Really Need Some Last Minute Advice!!

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I realize this topic may have been discussed before but I still need a little help. I have a full time job, a PRN job, and I have also picked up shifts with an agency a couple times. My problem is that I hate the PRN job. I get anxious and feel stressed out every time I have to go there. I got the PRN job for the experience (in a different field of nursing) and also for some extra money. I still have shifts scheduled up until the end of the year, but I want to turn in my resignation letter today. I have thought about it for quite a while now. The agency job was supposed to replace the PRN job but they just don't give me enough assignments. But, I think after having an anxiety attack the last two shifts I had to work, the time has come. I am scheduled to work tonight but I don't want to go. It feels like torture. I have 3 interviews lined up for this week for other PRN positions.

So...

Is it normal to dislike a job so much? I just don't feel quite like this about my full-time job..or even when I have gone to random places for the agencies.

Is it wrong to call in the same day you give notice? Will I be burning a bridge by doing that?

Is it wrong to give notice right before my interviews? What if they call them for a reference and they give me a bad reference for giving notice and/or calling in?

HELP....

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

If you are using your PRN job as a reference, do the right thing and give them the normal two weeks notice. Also the "nursing world" is really quite small.

Why would a potential employer want to hire someone who quit without notice?

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I did mention that I would be turning in a resignation letter....that includes, in writing, giving them the 2 week notice.

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Calling off the same day you give notice isn't exactly *giving notice*.

If you can function safely, then dig in and finish the 2 weeks.

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I did mention that I would be turning in a resignation letter....that includes, in writing, giving them the 2 week notice.

If you call off most places then extend that 2 week notice to include that day. So if your notice started on Dec 1, and you called off one day before December 14, your new "end" date would be December 15.

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If you call off most places then extend that 2 week notice to include that day. So if your notice started on Dec 1, and you called off one day before December 14, your new "end" date would be December 15.

Ok..good to know. I wasn't aware of that. Thanks

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Calling off the same day you give notice isn't exactly *giving notice*.

If you can function safely, then dig in and finish the 2 weeks.

Thanks. I guess I'll force myself to go tonight

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