I have posted many a times about my horrible first RN job that which I started 10 weeks ago. Things have REALLY gotten bad. I talked to my manager about the latest issues and she pretty much made up excuses for everything. Sorry, I worked to hard for this license. 1,2, 3 strikes I'm out.
I want to keep it short and simple. Mind you that I am leaving on bad terms b/c I am not giving any notice. Please don't call it unprofessional, I am not at fault at all.
Date
Human Resouce
hospital
city, state
To whom it may concern:
It is with regret that i must reign my position as a Registered nurse effective on this date of October 19, 2005.
Sincerely,
raindrop.
I found this "simple" resignation letter on monster. My BF says that the "regret" implies to him, and maybe will to human resource, that I liked my job and had a positive experience, overall.
Considering that I am not giving notice and have complained to HR and my manager 2 times, I know that they will know better....but what if I ever have to go to court, god forbid, and the judge reads it like how my BF did.
Since we cannot hire ourselves, write our own reviews, or give ourselves raises at a job, we are in a position of inferiority. It would be nice, but it ain't happenin'!
Since we cannot hire ourselves, write our own reviews, or give ourselves raises at a job, we are in a position of inferiority. It would be nice, but it ain't happenin'!
They can not run the hospital without the worker. They can not get patient care done, get rooms cleaned get food served without the worker.
To me that makes the worker equal not inferior. If you had a business why on earth would you hire inferior people? Why not just do it all yourself?
Simply because you can't.
We have a family business we employ yard boys, detailers, mechanics, salesmen, administrative clerks, title processors, bookkeepers etc. We are pretty hard up to run our business when one of these leave. We generally loose business until we can get a replacement.
Trust me being my employee does not make them inferior. If anyone is inferior it is my husband and I becuase they have knowledge and skill that we do not that is needed to run this type of business.
Yes we sign the checks, we fire and hire and we do the perfornance evaluations and you know what? IF we do not do a good job at those things we loose our workers, we loose the ablity to attract new workers and like I said the result has always been we loose business.
I understand your frustation. I am a new grad, graduated Dec2004 and passed NCLEX RN Feb 2005. I was working as a nurse extern in a VERY popular Specialty Hopital here in South Texas and immediatley accepted into the internship program. In order for me toget into that position, my NM wanted me to do backflips and run through hoops to prove myself that I "belonged" there. I really wanted to work OR so I was willing! Then I graduated.....it ALL went down hill from there. My NM was literally looking over my shoulder at everyturn and corner. One time I innocently asked how long she wanted me to scrub in before I could start circulating? She tuned around and screamed at me," Why??? Are you too good to scrub in? You made your self out to someone who really wanted to be here, I think I am now wrong about you! Get out of my face!!!!" So I ran out crying, thinking maybe something was said wrong and maybe I misunderstood!. Another day my scrub tech and I were in the breakroom taking an early break before our surgery. My NM walked by my and pinched my arm. " In my office, NOW!" We all looked at each other and I followed my NM to her office. She tuned around and tore right into me, " What the HELL gives you the right to take a break!!! You think you are too good for us now you are an RN! What....Are you trying to snag a Dr.???? Ahhhh....Are you Crying????? Get out of MY FACE!!!!!!!" At this poin I was stunned!!!!! And that point I made sure to stay away from her at all costs! Then I heard from the grapevine there was a female scrub tech who did not like me and "report" to the NM how I was nortrying and "really" didn't want to be there. Of course the NM never took me aside and ASKED me. There were other verbal attacks. I would literally have panic attacks drving closer to work and start getting sick. I finally couldn't take it anylonger, called and QUIT!!!! I had never felt soooo relieved in my life. And I still have not made it back to clean out my locker and I DON'T CARE!!!! LOL I have all my surgical caps and my Dansko's in there and I don;t care! :balloons: When I started applying for another job, I was honest up front about quiting without notice. I have it in my resume. I do not try to hide it. I am now working for the state of TEXAS as a night charge nurse and I am SOOOOOOOO Loving my job!!!!! I never would have found it if I had not quit my previous job. I keep hearing about the Texas do not hire list. So far I have not come across it. You have to do what works for you. Your health and wellbeing is more important!
Harassment, pinching and in-your-face humiliation. Very cute. Have you thought about having assault and harrassment charges brought against this (ahem) individual? I wouldn't rest, until I had the satisfaction of seeing HER publicly humilated in court and in front of the BON! :angryfire
The problem being that family businesses and full blown corporations in the health care field bear few similarities. Especially when CEO's view nurses as "expendable resources".
The day a manager/co-worker/doc lays a hand on me is the day I call the cops.
I had a boss make an extremely rude sexual remark to me. I stared at him for a few seconds, then said, "If I were you, I would rethink making a comment like that again to me, or any other female staff member." I think he got the point; he never hassled me again.
