Where do begin? I have been an LPN for 1 year in 2 months and unfortunately during this period I have had 5! nursing jobs. yes 5.
(1) I started off in a nursing home, just to find my niche I didn't like it but I needed a form of income and I needed some experience in the field. Two months in the DON called me and said, he thinks that its best that he let me go. He didn't give me a specific reason, but during my orientation the nurses that trained me had to evaluate how I was doing, so I assumed that did not do well during orientation. Like I said, I did not like the nursing home, I had 30-32 patients to care for and I just did not feel safe nor happy.
(2) My second job was in a pediatric home health, I was working for a family and one of the orders called for me to put cotton ball in the little boy's ears as he had surgery 2 days before. Well, I did put cotton ball in my patient ear but I had soaked and drained it with H.Peroxide. Well, the next day the family called the agency and said I put a wet cotton ball in the boys ears. The order stated for me to cleaned around the boy's ear with a cotton tip and H.peroxide and then placed a cotton ball in his ear. My mistake was I misunderstood what the outgoing nurse was telling me before she left about the patient new orders. My fault. It was a med error and the agency said I cannot work for them unless I complete a med error CEU. I never completed it, so never went back to work for them. Although, 6 months later they were still calling me to come work for them because they need nurses so bad. I didn't the patients they assign me usually live 45-50 minutes away and I just couldn't put myself through that again.
(3) My third job was a nursing home again. This lasted a month and a few weeks. I mentioned that I do not like the nursing home. I don't. But my mom work in this particular nursing home and she gave told the DON about me. Well, since my mom has been there for 5 years and a good worker they hired me. Well, I had so much patient work load that I did not do my treatments, although I charted that I did. This led to me having a meeting with the DON and 4 other people in administration. I was so nervous at that meeting that I told myself that I never want to be in such a position again. I felt humiliated, embarrassed, and just incompetent as a nurse. I was first suspended, but then let go. They informed me that they would report me to the BON. well it's been 8 months, have not gotten anything from the BON and I've checked my license online and it says I'm in good standing no complaints.
(4) My fourth job was at a pediatric clinic. i did not like it much as I felt I was losing many of my skills. I mostly gave immunizations to babies and worked on the doctor's schedule for the week. I worked there for 4 months but then i had to leave due to the fact that I started an RN program and the schedule would conflict with my work schedule. The manager loved me, got great reviews from them. I still felt bad though due to my recent firing. My self esteem just plummeted and Im still feeling like somethings wrong with me. Anyways, I did not get fired from this job, I left due to school.
(5) I am currently working for 2 agencies. one is a pediatric agency and the other is a pediatric and adult agency. Well, yesterday I got fired from the pediatric agency. The reason is I document that I left at my scheduled time when in reality I left 30 minutes early three time. Did I think they would find out? yeah. Did I think it was an issue. I did. I literally cannot figure out any reason as to why I charted that I left at 0700 when in reality I left at 0630. At the other agency I work for, one of the parents always let me leave early and she said I can still write down the time I left as the time I was scheduled. in my head, I started to think it was no longer a big deal so i did it with this agency. I know in nursing school they teach us not to do this, I hate that I'm not abiding by the things that I was taught in school and letting others influence my judgement. I knew it was a big deal and I did it anyway. I'm sure the other nurses that work with the pediatric/adult agency leave early but chart their scheduled time cause the guardian (mom) said its ok. Anyways, got called into the office today and I was let go. It is considered insurance fraud. in total I lied and said I worked 1 hour and 30 minutes. The DON were saying that the insurance company might not think its a big deal they might just say "oh, its only 1 hour and let it go. they do not think that I was trying to be malicious. but they have to report it to the BON. Two of the times I left, the patient had an appointment in the morning so he had to leave at 0530 but I charted that I left at 0600. the other time I left early is when I emailed the agency saying that I can now work 12 hours form 7pm-7am. well it wasn't suppose to start that particular week, but the following cause I have nursing clinical in the morning. Hence I left at 0630 but charted i left at 7. The DON was saying it all depends on how the BON choose to handle it.
