( my life). actually having a job that works around me-that is nice.