I am a new NP, I just started what I thought was my dream job about one month ago. I work in a huge health system in my area. I was hired into a specialty clinic with just the specialist and myself. I thought it was great because he was a great teacher, and I felt that it would be a great long term partnership. At the end of week three of my employment, my supervisor tells me that the specialist is resigning.
I asked the doctor about why he would leave and why no one told me during my interview or when I first started. He showed me a text and email from administration telling him not to tell me! They purposefully lied to me about the position and lied to me about not knowing he was leaving.
Now they are supposedly looking for someone to replace him, but apparently they have been looking for a year and a half and have not found anyone.
I am worried about my job. They are planning on dumping the whole practice on me, which is completely unsafe. The temporary specialist that they're trying to contact will not be invested in me at all.
Do I have any recourse? Should I look for a new job?
If I stay I definitely want a raise given my work will essentially be almost doubled.
Stay there and work through the transition with the option, in writing, that if it does not work out for you and the new specialist, you will be given a stellar letter of recommendation. Who knows, it might even work out better.
Specializes in ICU, Telemetry, Cardiac/Renal, Ortho,FNP.
Well, I guess I have a slightly different perspective. I fully agree with the above comments that things will NOT get better but I would say "maybe" you can use the situation to your advantage. I do NOT trust any employer any more, nor should have ever, since there have always been complications not brought on by me. My current situation is similar in the sense I took the job for VERY specific reasons and all of which disappeared less than 7 months into it and there is no way they didn't at least know of these possible changes. If they didn't know then that is also disturbing b/c it means they are incompetent. Long and short of it I had to adapt but it meant a 15% pay raise and a 4 day work week, which for now, is satisfactory for my first year on the job. I don't think this will last forever but their "need" played to my advantage since I was somewhat flexible. Of course, my advice would be to always be prepared to leave any job but starting out that is a little more difficult-got a few years under your belt and it's easier. Not telling you to stay but if they REALLY need you to it might be worth it to renegotiate based on the situation, find an internal advocate (maybe the doc) and get some more bene's out of the gig for now. Or not. You do have some "possible" options.
Specializes in ER, HH, CTICU, corrections, cardiology, hospice.
I witnessed a similar situation at a homeless clinic I worked at. They hired a bunch of people who believed they were staying in the county system. The folks doing the interviews knew that the county was dropping the clinic and did not tell the applicants. When they were hired, they soon found out about the neglected fact. Most split.
I'd have split as well. If an employer cannot be honest there is no trust.
RUN! that's all I can say to you. You need an employer you can trust. For Pete's sake, you are dealing with lives here and if you make a mistake its your license not your employer's. In the end, you lose if you stay, especially that you know that you are not ready to deal with patients by yourself without guidance.
LadyIce
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Stay there and work through the transition with the option, in writing, that if it does not work out for you and the new specialist, you will be given a stellar letter of recommendation. Who knows, it might even work out better.