I'm about to graduate from nursing school in May 17' and have started to apply to jobs. I've applied to 2 hospitals. 1 hospital has a generic new grad nurse app. The other has individual apps for each dept. that is hiring GN's.
Anyway today I received a rejection email from one of the hospitals basically saying they weren't interesting in hiring me. So this completely eliminates 1 of my 2 options as far as hospitals go.
My MAIN question is would it be appropriate to email the recruiting team to see why my application was rejected? It is bothering me so much that they didnt even give me a chance.
I do believe I figured out why they denied me. On the application it ask if you have ever been fired or asked to resign. My answer is yes. 2 years before I started nursing school I was working for the family dr, and she ended up firing me about 6 months later. That is a very long story that I won't go into detail in. I honestly am a very hard worker and think she mainly fired me bc she just didn't like me. In the application for this hospital it ask for an explanation for why you were fired and this is what I said:
" I was hired by dr. smith as a CNA. She asked me to resign due to the need to have someone with a higher skill level in the nursing practice. Dr. Smith had no RN's/LVN's or CNA's in her practice while I was working there and it made it difficult to train me to a skill level she needed. Dr. Smith was an MD and an anesthesiologist and was able to do more complex procedures in her office. At the time I had a very basic skill level prior to being admitted into nursing school. I was working for Dr. Smith part time and was taking Nursing pre-reqs full time. Prior to being asked to resign I had also been highly contemplating resigning due to my need to focus on school. It was a mutual decision on both ends."
- some words were abbreviated just for this text purpose not in my actual app.
This became a long novel and my life story. But I am just extremely bothered by the idea of being completely denied even an interview for being fired from a job I held almost 4 years ago. I know there could be other reasons why they may not go with me but this is the only legitimate one I have found.
LindseyLou14
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Does anyone think it's a good/bad idea to reapply to that hospital to the same position, and restating some things