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**RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN** · Oct 18, 2005

I'm starting nursing school next year, but currently I'm a nursing assistant. I walked out on my job recently and I was wondering if anyone is aware of the laws concering abandonment in Maryland.

Welcome to the site. Enjoy your stay and best wishes to you. :balloons:

I am not sure, but try posting it in the Maryland forum.

decartes · Oct 18, 2005

I don't think that there are any laws against quitting a job unless you're bound by a contract.

A universal rule which you broke was burning one of your bridges. It's best to end relationships in an amicable manner.

I'm starting nursing school next year, but currently I'm a nursing assistant. I walked out on my job recently and I was wondering if anyone is aware of the laws concering abandonment in Maryland.

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Oct 18, 2005

Did you walk out in the middle of your work shift? If so, it's up to the facility to decide to make a report to any state agency that regulates the practice of nursing assistants. In my years of experience working in nursing homes I've had a few nursing assistants who left in the middle of their shifts and never heard any of them had been reported. Nursing assistants come and go so often in nursing homes that I think many of them aren't even phazed that much when people leave and they have to replace them. Often, it's almost a mutual thing--what I mean is that the nursing home is glad the nursing assistant left.

I would say that if the nursing home was going to report you to the Maryland BON they might have informed you. Otherwise, if they did report you, you will be hearing from the BON. I wouldn't call the BON to find out. You may have not been reported and a call from you might start an investigation of you. You don't want that. I would just go along with your life. You will know soon enough if the BON was notified and wants to take action against you.

There may be a way to access the Maryland nurse practice act on the Internet. You would want to be looking for law regarding nursing assistants and their certification, not the RN practice act. Next time bite your lip and stay until the end of your shift no matter how hard it is. Better yet, get them to send you home, then you are off the hook for any abandonment. Best way to do that is just get subordinate with supervisors or charge nurses. (You didn't hear me say that.)