I do not know what's wrong with me. I've never been fired before until I started nursing. I'm a few months from graduating an RN program and I still cannot get my act together. I want to treat this as a lesson learned. I'm feeling stupid cause I've been fired so many times. I'm still working for the pediatric/adult agency but I am going to chart the correct time that I leave, at the end of the day the I have to protect my license no one else. Does anyone know how long it will take for the BON to contact me? will they make a big deal over 1 hour and 30 minutes? My first year of nursing was rough. I take full responsibility. I am so embarrassed that I created another account to write this although my other account is not even lay real name. I need to remember all the handwork I put in into obtaining my license and not let it go so easily. What's wrong with me? I just do not think that I am learning from my mistakes as a normal human being would.
In all honesty and sincerity, you are ethically challenged. You chart you provided treatments when you didn't- that's lying. you leave early and say you left later. So you're getting paid for time you didn't work- that's stealing. You feel you can do better? How about just DOING better and quit thinking about it?
I'm confused. Why would that cause you to suspect she is the same person?
I think blondy meant that she also wondered why the poster asked her is she was Starl, considering that her responses were similar to the rest of ours.
Maybe this is off topic but If my mom had put her credibility on the line to help get me a job, you better believe I would bust my a$$ to make her proud. You were representing your mother's reputation at that institution. Aside from everything else, this blows my mind.
So along with therapy and everything else, you owe your mother a sincere apology in my opinion.
Maybe this is off topic but If my mom had put her credibility on the line to help get me a job, you better believe I would bust my a$$ to make her proud. You were representing your mother's reputation at that institution. Aside from everything else, this blows my mind.
So along with therapy and everything else, you owe your mother a sincere apology in my opinion.
Apology?!?!! I wouldn't hold my breath with that one too soon. The OP posted things about herself that would make any 'normal' person pack up and leave town if word were to get out.
And she did it like it was just 'another average day at work' or 'oh well, it's life as a nurse'. Do you really believe she'll apologize to her mom for the humiliation she caused her? Do you really believe that she's even given one second of thought to how she's pulled other people into her crap? Off topic? No. Dear old mom was just another causality who trusted the OP to do the right thing.
I don't think so! I don't think mom will get an apology unless the OP actually faces revocation or jail time. This just angers me so much because LPNs have a tough enough time as it is with some people believing that only RNs are nurses; with the 'you're just an LPN' mentality. I cannot count the number of times I've had to prove myself as an above-average LPN simply because I was not considered to be a nurse unless I was an RN. Now she's trying to become an RN.
>>>>Her actions were/are occurring as she trains to become an RN! Did that change anything??? No! These are the same actions that can cause even more damage to the public because RNs have more autonomy than LPNs.
It is my very strong belief that actions like this is what's contributed to pushing LPNs out of nursing homes and into the community, and ASN-RNs out of hospitals into nursing homes in some areas.
In my opinion, this person should not be nursing simply because she possesses the academic intelligence to pass a series of exams. Compassion, ethics/morality, and an overall concern for simple humanity is lacking.
Reggaemuffin, none of this is directed at you. I'm just very angry about this post because many of us go to work, bust our
a**es doing the right thing every single time even when no one is looking, and are physically, verbally, and emotionally abused to some degree on a regular basis.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Maybe this is off topic but If my mom had put her credibility on the line to help get me a job, you better believe I would bust my a$$ to make her proud. You were representing your mother's reputation at that institution. Aside from everything else, this blows my mind.
So along with therapy and everything else, you owe your mother a sincere apology in my opinion.
Yes, I was thinking the exact same thing. I'm surprised that no one (including me) brought it up sooner.
I think blondy meant that she also wondered why the poster asked her is she was Starl, considering that her responses were similar to the rest of ours.
Please don't tell me this is the millennial generation coming into nursing!!
I didn't know I would have to follow the rules to a T.
These were not mistakes they were lies & falsifying documents.
Please be a troll.
What do you mean by millennial generation? There has been ethically challenged people from the beginning of time... It's not a generational issue at all
I have been an LPN for 1 year in 2 months and unfortunately during this period I have had 5! nursing jobs. yes 5. 
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In all honesty and sincerity, you are ethically challenged. You chart you provided treatments when you didn't- that's lying. you leave early and say you left later. So you're getting paid for time you didn't work- that's stealing. You feel you can do better? How about just DOING better and quit thinking about it?