2nd week orientation @ Adult day health but want to quit

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I recently just got a job in Adult Day Health Center and the company has good benefits and pay plus the schedule is awesome Mon-Fri 8Am to 4pm only no Weekend, no holiday, all paid holiday. Right now I am on my 2nd week orientation its 25 miles drive away from home which makes me really tired with the commute. The job isnt working out for me because I am so bored. I feel like I am doing a secretarial job and person working in pharmacy filling up medbox for the participants. I just dont really like sitting in my desk, answer phonecalls, attend meetings, check VS, check MAR. I feel like the time is really so slow. Working 2 weeks there seems like forever. Luckily, I am still working in my old job part time night shift in a hospital TCU which is only 5miles from my house and I love it there but my new employer doesnt like the fact that I have another job and want me to quit my job in TCU. I dont want to quit my hospital job. I rather quit my new job in Adult Day health because its not the set up I am wanting to do. I realize now how much I love bedside nursing being busy on the floor and just not noticed that the shift is almost over. Its also very convenient in the hospital that all medical records, meds, doctors orders, are computerized. I am planning to email the site coordinator and my Charge RN in Adult DayHealth that im quitting. Should I still give them 2 week notice? Im only on my 2nd week orientation and just want to email them that I am not coming back.What should i write in my letter? I dont want them to get upset at me for wasting their time so I rather quit now so they can find someone else. PLS advice. Thank you very much.

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I suggest you don't quit in an email.....you can send an email asking to meet with them, then IN PERSON, let them know:

1. How much you appreciate the opportunity they gave you

2. How much you like the facility and them

3. But have figured out quickly that the position is not a GOOD FIT.

4. Offer to keep working until they have a replacement hired

That would be the PROFESSIONAL way to handle it . . . and it leaves the door open if there's another job there someday that would be a better fit.

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I would like to give you my thoughts, but first just know this is from my HR & Staffing perspective. 1st -talk with your Charge RN 1st... Tell them it is not a match with your goals and you do not feel that Adult Day Health is the route you should have taken. You Appreciate the Opportunity, but you are pursuing another option. Tell your Charge you would like to be released from your orientation immediately if possible or you will stay as a professional courtesy till next Friday. The ball is in his/her court. Then after your Verbal notification follow up with the email to the Charge RN..RECAPPING THE CONVERSATION AND RESTATING YOUR NOTICE. please make sure you cc yourself and the site Coordinator or HR.

Never ever should you send a email or text only to quit a job. (not saying you would but i have had it happen to me before or got a call from a boyfriend or grandmother that so and so was not returning and when could they get their check)

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Specializes in ER, Pediatric Transplant, PICU.

Agree with the above poster. You should do this professionally, regardless of if you hate it or not. Do NOT email them and say you are quitting... Would you want them to email you and tell you your fired? No.

You never know who you will need in the future and you dont want to burn any bridge

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I'd ask to meet and hand deliver a typed, professional letter. No one has to give you a job. Be sure to thank them for the opportunity. I'd give two weeks, at least and offer to stay up to a month, if needed so they can take their time in making a new selection. I'd anticipate they'd let me go before two weeks are up. I would not indicate I was "bored", but find something honest and positive to say about the company or the people I worked with.

Are sure about quitting? Maybe the added hours or some aspect of the Adult Day Care could make you eligible, for a better position or more hours at your hospital job?

"I'm bored." Does not sound like a great combintion with meds...be careful.

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