New and frustrated; ready to quit!

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aAs most of you know I have been fired TWICE! :bluecry1: I went on four different interviews befor and after Christmas and thought I would hear something by last Friday on one and yesterday on another. Interestingly enough my phone is silent!

I think is has to do with the fact that i was fired. I have been completely honest with the interviewers and when they ask me why I was fired from the first job, I have to tell them that I DO NOT know! You see, I was hired as a graduate/nurse extern. I worked there for 89 days and had no training as a nurse. The company decided not to waste money on Graduate nurse/RN training until AFTER we pass boards!

There were nasty accusations made about me that weren't true and I wasn't informed that there was a problem until September. In the first complaint, they accused me of trying to do too much and not asking for help in procedures. So I asked for help only to be told that I should have known how to do the assessment! I was written up for bragging about passing boards!

How do I explain something when I don't know why I was fired?

In the second one, my position was terminated.

So my questions to y'all are:

1. Should I just leave out my so called 'job experience' and just say that i was a SAHM and ran a paper route?

2. Should I keep trying to explain something that makes no sense to me?

I feel like an absolute failure. How maany nurses get fired from a NH?

Thanks!!

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In His Grace,

Karen

My understanding is that an employer cannot give details about a termination but they can verify if you were terminated or resigned for the positions. Stating you left, when in fact, you were terminated may come back to haunt you.

Don't forget the old "it wasn't a good fit" explanation.............

Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, educator.

you could just briefly say that in both cases neither were a good fit and that a termination of employment was mutual-makes it sound like good, lets them know that there was 'termination of services', and ex-employer can't give reason for termination. Actually, about 15 yrs ago when I worked in HR briefly, I was told that by law, you can't even say that a person was terminated. You can only give dates of active employment.....check into the law before you misrepresent yourself though. And also I know from the HR experiences-I worked in a factory then, but sure hospitals are pretty much the same-most HR and NMs know each other socially or sometimes communicate 'off the record' and information is passed that way-it is very hard to prove though......Very best of luck to you, I'm getting ready to start my own job search and even though I have no terminations or major issues hanging over me, it is stressful just the same. Perhaps we'll both come out winners in the job search game....

Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
I got a call today for a second interview, for a float position in a hospital!! :D :D :D :D

This is what am planning to say regarding my past experience:

I was employed at the hospital as a GN/NE. I left that job d/t a lack of orientation. On my second job I was in charge of med pass, giving insulin injections, doing accuchecks, flushing PICC lines, hanging IV's, doing dressing changes,responsible for all care and supervision of CNA's. My position was terminated.

What do you think? Does this sound appropreate?

Thanks!!

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In His Grace,

Karen

Good luck! :)

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