Okay, so I just got a call from the local hospital that I interviewed with for a job as a contingent float nurse and they want to hire me!!! Yay!!! It pays $7/hr. more than I am making at this LTC facility and the shift differential adds another $1.50. I feel so blessed to have been offered the job, and since most of my experience is in Med/Surg hospital nursing, I will take it for sure.
Now, for the hard part. I have never been terribly assertive to begin with, and I am going to have to give my two weeks' notice to the facility where I'm working now. I'm not sure how to word it, or even how to submit it. Should I email the DON? Call the lady who does the schedule? Call the DON (my last choice, for obvious reasons)? Even though they have not treated me particularly well and have taken advantage of me on occasion (letting me know an hour before my shift started that I was going to have the entire floor by myself) and probably consider me nothing more than a cog in their machine, I am still grateful that they offered me employment when they did and I feel somewhat guilty about quitting.
Can anyone suggest a nice way to say that I'm quitting? Does it sound appropriate to thank them for the employment but that the majority of my experience lies in hospital nursing and that the hospital is much closer to my house, what with the cost of gas and all? Should I mention any of the things that bothered me about this facility and air any issues that I felt were not resolved, or just not mention any of that? In a way, I think it would come across like sour grapes, but OTOH, I think that they need to know why yet another nurse is quitting after only five months at their facility.
Okay, so I just got a call from the local hospital that I interviewed with for a job as a contingent float nurse and they want to hire me!!! Yay!!! It pays $7/hr. more than I am making at this LTC facility and the shift differential adds another $1.50. I feel so blessed to have been offered the job, and since most of my experience is in Med/Surg hospital nursing, I will take it for sure.
Now, for the hard part. I have never been terribly assertive to begin with, and I am going to have to give my two weeks' notice to the facility where I'm working now. I'm not sure how to word it, or even how to submit it. Should I email the DON? Call the lady who does the schedule? Call the DON (my last choice, for obvious reasons)? Even though they have not treated me particularly well and have taken advantage of me on occasion (letting me know an hour before my shift started that I was going to have the entire floor by myself) and probably consider me nothing more than a cog in their machine, I am still grateful that they offered me employment when they did and I feel somewhat guilty about quitting.
Can anyone suggest a nice way to say that I'm quitting? Does it sound appropriate to thank them for the employment but that the majority of my experience lies in hospital nursing and that the hospital is much closer to my house, what with the cost of gas and all? Should I mention any of the things that bothered me about this facility and air any issues that I felt were not resolved, or just not mention any of that? In a way, I think it would come across like sour grapes, but OTOH, I think that they need to know why yet another nurse is quitting after only five months at their facility.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. :)