handing in notice

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I'm handing in my notice tomorrow but I'm so worried about doing it. As I didn't tell anyone on the ward that I had gone for another job. I even had my apprisal 10 days & didn't say anything.

I'm at present acting up into a band 6 post & have managed to secure a permanent band 6 on another ward, I feel guilty about going as the ward manager keeps says about when she can have me in a permanent post but at the end of the day it isn't definite that I'd get the job & I don't feel that she is a very good manager. Just trying to find an excuse as to why I'm leaving now.

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Specializes in Nursing Home ,Dementia Care,Neurology..

You don't need an excuse! just tell her you applied and got the job on another ward because you didn't know if your present job was going to be permanent.Nurses move about hospitals all the time.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Nothing to worry about, you do not have to inform if looking for other work. Nurses do it all the time

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Specializes in Cardiolgy.

I wouldn't have told anyone I was looking for another job, just given my notice. That's the common practice on my ward, if you speak to much about wanting to leave without doing it there are always people who'd take the opportunity to bad mouth.... but once you've got your new and better job, you've restricted what they can say!

It's a shame that for such a caring profession we don't always get the support and are made to feel guilty for moving on.

Congratualtions on your new job, I hope you enjoy it, and I'm sure (especially with the current job situation) your old wards vacancy will be filled quickly.

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

Congratulations, don't worry about handing your notice in you are going to a perminant promotion as the post you are in is not.

Your manager will have been in nursing long enough to understand the need for movement and job security

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these days you have to look out for yourself, so enjoy your new position.

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Specializes in Operating Theatre and Occ. Health.

Employment has a natural ebb and flow to it. People come and people go. Don't fret.

I was a department manager for almost 20 years and it never let it bother me when staff announced they were giving noticed because they had found a new job. I would show (genuine) interest in their new job and wish them well on it. Naturally I would be sorry to lose them but most of my staff stayed with me some time *she boasts*!! so it was actually good to see them move on and better themselves. I had several leave to go on a theatre course and then come back as sisters!

Point being, it's a free country and what you do with your life is your business, no-one else's.

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Specializes in med/surg.

Since I left just about every other nurse on the ward is leaving! It's none of their business, nurses leave for all sorts of reasons & that's just how it goes. All the very, very best to you!!

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

I would give ANYTHING, if I were in your shoes....

I was yelled at (again) yesterday for not doing something that I was unaware I was "supposed" to be doing, which has become Standard Procedure where I work.

The stress of not knowing what I am going to be written up for next, the unrealistic workload and low pay are NOT worth it, and I am getting the heck out of Dodge as soon as I can find another job.

Good luck with your new job!

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.
I would give ANYTHING, if I were in your shoes....

I was yelled at (again) yesterday for not doing something that I was unaware I was "supposed" to be doing, which has become Standard Procedure where I work.

The stress of not knowing what I am going to be written up for next, the unrealistic workload and low pay are NOT worth it, and I am getting the heck out of Dodge as soon as I can find another job.

Good luck with your new job!

One of the reasons I am glad to work in the UK is that you are rarely "written up" for anything unless it has implications for patient care.

She has to give notice, it is different in the UK and she is going to work on a ward in the same trust which would be really frowned on by HR if she didn't give notice.

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Specializes in ICU, SDU, OR, RR, Ortho, Hospice RN.

oreo nursing is a very mobile work force.

work where your heart leads you, that is the greatest thing about what we do.

do not worry or fear anything because at the end of the day you have to make yourself happy. :D

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