Old Nurse, New Employee

[Marisette, BSN, RN]

So I finally left my previous nursing employer. I spent 27 years working there as an RN, and my employer did not even flinch when I resigned. I left my pager and the long commutes to patient's home behind and I was excited to start my new triage job. I feel I did not misrepresent myself during the interview.

After a four day period of training, the only triage RN in the clinic told me she was going on FMLA. She was training an agency nurse my first week at the job, so I worked in the clinical area. Apparently, she requested leave several weeks ago, but the clinical manager and triage nurse did not inform me there was no one to train me before I left my old job. The manager does not know how to do triage and cannot train me. The agency nurse hired to cover the nurse on FMLA is not allowed to train me.

It's a busy 10 physician practice and one of the physician likes to roll her eyes and gossip about me with my trainer. The agency nurse called to cover the nurse going on FMLA appears to know the EMR after 5 days of training because "he is a fast learner". I think he has been exposed to this EMR before. I think he just took advantage of a week of training that could have been given to me.

I'm ok with most of the nursing aspect, but I can't figure out their archaic EMR. I'm usually very good with the EMR, but the nurse training me jumps back and forth with no intention of really teaching me. So I click away and hope that I'm doing the right thing.

Today, she stopped the training and shouted criticisms. I demanded she stop or I would leave. I think she stopped because she feared I was going to go over her head. When I interviewed, I was told my training would be extended to meet my needs. But I think I was expected to work alone today, after 4 days of triage training, and not very good training either.

If I had only waited 9 more years, I would be employed into early retirement. However, Nine years seems like an eternity when your doing something you don't like anymore.

Can anyone tell me about the New employee rules these days. How long is training typically? How does a new employee respond to an unwelcoming environment?