HIPAA violation, termination and new employment

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Hi

I just wanted to know if anybody knows whether it is difficult to get hired as an RN after being terminated for HIPAA violation reasons?

Thanks

There was a young lady who was fired for looking at her sisters records,the sister worked there as well, one of her co-workers reported her,the manager an absolute low life fired her. The young nurse is still looking for employment, she lives in a state where this organization is almost a monopoly. Try not to put this place on your resume.

Being fired is a horrible event. The feelings that you will experience will follow you for quite a while. So {{{hugs}}} from someone that has been there.

That said, when you apply for a different be honest. If you are honest, admit that you made a huge mistake and have learned a lesson from from it - you will be respected for it. If you try to hide it, it will eventually be found out. If you are honest about and admit your mistakes, your future employer will have more respect for you and actually give you a step up for the right job.

Good luck - you will get through this.

I don't want to disagree, I personally believe honesty is the best policy, especially as far as patient care honesty and ethics should prevail, but in nursing ( horribly nasty co-workers and managers, who believe me at one time or another have made mistakes soon forget)being honest at times is not the best policy. I'm sure alot of you out there know what I mean.

I don't want to disagree, I personally believe honesty is the best policy, especially as far as patient care honesty and ethics should prevail, but in nursing ( horribly nasty co-workers and managers, who believe me at one time or another have made mistakes soon forget)being honest at times is not the best policy. I'm sure alot of you out there know what I mean.

yes I know what you mean, sad to say. however, I also feel that honesty, in this case, would be the way to go.

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how will anyone else know why you were fired unless you tell them?

Honesty is always the best policy in nursing -- this is, after all, an occupation in which people's lives depend on our personal honesty and integrity.

Many employers consider leaving salient information off a resumé or application to be the same as lying, and grounds for being disqualified from consideration for a job -- or for being fired if they find out after you've been hired. Hospital administrative types talk to each other, and information gets around much more these days, the background checks many employers do uncover all kinds of information, and you never know when you're going to get "caught." Is it worth taking that chance?

I agree with htrn -- be honest and positive about your past experiences, what you've learned from them, and what changes you've made to avoid similar situations in the future. Don't wait for a potential employer to find out about any negative stuff from another source.

Yep be honest with yourself because I am almost positive honesty won't work when trying to find another job. First call or have someone call to try and get a reference to see what they say. then go from there. Let me just say I was honest and applied for multiple jobs and despite my excellent exp. i didn't get hired. The reason i got terminated was for 3 employess who didn't work and didn't want to work our floor complained about me. CHarge for 28 pts on med surg, ortho neuro trauma floor with primarily lvns. 2 of the nurses were rns. they said i didn't help them enough. Nope i was helping the lvns. sorry. so it doesn't always help to be honest

Some nurses are fired for legitimate reasons, but many are fired because the manager personally did not like them, or because a nurse feels uncomfortable working in other areas other than her/his department,or because a doctor puts pressure on a manager about a nurse, or because money is a factor and staffing has to be reduced, these managers hide their causes or reasons behind dishonest excuses like "you refused assignments", "a patient complained about you" "your co-workers said" how honest is that on their part, they play games to cover themselves and in the process ruins a nurses ability to earn a living.

So, basically, if I am fired for legitimate reason it means I am worthless criminal or whatever and nobody will hire me? Even if I am going to graduate school to be a nurse practitioner and my GPA is 4.0 and I have many other goods skills to contribute?

Just 1 mistake can cost me my career and nobody will hire me as a nurse?

It might take years to get hired again, but it is not impossible. Yet again, you might not want to go through the process and decide to seek employment in another line of work. If you were fired for a legitimate reason, it is true that the employers have the upper hand, as they do anyway. Just get out there and get back in the game.

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