Where do you apply if you are off to a bad start as a new nurse? I was fired during orientation from my first job. It was a poor fit for a new grad. Second job I quit after a month and I am now seriously regretting it even though I was so sure it was the right decision. I was in over my head at a nursing home and I was truly worried about safety issues, my license, and being sued. My grandmother died in a nursing home due to serious neglect and was part of a big dollar lawsuit so I take this stuff seriously. I had already heard from other nurses there that the facility had been involved in a law suit. I was only working very part time so I put my notice in and decided to cut my losses.
Now of course I am struggling to get anyone to hire me with this job history. No job history was better than this. I have seriously contemplated leaving both jobs off my application, but one I really just don't feel good about that. I feel that's lying and not how I want to start my career. Two, I am concerned about it showing up on a background check, but honestly the first reason is the biggest reason. I quit the nursing home job because of ethics and safety and kind of made a pledge to myself that I would not compromise my ethics going forward ever again.
Not sure what type of jobs to apply to that I stand the best chance of getting hired at with my job history. I busted my butt getting through school and am so discouraged right now. I know it's my own fault. I should have spent more time making sure I really was qualified for the first job and I should have taken the time to ask about typical staffing ratio and job responsibilities. Ugh!!! Now what. Relocating is not an option. My husband makes too much money for us to up and move. Pay is not important right now. Hell, I'd do an unpaid internship if it'd get me the job. Best suggestions for places willing to take a chance on employees like me. I do have a BSN and have 5 years of employment at my previous employment (however I was self employed) before this so I really truly am not a job hopper and do stick through on my commitments.
Woot! I applied to 5 places on Thursday afternoon. Already got an email back from someone who would like to set up an interview! Going to try my hardest not to blow this. Still could use some tips in what to say in an interview.
Look up what Nurse Beth wrote and follow her advice.
Good luck with your interview! See, the people here are very scary and scared me so much that it put me into basically a depression. I ended up getting a good job, and you will too.
If you dont get everything done you should pass along in report for the next shift. Then just intial and circle in the MAR, TAR, whatever so it is still sogned, but stating it did not get done.
Some places just have only one nurse and only one shift in which the nurse is working, and that one nurse is in charge of 60-100 people with only non-licensed staff on hand the next shift who cannot do the charting for the nurse. You haven't seen the things that some companies are capable of doing when they know their employees really need the job. Things don't always happen the way you imagine.
Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
You are basically rebuking OP for sticking to her ethics. I remember I posted with a similar concern and faced similar accusations and I eventually got a GOOD RN JOB WHICH DIDN'T ABUSE THEIR PATIENTS AND WAS FAIR TO THEIR EMPLOYEES.
I'm not rebuking anyone or making accusations; however, the "My license is at risk" mantra is tremendously overused and dramatized. Nurses generally do not lose their licensure over issues involving safety, shoddy patient care, or sentinel events.
I'm glad you eventually secured employment that you seem to enjoy.
I quit two jobs due to illegal and unsafe practices and now I work in a good (non acute care) environment with good treatment of their patients where they actually have safe practices (and pay). The people on this website were mostly and frightening and acted like I was some entitled spoiled person for not wanting to work somewhere with ridiculously unsafe practices. Nurse Beth makes a good post. Reformat your resume and follow her advice. You will get a job, but it could take 6-8 months. Take this time off to aggressively pursue a job that you know you will be content in.
What kind of facility are you working at now and how did you explain in interviews why you left?
I work in community health. For job 1 I said "I was offered job 2". I quit job 2 and gave an honest but vague answer when they asked me why I quit during my background check. On my other applications ( where I got interviews), I continued to be honest but vague. I think it looks pompous and flakey if you say something like "I wasn't following my passions"and if you leave it off your resume completely and they do a full-on background check, and they find out you left it off, it looks suspicious. Be honest but polite and brief.
3rd times a charm I hope. Just took a job with a staffing agency. Start this week. I am not quitting again period. Going to figure this out sink or swim.
~Shrek~
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Look up what Nurse Beth wrote and follow her advice.
Good luck with your interview! See, the people here are very scary and scared me so much that it put me into basically a depression. I ended up getting a good job, and you will too.