I was excited being a new grad about this 'suppose' to be great position in a major magnet hospital that still does team nursing on a med/surg 44 bed floor..... until I got to the interview and the job matched nothing of the job description I applied for.
I'm in shock right now. I've spent 4 years in a level 1 trauma hospital that doesn't hire LPN's as a CNA in the trauma/neuro critical care and yet I have never seen something so badly managed as I have seen today.
So the job was 7p-7a and the job description said that the LPN would be under the supervision of an RN doing med passes and wound care and supervises CNA's. Well the unit manager tells me today that she will pay me 12.25 an hour (that's including shift diff) to work on nights with 4 other RN's and NO CNA's!!!!!!!!!!! As we are sitting through this interview I'm hearing call lights go off every 5 seconds and so on, staff running frantic up and down the halls and I'm thinking... you want me to do this, pass meds, and plus act as your CNA? cause I know those 4 RN's sitting behind that desk back there who are 'charting' their assessments are not getting up to help me wipe a single butt, and your gonna pay me a whole 2 bucks more than I'm making now doing a job in a less critical area? COME ON!
THEN for 20 minutes as I'm thinking I really do NOT want this job and little ticked that the job was nothing as of the job description I applied for, she tells me how she is new at this and how there will be no Unit Secretary at night either and how she has only been manager of the unit for 6 weeks so far... ::: puke :::
I told the lady I would get back to her, that she was my first interview since I had my license, which is a lie, but I do have 3 other interviews this week.
lindseylpn
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I'm in east tn too! Where is this so, I can help warn people too :)