Anyone resign due to hostile work environment?

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Has anyone else here decided to resign rather than continue working in a hostile work environment due to physician "chaos creating" or control issues?

I'd like to hear your story!

Specializes in Tele/ICU/MedSurg/Peds/SubAcute/LTC/Alz.

I just did it myself. I have been through it before and let it last for months. I didn't want to have to be miserable going to work anymore.

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Specializes in ICU, Peds, M/S, HH, PACU.

Brownms46: I think I know the place you're talking about- I used to work there in Tele! Does Austin sound familiar??

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I resigned from a hell hole once. I was not the only one. All of the nurses except one full time and one part time nurse resigned (the male was fired) within a few weeks of each other. The place went to hell because the DON and administrator both left within a couple of weeks of each other to take jobs at another LTC facility and we were left with a weak ADON who became the Acting DON. The DSD, an LVN, was using her influence to run the place. She would pit the CNAs against the nurses and made everyone's life hell. It was very difficult for me to get a job following this because of the blacklisting. I later found out from a former co-worker that the LVN who was setting all of the nurses up for failure was eventually gotten rid of by the new DON. She got what she deserved.

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Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice.

Tried to.. they're holding me hostage till the end of May or else I have to pay a ransom of 3 grand... which I do not have.

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I've quit 3 times in the last year.

1st one was in a medical centre, owned by a company who had a chain of these places and couldn't keep nurses. I was to be the RN but found when I got there that I was not alowed to do anything or see anyone without the doctors permission and assessment first, the job amounted to maybe taking a blood pressure or sticking a simple dressing on, I was to report to the receptionist all work I had done and found she was my supervisor (no training or qualifications) she signed my time sheet to get paid and I was to relieve her for her breaks etc whenever she wanted. I was told that I was also to free up receptionists time so they could do more important things by taking over the cleaning of all the offices etc!! Whe I was introduced to the doctor he said nothing - just looked me up and down and turned his back. That was the end of that one before it really started.

2nd one was a skills update programme for RNs who had been working but not in acute areas for a while, to enable them to become familiar and competent with the technology, care and routines etc, therefore recruiting RNs quickly into these acute areas with severe staff shortages. As I had been in community for while (as a nurse practitoner), I thought I was doing the right thing not jumping into a job outside my current scope of practice and took advantage of being buddied with another RN for a few weeks in order to safely update skills. However, I got assigned all the ''buddy'' RN's heaviest, elderly, post op orthopeadic patients who had no acute needs now, just personal care but were awaiting placement in nursing homes. So all I basically did was feed, toilet, shower and make beds. That was the end of that one - what's the use if I wasn't learning and just giving the ''buddies'' an easy ride. On that ward unqualified staff were checking morphine and epidural infusions etc with students - scary.

Last one was last week, when I voiced concern about doctors children being brought in and ''helping'' having access to patient records and entering test results onto computer etc, while Doc saw his patients. I was accused of being a trouble maker and spoken to like a naughty child so I quit. That to me is a major legal issue. Oh well, here I am again - lots of work around though, maybe I'll have a lttle break.

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ceecel.dee said:
Has anyone else here decided to resign rather than continue working in a hostile work environment due to physician "chaos creating" or control issues?

I'd like to hear your story!

Yes, I have. My story is under a thread called "Hey you with the trashy blonde hair."

And I'm feeling better because I resigned. Life is too short to take abuse from anyone....

Emma

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I was in a very hostile environment. I was ready to resign, but as luck would have it, she left first. I look back on my experience and wonder how I ever survived it. I guess I was stronger than I gave myself credit. I do know that I was very stressed and sick during this time and I would not have been able to continue working there if she hadn't quit.

I will do my best to never let someone do that to me again. I know there will be some who will try, but life is too short to let people play these games with your life. I do believe in the saying "You reap what you sow".

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I just did, worked my last day yesterday. I am so traumatized after everything that coworkers did to me, not even sure I will come back to work any time soon.

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Sorry to hear this Mystic Fish 0526. I hope it turns out to be a blessing in disguise. When I'm being abused by a coworker, patient, or anyone for that matter, I just tell myself that "What goes around, comes around". These people have pathetic lives and they want others to be just as miserable. Good luck and take time for yourself.:)

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Specializes in Operating Room.

I've left due to nasty coworkers/administration.. I liked this place at first but then they started having money issues. There was also an undercurrent of putting new nurses through hazing-we were just expected to tolerate it. The final straw for me came when the nurse manager said she had gotten a call from a traveling nurse agency about me(I had filled out one of those questionnaires back when I was a tech) and after that day, I could do nothing right. Didn't matter that I had excellent evals and a couple of commendations in my file. It didn't matter that I worked 32 hours a week for them while in nursing school and I took call to boot. Didn't matter that they paid me the same rate as someone with no OR experience while previous people who went from tech to nurse started a step above new grad.

So I left. I now work in bigger hospital where the pay is better and they're unionized. Never thought I'd say this, but I prefer the bigger hospitals because at least they're upfront that you are one of many employees. These smaller hospitals want you believe that everyone there is "family" but that's crap. While I like my job, it is just that, a job. It's not my life and I'm the type of person who doesn't care that I've worked someplace 5, 10 years and have buttloads of vacation time, seniority etc. If I'm not happy in my day to day life, then I move on without looking back. :cheers:

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