I NEED help!!! I am a nursing student working as a PCA right now. I've been with this hospital for 2 years. My new manager scheduled me to work the weekend before my exam (even with R/O on those days). I explained to her when she first came on that this was the arrangment that I made with the previous manager and I would like to keep it that way so I can have a clear mind and study all weekend the weekend before exams. I assumed she agreed when she said ok. So I had to call out. Because it was for three days I need a Dr's note to come back.
Problem.. I have clinicals/class all week and cant get into see a Dr. to get a note. I was originally going to hand in my two weeks notice this week anyway to take time off for this last semester and help take care of a sick family member but now I'm stuck with two options: 1- quit without 2 weeks notice and risk future employers seeing that or 2- get fired for not having a note. They said if I call off Thursday I'll be fired and I can't get into a Dr until Friday.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm really not sure how to handle this professionally. I want to give my two weeks but in this situation I don't think it's possible...
"do you [or anyone else that interviews] assume it is because he/she is a non-rehire due to lack of notice or because he/she was terminated? i know of a non-rehire that chose that option. however, i also know of countless others who chose that option for entirely different reasons."
just out of curiosity, what other reasons could someone put down? i know my don personally does not like me and has made it well known that she feels this way, so i would not want to have any future employer contact her for fear of what she may or may not say.
Specializes in ICU, Home Health, Camp, Travel, L&D.
Late seeing this, but want to say to OP--I completely get that school is your priority. But, you might consider what your call out did, or could have done, to your unit. Not the NM, which obviously is not your best friend, but the boots on the ground you work with every day.
I hope you aren't that dismissive of your coworkers in nursing in the future, and that you realize that the lack of integrity you have uncovered in yourself (doctor's note, calling out sick when you were not sick/nonemergent reason) is a greater problem that burning this particular bridge.
I'm not being ugly, here, but I'm going to tell you that I'd rather have a new grad a little on the slow side than work with someone I couldn't count on to be a person of integrity.
peachesRN27
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"do you [or anyone else that interviews] assume it is because he/she is a non-rehire due to lack of notice or because he/she was terminated? i know of a non-rehire that chose that option. however, i also know of countless others who chose that option for entirely different reasons."
just out of curiosity, what other reasons could someone put down? i know my don personally does not like me and has made it well known that she feels this way, so i would not want to have any future employer contact her for fear of what she may or may not say.