Do I have the job?

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Hi everyone!

I had recently found a nursing home that offers training, and after training and certification you're employed there. I had called the DON and she told me to come down and fill out an application and to speak with her when I get there. I filled one out and spoke with her and she hired me on the spot... I told her I would give her letters of recommendations because I have only 1 employer ( I'm in high school). She said that would be excellent and she would wait to hear back from me. I went back about a week later and she wasn't there. The receptionist got the admin. he didn't know who I was and he was confused. I told him my situation and he said to put my name and number down. So fast forward a couple of days I went back again and there's a new DON. Back to step one I told her I filled out an application and that I was waiting for the fingerprints form so I could get my finger prints done before employment. I also had my college schedule for pre nursing. She took a copy of that and said that HR would call me. HR called me a couple of days later and she emailed me the fingerprints form and I completed it. So I'm a little uncertain and I'm really excited for this opportunity.

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Until you have received an offer letter from HR with a start date and salary quote, you should not assume you have a job.

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I'm not assuming, but am I at least a step in the right direction?

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DON offers job on spot to someone in high school (what kind of job?)

DON then is no longer employed

New DON knows nothing about you

No official job offer from HR

Nope, no red flags there at all...

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Well, they do sound desperate for staff which can be a good thing ...but also a very bad thing. I'll look out for your next thread about having "800 patients" and only "thirty minutes of orientation". :p

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Yes I am in high school. I just turned 18 and wanted to be a CNA throughout nursing school. If you had read my post they are paying for training and then orientation. You have to apply to the nursing home before training (training starts at the end of June) it's a 4 week class and 8 weeks of orientation as I was told when I spoke with the old DON.

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Well, they do sound desperate for staff which can be a good thing ...but also a very bad thing. I'll look out for your next thread about having "800 patients" and only "thirty minutes of orientation". :p

You have to apply to the nursing home before training. The class doesn't start until the end of June. The class is 4 weeks long so it ends in the end of July. I have 8 weeks of orientation as told by the DON... I'm new to all of this and I would appreciate helpful feedback.

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DON offers job on spot to someone in high school (what kind of job?)

DON then is no longer employed

New DON knows nothing about you

No official job offer from HR

Nope, no red flags there at all...

Yes I am in high school. I just turned 18 and wanted to be a CNA throughout nursing school. If you had read my post they are paying for training and then orientation. You have to apply to the nursing home before training (training starts at the end of June) it's a 4 week class and 8 weeks of orientation as I was told when I spoke with the old DON.

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young and naive.

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Not possible to tell if you have the job or not. Who's paying for the fingerprints? The reason the process is taking so long, is because the facility is having administrative problems. THAT may or not be a problem for YOU. ( a lot of them are).

While the free training sounds tempting, you need to find out how many residents you will have to take care of.

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Not possible to tell if you have the job or not. Who's paying for the fingerprints? The reason the process is taking so long, is because the facility is having administrative problems. THAT may or not be a problem for YOU. ( a lot of them are).

While the free training sounds tempting, you need to find out how many residents you will have to take care of.

Thank you for your helpful response. I don't know why I'm getting so many snarky comments when I'm just asking for help. I don't know how many residents I would be working with. But I do know it's a small facility around 50 residents. They are paying for fingerprints.

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Thank you for your helpful response. I don't know why I'm getting so many snarky comments when I'm just asking for help. I don't know how many residents I would be working with. But I do know it's a small facility around 50 residents. They are paying for fingerprints.

The comments are sounding snarky because we are all well-aware of nursing homes that are poorly-run, have constant changes in administrative personnel and tend to dick employees around shamelessly.

Someone offered you a job on the spot, then left their own position, and the people who are there now know nothing about you. This is sadly typical for the way these places operate. I think what some of the "snarky" posts are getting at is that even if you do have a job there, it may well be the kind of place you don't want to work in.

Another flag is "4 weeks of classroom training and 8 weeks of orientation". That sounds a bit pie-in-the-sky for a nursing home with personnel turnover. You might want to check other facilities and see if their offers are comparable. If they can't match that, then there's a reason. It might be worth your while to take a CNA course at your local community college. Not sure how this would fit in with your pre-nursing coursework.

Part of valuable nursing education that you won't get in school is to be able to sniff out a bad work situation before you find yourself employed there. Good luck to you; I'm wishing you all the best in your career.

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