Hello Everyone much needed advice/insight is needed.
I started a new job back in March just before COVID started to get really crazy. Since I was the last one in my department to get hired I was redeployed on two occasions to other areas of the hospital. First time was May-June for about 5 weeks to another unit who needed help due to crazy high censes. The second deployment was for 6 weeks again on another COVID unit who really needed help which I just finished this week. Both of these deployments taught me a lot but at the same time was not my choice. I was grateful to still have a job so really I was willing to go anywhere the hospital told me too.
Anyways my manager came to me on my "home unit" and she said since I am still rather new to my home department (March 2020) that the night shift supervisor still needs more time to evaluate me on nights as most of my time there I have been working other units (for COVID deployment),
I don't want to sound overly confident but I know I am an amazing nurse my home unit has already given me two written recognitions based on my skills in my limited time there from my unit manager. The two new units I worked on also gave me the same praise and actually asked me to stay there full time as I demonstrated good skills.
For some reason I cannot let it go that my home unit wants to keep me on probations for a full year. The written outline said it was not based on my skills/abilities but it was to evaluate me on nights shift with that supervisor. I feel hurt to be honest. Am I overthinking this? I have been a nurse for 6 years and have worked at 4 hospitals for a bit of history, my last employer which I am per diem now at I worked there for 4.5 years.
I’ve worked at one hospital that had a probation period and it was clearly defined in the job offer. I would say review your job offer, and look if the length is specified. You mention being deployed for 5 weeks and 6 weeks. It would seem to me that this means your probation should be extended by at most 11 weeks.
I would be asking for a sit down meeting with the manager to discuss what grounds she has to extend your probation by so many months beyond what you have missed. I normally think involving HR is a waste of time but in this case I probably would, adding stipulations to your employment with no performance based reason is just unfair.
If I were you I would also give serious thought to accepting one of these offers;
“The two new units I worked on also gave me the same praise and actually asked me to stay“
Your current situation gives me serious reservations about the managers/ supervisors on your current unit.
I would definitely check into this further. Look at your sign on paper work re: probation. It probably doesn't mention floating one way or the other but I would check. I don't see why the time floating to a different unit in the same hospital would not count as part of your probationary period, it doesnt make sense. It is not just the benefits that matter in this case, it is also the fact they can let you go more easily.
Does this year long "probation" come with any limitations? Are you not able to care for certain patients bc of it? Also, what type of unit are you in? Is it specialized which would require more training?
amoLucia
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'Deployment' kind of like the use of the word 'mitigate'. It's been cropping up all over.