Fired but asked to resign!

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Hello fellow nurses,

Its been a while since posting on ALLNURSES.COM, however I feel compelled to post at this time.

Just recently (last Friday the 29th of Jan ) I was FIRED or better yet asked to resign from my position as a PEDS RN at a local hospital where I had been employed at for 2 years.

They fired me on the grounds that I had disregarded the attendance policy.

What baffles me is that I have seen several nurses and staff disobeying our attendance policy numerous times, by clocking in late or even calling out.

I feel that I was terminated more so for personality conflicts with staff in upper management. I am young and attractive, I get lots of compliments from patients and family.

They fired me and said Im a great nurse but hospital policy, blah blah blah on attendance.

I really feel discriminated against. Either because of race or maybe because of politics. All I know was I was terminated unjustly.

There was a nurse who even hooked up old IV tubing to a new patient thinking it was that patients tubing. Then come to find out that old tubing belonged to a patient who had HIV....

This RN is still working there!!!! Im hurt and feel as if I was wronged....

Can anyone give me any insite?

Maybe an opinion?

Thanks

Maria

Specializes in PACU, CARDIAC ICU, TRAUMA, SICU, LTC.

I am in agreement with OPs who gave advice "do not resign." Your employer wants you to resign; they will not have to fork over $ if you do resign. Nurses can and do get unemployment. I know; I did for 12 weeks. In so doing, I had some $ coming in; this gave me time to look for a job and not take the first thing that came along.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

This is tough, because while there may have been some singling out(this often happens when you butt heads with a manager or manager's pet) you cannot leave them any kind of opening. I started to reply right away so I didn't see if you had broken the attendance policy. I know it sucks but when you are on thin ice, deserved or not, they will look for anything to discipline you. They won't care that others have broken the policy at that point..If you are not in a union facility, then you're screwed, plain and simple.

I pick my battles but have stood up to management when I feel it's important. But, you can bet that every T is croosed and every i is dotted, KWIM? Everything I do now is even more "by the book" than management does it. That, and I document everything.

Hope things work out better for you..stay strong.

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Are you for real?? I dont know,there are so many inconsistencies in your post..First you state that you were fired because of an attendence issues.Later you jump into saying that possibly your looks had something to do with yout termination..then you come up with your race,personality conflict and politics? So was it your attendence issues,beauty,personality,race or politcs?? Or maybe a little bit of everything...No way they would fire you being late ONLY two minutes..who are you trying to kidd? It is illegal..before they fire you for attendence you would have to have a verbal,written and final write up..just admit that you were notoriously late,then maybe some would believe you. Buit if all of this is true you have a fat case sister.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, adult med/surg, peds BMT.

OMG ruby vee is wise indeed. All nurses but in particular new grads could benefit from that advice.

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Well that and politics and race and the fact that the patients were very satisfied. :)

Also I wonder how on earth do the PEDS patients tell their nurses on daily bases that they are beautiful?:lol2: Mkst of those kids are scared,frustrated and want to go home..do the 3 and 5 year olds pay attention to beauty?? please

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Also I wonder how on earth do the PEDS patients tell their nurses on daily bases that they are beautiful?:lol2: Mkst of those kids are scared,frustrated and want to go home..do the 3 and 5 year olds pay attention to beauty?? please

These kind of comments are exactly how some nurses speak to each other. How old are you again?

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

No honey, you didn't get fired because you were pretty. You can get that thought right out of your pretty little head. You were fired because you violated the attendance policy. Learn the lesson and deal with it. Also, grow up because using excuses like "I was so pretty that they fired me" is so freaking childish.

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No honey, you didn't get fired because you were pretty. You can get that thought right out of your pretty little head. You were fired because you violated the attendance policy. Learn the lesson and deal with it. Also, grow up because using excuses like "I was so pretty that they fired me" is so freaking childish.

Here is another example of the kind of behavior that some nurses have..... Its responses like yours, that make me question how someone could be so cold to another.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.
Here is another example of that kind of behavior.....

Honestly, I don't care. I am so irritated with the "i'm so pretty they fired me". It's something straight out of Ruby's thread. If you don't like what I have to say, too bad. It's my viewpoint. I honestly stopped taking the OP seriously after the first 5 sentences of her post and it stopped after I read the "I'm pretty, I get lots of compliments". Please, she's making excuses for her behavior. She violated policy and she got terminated for it.

I am not speaking as one nurse to another, I'm speaking one person to another. Puh-lease, I'm not playing that "Is this how nurses talk to each other" game.

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Here is another example of the kind of behavior that some nurses have..... Its responses like yours, that make me question how someone could be so cold to another.

Wah! Nurses are so mean to each other! We eat our young! Especially if they're pretty! Wahhhh!

If she couldn't get along with her coworkers at a law firm/wal-mart/airport/restaurant/any other place of employment and consistently came in late or called in, would they be nicer to her? It's not that nurses aren't nice to each other. It's that sometimes the real world comes crashing down on someone, even in nursing, and when that happens, we have to pick ourselves up and move on. It's not because nurses are meaner to new people than any other profession, we just have more special snowflakes that whine about how mean we are.

Sucks to lose a job. I feel for her. But sympathy won't get her another job. Looking inside herself to see what she can do differently is what she needs to be doing.

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Hilarious responses. What wouldn't I give to see the expressions of the faces behind the computer screen typing these up.

Lol at "wah".

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Hilarious responses. What wouldn't I give to see the expressions of the faces behind the computer screen typing these up.

Lol at "wah".

It is what it is. Learn from it and move on. At your next job, just lay low and don't be a hero.

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