leave or consider staying?

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I have been an RN for about 2 years. I left my last job because I could not do overnights. My current job, which I really like and have been there a year, decided that they would not work with me with getting set hours. the reason why I wanted set hours is because I just had a baby. It would be easier for childcare to have set hours or something predictable. I even asked for a weekender position - work sat and sunday- I have sent e-mails and have talked to them several times. I just kept getting a "we will see" or recently e-mail and no reply back.

So I put myself back on the market. I did not want to do this but, I want to have my baby looked after by people he knows and plus daycare is crazy expensive. -And I got an interview and even told them the story and how I really like my job but they could not accomodate my needs. To make a long story short - the new place offered me a job and I jumped on it. The same day, I told my current supervisor and it seemed like she brushed it off and really did not have to much to say to me. - That was upsetting-. So today my supervisor called and said she was willing to work with me on getting a weekender position and I should call her back.

I really do not know what to do. I like my job but I said yes to the other job. But my current job, it went this far to make them notice I was serious. Another thing is that the new job, a friend recommended me and I don't want to make her look bad if I were to decline. Plus this new job is a really good opportunity to learn new skills and will be easier for me to get to when I move. --- Any suggestions?

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If it were me, I would take the new job. The old job still hasn't guaranteed anything, and it sounds like "too little, too late."

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Specializes in EMS~ ALS.../...Bartending ~ Psych :).

Willing to work with you get weekends.... They should have been "working" with you since your first request... and still nothing is set in stone....

I would say that your current place of employment has just lost a really good nurse....

Good Luck with your new adventure

J.Q.

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I think I would leave. If you are going to eventually due to the move, it is going to happen any way.

You have given them a year to work with you and now they want to? I learned a long time ago that the words "work with you" and "support your plan" are just fluff to look good. Unless they were to offer it in writing, in their blood, it could change any day so what are they really offering? You don't owe them anything except the proper notice. They owed you a proper response before it got to the point of you looking and taking another job.

Any time you can get new skills without causing problems in your own life, go for it.:up:

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Specializes in medical.

I agree with previous responses, take a new job and don't look back. It really looks to me:nurse: that management in your old job doesn't care enough about nurses.

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I would go with the new job. It sounds like the better long-term situation.

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Specializes in MICU/SICU.
...my current job, it went this far to make them notice I was serious. .. this new job is a really good opportunity to learn new skills and will be easier for me to get to when I move.

Sounds to me like you answered your own question. Good luck!:yeah:

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If it were me, I would take the new job. The old job still hasn't guaranteed anything, and it sounds like "too little, too late."

:yeahthat:

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Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.

I used to work at a hospital that the only way a current employee got a weekend job was to put in a 2 week notice for another job.

I would only stay at your current position if they give you conditions you find acceptable in writing, and sorry to way, it's not likely to happen.

Good luck with whatever job you choose to go with, I think you will be going to the new job!

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Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.

I have learned in my short stint as a nurse that employers have no loyalty to employees. They will cancel you at low census; call you like crazy when they are short staffed. It's not personal, it's business.

That, in turn, is my response to my nursing jobs - I will do what is best for myself and my family. Period. No loyalty, not anymore.

Do what would be best for you and your family. Best wishes!

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Thanks all for replying

-So my manager sat me down the other day and asked if i would stay if she offered me a position. - I said I would have to see something in writing - she said that she would have the paperwork on monday and asked if i would reconsider quitting - it is a little more money than I would get at the other hospital - but is it really about the money - no. I have learned the last few days that nurses on the unit are cutting down on there hours and others are considering leaving. A lot of nurses are mad with the short staffing and the ignorance of the manager.

The unit I am on really should be a stepdown unit and be staffed appropriately. But it seems like when we say that to the manager, it falls on deaf ears. The ICU has many times sent us a patient that in an hour or so have had to send right back up. This team has accepted people from outside hospitals that are inappropriate - basically dump offs and I heard that they even accepted a pt who arrived dead. It seems like there is no system of checks and balances across the board (in our unit or for this service). I love the experience of hard pts but come on....with this much dissatisfaction and dangerous staffing at times....grrrrr its time to leave

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