Exit Interview. Honest or not?

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · May 24, 2016

In my experience, exit interviews are a joke. They SAY they want to hear everything, but nothing changes. We lost an RN in our pod back in January. She WAS brutally honest in her exit interview (she had already been hired in another dept of the same company, no bridges to burn). She laid it all out, why she was leaving, how the morale was in the dept, etc. Since she left, 2 more techs have followed her out the door for the same exact reasons. 3 others are interviewing for other positions in order to leave as well. So HR KNOWS about the problems, yet have done absolutely nothing to rectify them.

RNrhythm, BSN, RN · May 28, 2016

if there is any possible way you might EVER work for that employer in the future, DO NOT be honest in your exit interview. Especially if it's a large company, especially if they are expanding and buying up lots of hospitals in your area. You don't want to end up in that position where that employer is the only game in town, and they don't want to hire you back because you look like a disgruntled employee.

I agree 100%. I was in a similar situation and during my exit interview I stuck to the facts, did not get personal, and was completely professional yet honest. The information was shared almost immediately with my terrible supervisor who began her own campaign of retribution. Lesson learned.