Okay, I'll probably take some knocks on this one, but here it goes: Would it have been better to give 2 weeks notice? Sure, but in many places, a 2-week notice is ONLY a courtesy, NOT a requirement.
I'm with you, raindrop. Had I been in your situation, I probably would have done the same. Better to quit while you're ahead than to risk losing your license if something went wrong that you weren't prepared to deal with...
i was just reading "i'm a florest now" thread. it reminded me of something. one hospital put on a "retreat" that was designed to foster better communications between physicians and nurses.
guess who the nurese were that were invited to attend. you guessed it! it was not the beside nurse. yes i said invited because you did not attend without an invite.
from this evolved a list of what nurses should do before and during a call to a physician. all common sense. however, take this handy tip for example. have the chart when you call. that is fine except you get the answering service and you have to waite until the doc calls you. in the mean time you could be doing any of a number of things that take you away from the chart.
not to mention that you often have to call some docs multiple times before they even return a call.
the problem i have with all this is simply. the responsibility for good communications is all put on the nurse. the nurse not the high and mighty phyusician is held responsible to communicate clearly with the doctor. the list is designed so that doctors are not called unessairly. for example one of the things was to discuss it with another nurse and if that didn't solve it discuss it with your charge nurse before calling the doctor.
i can appreciate not putting in frivilious calls but there was no guide line to doctors for them not to inconvience nurses. there were no guide lines for physicians to give clear orders, to waite for the nurse to read back what she wrote, or even to give her a chance to find the chart.
speaking of finding charts, don't you just love it when a doc takes a chart for hours on end and having written a now or stat order which he did not communicate to you and then has a hissy fit that it was not done state. note order written at 1310 and it is now 1500 when he finally gives up the chart. or when he takes a chart and just leaves it anyplace.
when he writes orders and never consults with you, never lets you know he is there and never flags in anyway that orders have been written.
all the communications responsibility is put on the nurse.
some hospitals will defend rude and othewise horrible behavior from docs because they bring in $$$ by bringing in patients. the staff has to take it. the staff is blamed if things are not going smoothly.
some will accept it from patients and visitors because they are customers ($$)
it reminds me of the words to an old country western song where a mother turns her daughter, fancy, out to prostitution because they are poor. "be nice to the gentlemen, fancy."
exactly why nurses are seen as inferior. i don't agree that we are, but this is a stellar example.
Well, I do have to say that your not going to die if you stay for two more weeks. I've currently had a situation in which I love my job, but I'm going back to school and have to leave it. Being afraid of being put on the "black list" as they call it. My situation is I started at my job as a new grad in the ICU. I just got out of orientation last month and on resource now which is I still have someone to go to for questions. I had great training (6 months, almost 7) before I took my own patients. I'm not able to drop to a part time status because they believe that I'm too new to keep my patients safe and work part time. So, I am forced to leave and find a part time position elsewhere to maintain my decision on going back to school.
Sorry they threw you to the wolves. Sometimes you just have to stand up and be courteous and say, "hey, I need help". Go to Human Resources, go above your manager. Do what you can to make it safe to practice. There are always resources. If it doesn't work, put in your two weeks, but be professional about it. And the fact of the matter may be, right now, without the proper training, you shouldn't be in an ICU. Get out of it. Start out slower. You have that right to protect you patients as well as your license, you've earned it.
It would be nice to think that if you do things the "right" way, karma will work in your favor. However, I had the lovely experience of applying for another job, putting down my supervisor for a reference and finding out that she fibbed to the HR person at the other hospital because she didn't want me to leave. She told them I had a problem with attendance-keep in mind that the time out she was referring to was a medical leave for surgery that was backed up with a doctors note etc etc. That was the only "negative" aspect of the reference and it didn't work anyway LOL. Thankfully, the HR rep asked me about it, and it wasn't a problem after that. My point is that if your workplace is truly that toxic-they'll still find a way to stick it to you. Also, I have true sympathy for all you nurses who work in Texas-don't think I'll be moving there anytime soon!
I would not put in the letter that "I regret". I would put:
Date
To Whom it May Concern:
"Please accept this as my notice of resignation, effective 99-99-99".
Sincerely,
Raindrop, RN
I've quit jobs without giving notice - not because I'm a crappy person but just because if I had to stay one more hour I would have exploded! Some jobs are just like that. Have never had any problems because of it.
I agree that saying you 'regret' resigning does sound like you liked it but just have to leave due to circumstances beyond your control. I like the letter RazorbackRN came up with. Polite, and to the point.
Good luck - hope you find a job you can live with or, with some luck, even like :wink2:
so familiar. im out too
IMustBeCrazy
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Since we cannot hire ourselves, write our own reviews, or give ourselves raises at a job, we are in a position of inferiority. It would be nice, but it ain't happenin'!