New Nurse Fired for wanting more training

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I was hired by the facility that I worked as a CNA....they offered me an LPN job once I passed my boards this past January.....I was literally thrown on the floor with only 4 days of training and lied to about how I was going to have more training, which I should've had 2 weeks....I was furious and I ended up working a med cart in LTC by myself for 3 weeks and in the process of working the cart the DON was riding me every day about something I didn't do or forgot to do or some documentation that I didn't do right or whatever, it was always something....and keep in mind just about each day I asked for more training, the training they told me that I would get but I never received. I was literally so tired of this DON stalking me it was crazy....I started to hate to be a nurse, I didn't like my job....I got off work late and slept most of the day....I was really thinking about going PRN.....finally after 3 weeks of asking for more training the DON came to me last Friday and said I am going to give you 2 more days of training (this would give me a total of 6 days) on first shift and after that you are on your own....OK so Monday went well with training and Tuesday I thought was going well until it was about time for us to go home at 3 pm and the DON came and got me and the nurse that trained me....she talked to us one at a time, first the nurse that trained me, but when it was time for her to talk to me she told me to follow her....I was looking confused....so we walked and went into a room with the Employee relations lady and the DON basically told me that she was letting me go because she thinks I need to work in a hospital first to get more training.....She says after you come from the Hospital you come back here and I will hire you back....and I am thinking WTF...are you serious....so she then says that I don't know my Pharmacology....LOL....I said what...she said one nurse that trained me said that I didn't know what Robitussin was....I said you got to be kidding me.....I told her that I asked that nurse where was the Robitussin located on the med cart....I know exactly what it is and then I went to break it down to her what the drug is and the classification and all ....She couldn't say anything....I told her you guys knew I was a new nurse when you hired me and as a matter of fact the Administrator called me for a job.....she said I just really believe you need to go to the hospital and get your training and then come back.....I said The only training I needed was on documentation, policy and procedure etc that I never received from you guys....I said I didn't have class on this I was just thrown on the floor to work and you are letting me go because of this....she kept saying that was her reason for letting me go.....I was and still am at AWE....I worked for this place for 6 months....5 as a CNA and 1 as a nurse and all of a sudden she want to let me go because I asked for more training....I told her, its best for me to get the training I ask for, for the sake of the residents and I am trying to protect my license.....

I am going to be real with you guys....I was highly pissed....who gets fired for wanting more training.....I seriously think it was more personal because I was standing up to her previously asking for more training....I have thought about going to EECO on them and reporting them to the state board of nursing but I am not sure if I should. What do you guys think I should do....in the meantime I have been looking for work...this all happened yesterday....

I want to be a Nurse but after working at that LTC facility it put a rotten taste in my mouth. My mom says ever place is not bad and unorganized as that place. They have state coming in all the time, they are really short on Nurses and CNA's. Its sad I had to experience my first nursing job as such and turn around and get fired for just wanting more training....I am soooooo pissed!!!!

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I would be ticked too! That isn't enough training and it sounds like you got zero support. I wouldn't feel bad about leaving there though.

ANY new nurse they put into that situation would have struggled the same.

I am curious, how long did they orient you when you came on as a CNA?

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Why would you even want to work for people like that. You should feel lucky to get rid of them. They try to save money on your training, it shows how desperate they are, and that nobody else wants to work there.

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I would be ticked too! That isn't enough training and it sounds like you got zero support. I wouldn't feel bad about leaving there though.

ANY new nurse they put into that situation would have struggled the same.

I am curious, how long did they orient you when you came on as a CNA?

As a CNA I trained in the class room for a 4 days and on the floor for 5 days I believe....it was more taining than I received for the LPN....then they had the nerve to tell me I don't get classroom training because I had it as a CNA....I said what about the documentation training and they said you should have learned that when you were on the floor training....***!!!

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Why would you even want to work for people like that. You should feel lucky to get rid of them. They try to save money on your training, it shows how desperate they are, and that nobody else wants to work there.

Yes that is what my Mom and other said....be glad I am rid of them, I could have lost my license working for a place like that...and they wonder why they can't keep nurses.....The turn-over rate is very high in that LTC facility.....I am just pissed that they would wanna fire someone who just wants more training....its soooooooo beyond me!!!

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I will repeat what mystic fish said, because the same thing was told to me one time by one of my managers, why would you want to work for people that treat you like that? Whatever it was, and you will probably never find out, that DON developed a dislike for you, and decided you were not going to work out no matter what. That happens. As far as her telling you to go get experience at a hosp, that is a crock of ****, and you know it. LTC places hire new nurses before acute care hosp will; she knows it, and you know it. If you were to be hired at, and survive, at an acute care hosp, you certainly will have better opportunities open up before you than the place that just did you in. Suggest you just find another place. Get ready, b/c it is going to be harder to convince somebody to hire you. Good luck.

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I will repeat what mystic fish said, because the same thing was told to me one time by one of my managers, why would you want to work for people that treat you like that? Whatever it was, and you will probably never find out, that DON developed a dislike for you, and decided you were not going to work out no matter what. That happens. As far as her telling you to go get experience at a hosp, that is a crock of ****, and you know it. LTC places hire new nurses before acute care hosp will; she knows it, and you know it. If you were to be hired at, and survive, at an acute care hosp, you certainly will have better opportunities open up before you than the place that just did you in. Suggest you just find another place. Get ready, b/c it is going to be harder to convince somebody to hire you. Good luck.

Thanks for your response....I agree with everything you said...but why would it get hard to convince some one to hire me.....Espeically if it is a shortage of nurses out here? I am just curious....of course now I am going to have to get out here an interview for jobs.....

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Specializes in TCU, LTC.

What is reporting them to the State Board of Nursing going to do, exactly?

Are they breaking any laws?

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You have been let go, in essence, fired. That is always hard to explain and new employers always are biased to the employer's explanation. Many places will make the phone calls before you are even asked to interview, and you may not be considered for an interview at all. Some interviewers will talk to you only to hear what you have to say, with no intention of hiring you at all. They do this if they are told something "juicy" and/or to cover their behinds to say that all applicants were treated fairly in case you decide to complain to the EEOC as to why you weren't hired.

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What is reporting them to the State Board of Nursing going to do, exactly?

Are they breaking any laws?

I don't know thats why I asked the question. If nothing can be do so be it.

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You have been let go, in essence, fired. That is always hard to explain and new employers always are biased to the employer's explanation. Many places will make the phone calls before you are even asked to interview, and you may not be considered for an interview at all. Some interviewers will talk to you only to hear what you have to say, with no intention of hiring you at all. They do this if they are told something "juicy" and/or to cover their behinds to say that all applicants were treated fairly in case you decide to complain to the EEOC as to why you weren't hired.

Make sense....but to be honest I don't plan to use them on my resume. I took them off....so I am going in with zero experience....yeah this may hurt me but at least I dont have to use a company that I know didn't like me on my resume or application for referrence and risk the chance of them saying something way out of line about me...

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Be careful with this line of action. If you are ever caught, you can be immediately terminated for lying on your application. Hope you get away with it.

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