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Fired on my first day of work

OK, so here it goes..on interview, full time night shift at nursing home, sub acute unit. Told I am RN supervisor, no assignment , just house supervisor. Little did I know, they were preparing to fire existing RNs for calling off, because existing RNs were given a double assignment (entire sub acute floor of 25, with very high acuity) ...so they think they have me bondoogled, then I am on my first shift and of course the RN called off again, so I am alone, but the DON is there. I have 2 units full of IVs, tubes, I/O, foleys, wound vacs, PICCS, O2, breathing tx, narc prns out the orifice, and 2 CNAs who know how to do nothing but interrupt me every 3 seconds of shift. 2:30 am system crashes, and DON tells me to manually print out EMAR and ETAR of 500 pages and chart manually. No possible way, shape time, with massive workload by 3am , and another 2 med passes ahead...so I suggested that going forward we have better staffing because I will not put license on line for anyone, and she threw me out of the building at 3 am.

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Wow! You definitely dodged a bullet. Have you considered filing a report with the State? That sounds over the top, to say the least...

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Not much to report other than the DON is a bitter , nasty woman who has pissed off the staff so badly she is now working about 24/7 to cover for all the call offs. She has only been there about 2 months...and not really that surprising , like other new DONs , she comes in like a steam roller, alienates everyone and will likely be out of a job before the winter is over. They probably did me a favor.

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Moved to LTC forum

Wow. What an experience. That institution will continue to deteriorate if they treat there nursing like that. Perhaps professional consultant would be considered. No one should be treated so poorly :(

I would have sent her a thank you card.

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Consider yourself lucky. There are many things worse than getting fired...namely, working in a dumpster fire like that.

Better luck next time.

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I would have sent her a thank you card.

And a Christmas card. And a Hannukah card. And a Kwanzaa card. I would sing while I was dumpster-diving rather than work in a place like that.

OK, so here it goes..on interview, full time night shift at nursing home, sub acute unit. Told I am RN supervisor, no assignment , just house supervisor. Little did I know, they were preparing to fire existing RNs for calling off, because existing RNs were given a double assignment (entire sub acute floor of 25, with very high acuity) ...so they think they have me bondoogled, then I am on my first shift and of course the RN called off again, so I am alone, but the DON is there. I have 2 units full of IVs, tubes, I/O, foleys, wound vacs, PICCS, O2, breathing tx, narc prns out the orifice, and 2 CNAs who know how to do nothing but interrupt me every 3 seconds of shift. 2:30 am system crashes, and DON tells me to manually print out EMAR and ETAR of 500 pages and chart manually. No possible way, shape time, with massive workload by 3am , and another 2 med passes ahead...so I suggested that going forward we have better staffing because I will not put license on line for anyone, and she threw me out of the building at 3 am.

Hahahahahahaha! That DON is a troll! She saved you from a nightmare. The second she "threw me out" all that would be left was a cloud of dust, the ID badge and facility keys! I'd rather go back to Iraq. For free.

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