Hello everyone, I am stuck in a career dilemma. I want to leave my current job for a possible better opportunity, but the job advancement for my unit is within hands reach. I agree with my peers to wait it out.†I just need an outlet to vent.
My Scenario
I have been working as an extra help†RN 1 for more than 15 months and found out I cannot advance to RN 2. My hospital policy states any RN who has been employed by the facility is given the opportunity to advance to RN 2 after 1 year of the same unit. I applied and I was denied. I made a formal email with my Nurse Manager and asked what I could do to make myself applicable. She expressed that I am more than qualified and she would have approved my request. Unfortunately, the policy only applies to employees who are receiving hospital benefits.
Extra Help†is similar to per diem, but with more shifts per pay period and without hospital benefits. I chose to work at this position because I was a New Grad living in competitive market and it was the only job offer at the time. I did not have many choices after applying across the state. It was a paid RN acute hospital care experience without having to go to a SNF/LTC. I am, however, able to advance into a benefit position as I continue working.
In the past year, I have been applying to all benefit RN positions in my facility. I have been very frustrated after seeing those positions, for my own unit, given to newer nurses who were hired months later. The most disheartening was witnessing a nurse completing orientation, receive the benefit position straightaway, and then resigning from the hospital after only 3 months.
I am the most senior extra help RN in my unit (not saying seniority should play factor). The seasoned nurses are aware of my situation and are advocating for my advancement. They are in full agreement that I should have been benefited after my probationary period as they did in the past.
All I can do is just wait. My entire unit has been very supportive and my nurse managers expressed I am the priority for the next benefit position opportunity.
