How to find a job after being fired?

[ilove]

Is it possible? It seems impossible! ALso, anyone know any good reference checking services that you can use where you dont have to provide SSN Number. Reliable and not scam.

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Poor fit would be an acceptable reason to put down. I would never put "terminated".

[beast master RN]

lol sounds like whatever you did might have granted being fired , i would def evaluate your past position and what you want to do in the future maybe want to try a diff specialty, and hopefully you were rude to another staff member and not a pt, if that's the case you might wana just quit nursing

[ilove]

Really, I didn't do anything wrong. Should I just quit nursing? I'm innocent!

[ilove]

anyone been in the same situation?

[klone, MSN, RN]

anyone been in the same situation?

Hard to say. You're being very cryptic and we don't know what the situation *is*.

[ilove]

its like not good patient care.

[mazy]

I'm going to go along with Altra here. You are spinning right now and you need to stop because you are all over the place with this. Just stop and rest and get grounded, take a breath.

You got fired. You don't say what for but I think many of us out there can say that we at one point or another either got fired or agreed with our employer that a job was not a good fit.

It sucks to feel that way. But before you can move on with your future you need to just get yourself right with whatever happened, figure out what you learned from it and how you are going to talk about it and how it will make you a better nurse in the future.

Until you figure that out you are just not going to do anything but flail around like this.

Most employers do not check job references until you get to a point in the interviewing process where they are thinking about extending an offer, otherwise they'd be spending a lot of money checking out a lot of random applicants.

In the case that one does pre-check, then well, that sucks but you need to just keep moving on.

Sit down and figure out what you learned from that experience so that if you get called into an interview, and knowing that they will check your references, you know how to say to them that such and such happened and this is what I learned from it, and that knowledge, experience, and self-awareness is what I will bringing into this position.

And for the love of all that is holy, please do not throw your money away on a reference checking service. They are there precisely to take advantage of people like you, who are in a panic in this age of unemployment. You know what you know, now you need to figure out what to do about it.

And unfortunately, it's going to be hard. That's the only guarantee you have, but the experiences that challenge us to be better are often brutally hard.

Just hold on to the knowledge that after all is said and done, you WILL be a better person because of it.

It's a Sunday night. Go out for a walk, watch a DVD, put this aside from now, clear your head, and make a decision to tackle this head-on tomorrow morning after a good night's sleep.