Is this fair move for my immediate supervisor to report me as noncompliant?

Guest219794 · Nov 12, 2018

just turn in PALS and continue to live life. It's not worth worrying about. I'd say I enjoy working here but unfortunately forgot to renew my PALS or mistaken the actual date it would expire. If you are fired Enjoy the time off and look for something else. You can't let this profession with all these petty people get under your skin, otherwise you will get gray hair or bald headed and unnecessarily early wrinkles a head of time. Your beauty and mental state is worth much more. Now go get you a class of wine/champagne and relax.

I think this is good advice. If this is the culture of the work environment, you can:

A- accept it

B- leave

C- try to change it

D- stay in place and resent it

C won't work, and D isn't healthy. I'd stick with A or B.

Of course, I could have this all wrong. Despite my generally positive outlook, I am balding, grey haired, and wrinkled.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Nov 12, 2018

Thank you. Yes you understand what I was trying to say. I did not go to work on the 7th because I took my certification and obtained the same day. I was therefore placed on administrative leave. I care back to work Friday and HR called me telling me they will pay my admin leave and but had me signed a form stating I have until the 15th to obtain certificate or I will be suspended without pay of course or terminated. I checked job descriptions (Unavailable online but under their job openings nothing was specified that PALS is a requirement. I have read in one ASPAN articles that PALS is not required but recommended in PACU. I have my BLS (requirement as stated in the job description) and ACLS. PALS ( but 7 days late..)

As I understand, you are on administrative leave and will be fired unless you have your PALS certification by November 15. But you have your certification as of November 7.

If you were told subsequent to being hired that PALS is a requirement for the job, and if you failed to meet your deadline for obtaining the certification, administrative leave is justified. Termination is probably even justified. But it sounds as if there was more to it than that. Do you have any other disciplinary issues? If, for example, you have multiple write-ups for not getting along with colleagues or attendance issues, they may be taking this opportunity to get rid of you. If you're approaching your manager or HR with this attitude of "no big deal," that may be reason for them to want to get rid of you. The only right attitude here is "I am so sorry I was late in recertifying. It was my responsibility and I screwed up, but here's what I'm doing to rectify the situation." Scouring through job postings is probably not the way to do.

allnurses Guide · Nov 13, 2018

Reporting to HR is NOT extreme. Say you are expired. 7 hours, 7 days, 7 weeks, 7 years, whatever. You care for a child that decompensates. You fail to intervene appropriately. An investigation ensues and a lawyer gets involved. Now the facility cannot prove you were qualified to care for that child. Now the facility is liable. Of COURSE you should be suspended until you can prove you have the basic, baseline qualifications to do your job. I am a little stunned anyone would think otherwise.

Keeping up with certs needed for your job is part of your job. I have never worked anywhere that suspension was not automatic the minute a necessary certification is allowed to expire. It is just best practice. In fact, in many major hospital systems, this is programmed in and the tracking software notifies HR automatically. No "tattling" involved. By not doing it, you tattle on yourself, so to speak.

Lesson learned. Don't let things expire. Don't wait until you inconvenience everyone else by missing a shift in order to take care of something you had months to take care of beforehand.

Horseshoe, BSN, RN · Nov 13, 2018

Thank you. My immediate supervisor did not do this: to give notice and I didn't receive any notifications when clocking in (usually they have notification and reminders) that's why that bothered me. I got a call from HR and told me I was non compliant and when I went to meet with HR I was told to sign the form whether I agree or not. ( it was a bad surprise)

As someone who has done a similar thing, I'll say that while reminders from others are nice, at the end of the day, this is on you. We are adults and are ultimately responsible for keeping our licenses and certifications up to date. When I did something similar, the only thing I could really do was take responsibility for messing up. Blaming others for not reminding me would not have qualified for taking full responsibility. Should this be an unforgivable sin? Of course not; it's simply a mistake-your mistake-that tends to come with uncomfortable consequences that usually result in a valuable learning opportunity.