Need advise on termination

Published Feb 23, 2018

54 Posts

Hello,

I have been recently been terminated from my 1 yr job with the company, specifically I was terminated yesterday. Though I wanted to move forward and get my life back together it has been hard and I don't even know where to start, so I really needed a good advise I can use.

My unit was recently opened and has a lot of flaws going on. I work in a med-surg unit 33 beds and my unit is an offsite from a hospital campus. They consider this unit as a "lodging" until stable for discharge or pending insurance etc.. Anyways, I'm not to sure how much the nurse to patient ratio is per state but in my State it has been a standard of 5:1 for any acute med-surg floor. My unit however differs and gave us 8-9:1 patient that are mixed in acuity. Reason I am telling this was because I have raised this concern to the union and have asked me to help them out so they can make this a better and safer working environment for all staffs. So ever since my manager knew about me working with union and how they have been asking her about her reason for her rules and action she started to hate me a lot. I once went to her office to seek for guidance about a staff behavior, instead of having it solve she went to that staff and told her what I said which created more conflict at work. She has been trying to find ways to get me out from the union either by telling me "This job is not for you. Go to sleep tonight and rethink if this is your calling." to sometime "You should tell your union you want someone else to work with them, not you." She have also asked me a time to write a letter addressing it to the union on how I believe their action or decision is wrong and I'm writing it on behalf of the management and the unit. I refuse to do for her and I told my union about it. Anyways, she hated me even more and have been waiting for me to possibly made an mistake and used it against me. Sadly, I made a human error. I sent a wrong email to myself that contain a person's name on my excel sheet. She used this against me on how I violated company policy and possibly HIPAA violation too. Union reassured me nothing will happen as they have had this similar issue with other staff or themselves too when their boss/ HR sent them HIPAA containing files and no suspension was given to them. I was placed on a 2 week unpaid suspension for "investigation" of intentionally knowing what I was sending. I got my verdict yesterday and I was given an option to resign within 7 days for a good record for referral or take fault and agree for termination. I haven't signed any papers with them at which one I have agreed. Union wants me to wait while they investigate themselves too and see if they can bring it to arbitrary and get my job back. I really don't know what to do. I love this company as I have worked so hard to work for them, I also have a love-hate relationship with my job depending how the day goes by. I am torn into just resign and not wait as to what my union will have to say as to wait for 4 days and see if I can have my job back maybe after a year when brought up to court.

They also claim that I have lied to them as I am aware of what I was doing. A secretary testified and showed them my text messages asking for help on how to send file on email and I was aware what it contain.

I don't even know what to respond to my coworkers when they have reached out to me asking where I have been and have missed out working my regular shifts with them. I don't even know what to write on my reason for leaving when applying for new jobs online.