OMG I just got fired...what now?

[NurseSarah86]

Wow, I'm trying to type through tears right now & just got done trying not to hyperventilate from this. Here's how it went...I quit a LTC/Skilled facility a couple weeks ago to be at this job..an oral surgeon's office. The LTC facility was sooo stressful for me...being charge nurse fresh out of school and taking care of 45 residents by myself....Anyway the nurse that decided to hire me told me today at the end of the day in one of the x ray rooms that her and the doctors came to a decision to let me go d/t not learning the job quick enough...and its only been 2 weeks for me there!! There's a 4 week training period... And she lied, because when I grabbed my purse and stormed out of the place the doctors asked where I was going, and I said What you didnt know? I got fired!!! I asked her why did you hire me if you knew that I have no oral surgery or hygienist experience and hardly any nursing experience?? I know I'm a fairly quick learner but like most people I get nervous when I'm starting a new job. I think that is the shadiest any manager has ever treated me before. I've only been an LPN since march, and already I've been fired twice. Once as a GPN and today. I feel like giving up nursing forever, I've never been treated this way at any previous job, getting fired for what seems like no reason whatsoever..I know I'm a good nurse and a caring person, I take care of my pts to the best of my ability. So I don't know how I deserved this?! I would have never quit the nursing home if I knew this was gonna happen. I feel dumbstruck right now...I got along with everyone there including the doctors... Well..thanks for reading my vent. :trout:

[Agnus]

I was hired fresh out of nursing school into ICU. I had applied for a peids position they posted but never existed in reality (turns out it was part of a bait and switch)

Anyway I was a new grad. I had worked 1 year in a stepdown unit as an LPN. This ICU did not offer any education for new grads though they stated they would start doing it and I would be the first.

No ICU education ever materialized. They stated they do not hire new grads in ICU but wanted me because of my experience. (they did not hire new grads because they did not want to spend the $$ to train them)

Anyway to make a long story short I was deemed inexperienced (ya think?) and sent off to the worst med surg floor in the hospital the one every student knows she will not accept a job in. (Interesting way to fill a position that no one wants)

I went to the interview after being told it was for peids. There never was a peids position. Got sent to ICU were they do not hire new grads because of the cost of training (but they will make a training program for me) then when they do not train me send me off to the one floor that they could not get applicants to accept.

You do not want to stay there.

Have had more bad experiences in MD offices that are similar to yours. MD offices I find tend to be a very tight click and they click with the doctor. You are an intruder into this closed little world.

Like another poster said. Many people will hire you for things they believe you should already be skilled at. MDs do not know what our education is and expect things that are unrealistic.

The hospital hired me into ICU (I never hinted that I wanted to work in ICU) because they thought they could get an experienced ICU nurse for new grad wages. What they failed to realize that an LPN is not and RN and that a stepdown is not an ICU. ANd that an LPN with only one year in a step down ( that was all the LPN experience I had) does not = experienced ICU nurse.

[itsmyturn]

So sorry your having a rough time. You have got to find yourself some common ground and remember that your a new nurse...I would never accept jobs likes these just coming out of school because I would be doomed for failure. It must be so exiting getting offered these types of jobs but you have to be realistic and not put yourself in a position to fail, no matter how bad you want to be there...get the experience and one day you will be there and be proud.

I doubt seriously that you would want to return considering your exit, but you should find out who was your boss there, why you were fired and why you were not given proper orientation when they knew they were hiring a new grad in the first place. You need to re-establish your connection with the boss and clear up all misunderstandings so that you will have a good reference to fall back on and so that you can learn what you need to be able to make the next job better. If by chance they offer the position back to you, set up an orientation without fear of being fired, expect your situation to be explained to the other care team members and go from there.

And remember one other thing, it is not always you that has the problem but those working with you just don't want you there either because they are threatened or just have a problem with you. You have to go on and not let it get to you.

[cuddlebug]

If i were near you I would give you the biggest hug. Don't let this experience lead you away from nursing. I don't know what part of the country your in but really look into the facility before you agree to work there. I remember in nursing school when I did my clinicals..........I looked at the other nurses, observed their interactions with eachother. Did they smile every once in a while. What was their patient load or the facilities nurse to patient ratio. Was the facility organized? Where they friendly to student nurses? Did the other nurses work together as a team when needed? All these things are hard to find out when applying because you have to be on the floor to observe it. What about other nurse friends? Word travels. Its so hard when your new. You don't have a systematic method that works for you because your still learning. Finding supplies, the computer, procedures, policies. It just goes on and on. Hang in there. Take some time to think about it. You know there is a saying that nurses eat their young. Not all nurses are like that but when it happens it really hurts. Jumping this hurdle in your career will make you a stronger person.