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Opinions please. I have been an ob nurse for 4 years now. I don't officially have an ob position though, so I still have to go work medical floor if they are busy. I never used to mind, but its getting so few and far between that I don't feel like I am as good as I should be when working medical, its hard to keep up on the skills. A few months ago there were ob positions posted as 12 hour shifts, I can not do 12 hour shifts because I do not have daycare for overnights so several nurses with less seniority received the positions. I blew it off, but the other day more positions were posted. I applied and was called back. Since I am not available for night shifts they would not offer me the position. Instead a young cocky nurse with 1.5 years experience received the position. She refuses to work dayshifts, pm shifts and also refuses to attend c-sections because she is "not comfortable" with them. I have much more seniority and experience, but now she has an actual position just because I am not available for night shift. They knew I wasn't available when they originally hired me. I'm really upset. This position means she can work charge nurse and I still can't. This means I still have to work medical.....which probably isnt fair to the patients (don't get me wrong, I try my hardest!!). One of our doctors even told me that she was upset that I didn't get the position and asked if I minded if she talk to someone about this. How should I handle the situation without making things worse?

Specializes in Obstetrics.

lol I don't get it either. Can we start over?

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lol yes im sorry i was unclear the 1st time. i originally didnt apply for an ob position because they were listed as 12 hours which i wasnt available for. they are now listed as 8 hour shifts. there was no specifications that they were for night shifts. i applied and another nurse with less seniority and experience got the position. I'm not the only nurse on our unit that doesnt do overnights, there are people with ob positions that do not do overnights. i gave up my day shifts because they needed someone to fill strictly pm shifts, 2 months later they posted ob positions and they were not offered to me and I cant figure out why.

lol I don't get it either. Can we start over?
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im sorry, totally my fault. i was completely unclear and am now getting repeatedly attacked lol. ok. when they posted 12 hour shifts i did not apply because it did not fit my life style. the last posting was for 8 hours, no other specifications. Im not the only nurse that doesnt work night shift. i actually recently gave up my dayshifts when they asked me to work straight pms because that was where the ob need is. i feel like ive bent over backwards for them, but when the position was posted they gave it to someone with less experience and I dont understand why. the only thing i can think of is that its because she works straight nights, but then they should have posted the position as nights....right? my posting earlier was unclear and i seen that once i read it. now i sit here and cry cause im getting so many rude comments when all i wanted was an opinion on if i should talk to the don and ask why i can not have an ob position.

I don't get it. The position what was available was 12 hour nights. That was what need to be filled. It seems that there are no open spots on days.

Hospital positions are identified not only by the unit, but their shifts to cover a census.

Yes, you could have gotten the position if you were willing to work what the position was open for: nights.

It's not as if some young nurse was chosen over you, she was able to work the shift that needed to be filled, and you couldn't.

I do hope a shift that is workable for you opens up soon, i am sure they wouldn't hesitate to to hire you for a shift you could work if it was what the unit needed.

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wow...i'm sorry you're frustrated stashiaj, and i will acknowledge that we have all disagreed with you...

but rude? being attacked?

no.

as a poster already stated, we are not here to placate you if it is not warranted.

we are giving you the input you sought when you started this thread.

hopefully you will consider some/most of our similar responses, as worthy of contemplation.

there isn't anything wrong with asking why you didn't get the position, and i would encourage you to do so.

but if you don't like the answer you get - again - don't feel you're being "attacked".

there just may be some validity in their reasoning.

you come to a public forum, asking for feedback.

as my mom used to tell me: "be careful what you ask for - you just may get it."

much luck to you.

leslie

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see this is why im upset. she really truely refuses all this stuff. she has been arguing and in the don's office on a regular basis throwing a fit because she wants an ob position. im upset because i keep my mouth shut at work and behave like an adult. she whines like a child and gets the position?? thats really all i can think of. the posted position was for 8 hour shifts and not posted as a nights spot. im really not trying to be difficult....just truely frustrated.

If the shifts not in my time range, I would not even consider it a possibility.

I don't want to come off rude, but if she put she wouldn't work days or swing shift, or that she wouldn't attend C-Sections, and they hired her, THEIR BAD! (However bizarre)

I hope that you get the position your happy with soon, but as of now, NO GROUND TO STAND ON.

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sigh

no one has really given any advice but just jumped all over me. i admit i accidently left out the part that the posting was not for 12 hours or for night shift....but still....i keep trying to correct that part of the post and yet no one is listening. you truely wouldnt be frustrated with your job if someone else got a position you've worked very hard for and there was no reason for it? honestly? I didn't apply for something that didnt fit my lifestyle so please stop suggesting i did.

wow...i'm sorry you're frustrated stashiaj, and i will acknowledge that we have all disagreed with you...

but rude? being attacked?

no.

as a poster already stated, we are not here to placate you if it is not warranted.

we are giving you the input you sought when you started this thread.

hopefully you will consider some/most of our similar responses, as worthy of contemplation.

there isn't anything wrong with asking why you didn't get the position, and i would encourage you to do so.

but if you don't like the answer you get - again - don't feel you're being "attacked".

there just may be some validity in their reasoning.

you come to a public forum, asking for feedback.

as my mom used to tell me: "be careful what you ask for - you just may get it."

much luck to you.

leslie

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fyi i havent said a word about it at work. i dont complain at work, i go and do my job. the dr i refered to in my post asked me if i applied for the position and what was going on. if youre assuming im on here lying then why take the time to comment on my post??

No reasonable employer hires employees to shut their mouth or because they complain. Does that really make sense to you? Is it how things work in your hospital? If so, then you know what to do to get hired. lol. Things may not be as you have heard. Whoever told you this probably lied to get you to stop complaining about it.
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Specializes in Obstetrics.

Ugh I'm sorry. I hope that the reason you didn't get the job means there's something bigger and better for you coming. Hang in there :)

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Specializes in nursing education.
ive bent over backwards for that place.

Ah yes...sad to say that this rarely gets the employee any benefit, only lets them use you more, and make you more mad. Been there.

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Specializes in LTC, Hospice, Case Management.

But if the person they actually hired for the position is scheduled for a night shift wouldn't it be safe to assume that that would be the hours they needed the help - the hours you are unavailable for? I could see your point if they hired someone and scheduled them for a day shift but that is not what happened. Maybe when they posted the position they just unintentionally left out that it was for midnights.

Have you tried to talk to your manager about the situation? He/she will be able to help you understand the reason behind the decision more than any of us can.

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Specializes in Telemetry, OB, NICU.

Nobody is saying you are lying.

You keep saying this person refuses things and such. Earlier, you say this person got hired for nothing. How do you know? How do you know this person refuses C-sections? Were you in the room while they were discussing this with the manager? Did the manager or the employee tell you that she/he was hired because they were complaining too much? You are just an outsider, not even in the OB department. How do you know all that about everybody, what they refuse, how they get along and all that? Maybe she is now okay with attending C-sections.

I don't know what type of attitude you showed to the manager during interview. You sound so entitled here. If this is how you are around the managers, no wonder they will pick somebody else.

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Specializes in MedSurg, OR, Cardiac step down.

I am confused,

it was for 8 hr shift, night's wasn't specified.

you can't work night, she can.

she got hired, you didn't-clearly it was for nights....:idea:

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