I need some input from fellow nurses as I am in a deep dark hole I can't seem to get out of.
Background info:
I returned to take a nursing job in my home town. I was working at a local hospital on their med/surg floor, (I was previously employed at a large hospital on a PCU teley cardiac/vascular floor). At my six month review the DON told me she had not tolerance for absences, I had contracted the H1N1 virus from one of my patients and had been very ill, I had missed around 6 shifts at work. I had followed policy and called in and informed the staff on what was going on. In my review she stated I had a great attitude at work, but was not meeting her expectations due to my absences. She also put me on 6 more months of probation.
The absence issue was taken care of and things were going well, or so I thought!
I had had a very busy day on the floor and right before report on of my patients pulled a joint drain. What a mess! Patient really needed this drain as they had put out 300 cc. I fix them up and rush into report. As I am giving report I state what had happened in regard to this patient and their output from the joint drain. I stated that I had not called the Doc yet, but would as soon as I was done with report, ( I didn't want to keep them waiting). Two of the nurses in report rip my head off about this issue, I handled it as best I could but I did get a little "testy" over their unprofessional behavior! The next AM I was put on call, which I readily accepted after this ordeal! Only to be called in by the DON and told that my position was just not going to work out. She told me that a couple of the nurses though I was overconfident and did not know what I was doing, that I had a bad attitude, was unteachable and told stories. She was reading this to me from an email she had received from one of the nurses whom was unprofessional in report the day before! I couldn't believe I was losing my job based on this email!
This was right before Thanksgiving and I have been so depressed over the whole thing! I had never had problems with fellow co-workers before and never been written up or counseled, nothing! My nursing skills had never been questioned and I had never caused patient harm.
How do I get over this and get on with my life? Am I taking it to personal? Help!
The best way to get back up is remember why you went into nursing in the first place. Never let a person or place define you. Move on and find another job. Nursing is tough and people can be tough but be tougher!! This too shall pass.Hugs to you. Never give up.. When the going gets tough just fight harder, quote from my 80 year old mother.
You were treated unfairly, no doubt about it. It's very upsetting.
I hope you find your dream job and the nurse that got you fired ends up working as a cat litter cleaner-upper, or something! (sorry, trying to think of something funny, yet gross and that's the best I could come up with!).
Specializes in phy.rehab, acute care, long term care,.
I am in my 25th year of nursing. I was fired 20 or so years ago for something similar. I was devistated, but i went on with my life found another job, put it behind me. i know that i am and was a good nurse and that is all that matters. So keep up you confidence and go on with your nursing career and council some nurse on your experience 20 years from now.
I once worked with an amazing nurse who got written up by the nurse manager for excessive absences---she called in quite a bit when she was undergoing chemo and radiation when she had breast cancer.
WHAT?! How in the world can someone get written up for that? Does FMLA not cover nurses? Or does the administration make it "very difficult" to go through the FMLA paperwork process?
To the OP...if you can, just be confident in knowing that you did nothing wrong to deserve this. Yes, anger about this whole sitch is understandable, but don't let it affect your self-perception.
WHAT?! How in the world can someone get written up for that? Does FMLA not cover nurses? Or does the administration make it "very difficult" to go through the FMLA paperwork process?
The incident with my colleague who had breast cancer and missed a lot of work due to chemo and radiation occurred prior to FMLA. I think she could not afford to take a medical LOA so she continued working through her ordeal. It also did not help matters any that she and the nurse manager who wrote her up did not get along well.
The incident with my colleague who had breast cancer and missed a lot of work due to chemo and radiation occurred prior to FMLA. I think she could not afford to take a medical LOA so she continued working through her ordeal. It also did not help matters any that she and the nurse manager who wrote her up did not get along well.
Oh, that is so sad. I'm not a fan of legislating morality, but, in some cases, legislating common decency MUST happen to protect the most vulnerable.
WHAT?! How in the world can someone get written up for that? Does FMLA not cover nurses? Or does the administration make it "very difficult" to go through the FMLA paperwork process?
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The best way to get back up is remember why you went into nursing in the first place. Never let a person or place define you. Move on and find another job. Nursing is tough and people can be tough but be tougher!! This too shall pass.Hugs to you. Never give up.. When the going gets tough just fight harder, quote from my 80 year old mother.