haitianrn

I used to work part time every sat and sunday at a LTC facility.Yesterday they told me that now I would only be PRN.tHEY COULDVE FIRED ME, BUT i GUESS THEY WERE TRYING TO AVOID PAYING UNEMPLOYMENT....?I don't think they realize their own faux pas, since they essentially reduced my hours. They also said "You will still be in our system", as if that was supposed to make it better! So, I went ahead and filed unemployment and am waiting to hear if I qualify, due to a reduction in hours? I've been calling the scheduler to see if I will work at all this weekend, and she seems to be avoiding me as well. I have a feeling I will never hear from them and this was their slick way of avoiding firing me. I haven't done anything wrong with regards to patient care or been absent---the reasons they gave me for making me PRN had to do with proper documentation, remembering to fill in gaps in my MAR, which are things all the other nurses there have also been short on time to do.(Its a crazy place, 32 residents per nurse, only 2 nurses!).And I was not written up about the MAR or the documentation, so if the unemployment office asks if they followed due process, they did not.I live in IL and its employment at will, but still, I would think I qualify for unemployment.Any thoughts?

i actually dont care much for pysche and i have a shy personality and am worried these men would sense that...i'd rather work med surg or anything else where my nursing skills wouldnt go to waste, pysche is just a different skill set. i was just thinking that at least id be at a hospital and could transfer to med surg, etc after a year in the pysche floor if i lasted that long. hospital jobs are so hard to come by these days, but i dont want to leave a nice paying job where im comfortable for one thats not so easy and probly pays less than 30 per hour......im just trying to think in terms of long term career growth and also the hospital has great benefits including tuition assistance and on-site BSN/MSN.....BUT I JUST AM AFRAID OF AN ALL MALE AGGRESSIVE FLOOR....it's like putting dorothy from kansas inside a prison ward.....

I currently work at a LTC facility just weekends. Been there a year and just got my rn and they gave me a nice raise so now i earn 30 per hour.I interviewed for a weekend staff nurse job at a hospital thats well known. only problem is that it is on an all male pysche floor that was described as being intense and aggressive. NOT SURE IF I can handle it...my long term goal is to get my MSN and become a clinical nurse specialist or educator.should i stay at the ltc where im comfortable or go to the hospital job i may not like/

the previous poster is right.The new grad RNs i see end up at nursing homes very unhappily so not by choice. I don't know why it seems that so many new grads want to come to chicago IT IS NO DIFFERENT than any other job market now

Hi, I'd like to know which hospitals hire RNs to work 10pm-6am ?it seems most (resurrection, etc) only have 11pm-7am as far as night shift. I have child care/take kids to school in morning issues and can't work 11pm-7am nor 7am-7pm nor 7pm-7am.Pretty much limits my options, I know, but my kids are under 2 years old and daycare way too much money, while my other one is 5 and has to be in school by 8am. Working until 7am I'd never make it on time to take him to school. How do those of you with kids that are young and no family help do it???

Hi, I've been an LPN for a year now at a nursing home and will soon become an RN, hoping to land a hospital position. Does my one year LPN count as experience by a hospital, or just RN?

BUMP----Anybody have any input, opinions?

The instructors at my nursing school( a community college in Chicago) told us that their annual salary is round 62,000 annually including summers. They have masters of course in tracks such as Leadership, or Education. To me, that seems like a decent salary considering the work conditions are great compared to a floor nurse. I envy them and especially because I have young kids, would love a job like that. My question is, from reading these threads, many are saying they barely make that much and say teaching doesn't pay the bills. Is this really so bad, and are the instructors at my school jut lucky? i want to pursue a MSN and so far the teaching track is most feasible for me in terms of cost, convenience , and time compared to say the CNS track, which is my preference. I was wondering if I got the MSN in teaching now could I go back later and get a post masters certificate as a CNS? I just cant do the CNS now and think Id rather teach in the meantime than be a floor nurse forever, but not if the pay sucks.

Hi, I am researching the online rn to MSN DEGREE OPTIONS AND WAS WONDERING WHICH ONES WOULD LEAD TO ME WORKING AS A CNS SOMEDAY AT A HSPITAL. I am looking at Uniersity of phoenix, and chamberlain and their MSN offers an educator track, or an executive trak, but not one that says specifically CNS track. Will I be able to work as a CNS if I finish one of those tracks above or do I need to find a school offring the CNS track specifically? My teacher said I can as long as I have any MSN but just wanted to be sure.

My credit is horrible and I don't have a cosigner for student loans, which are harder to get nowadays eeven with good credit. I was wondering if its possible to pay for NURSE PRACTITIONER SCHOOL out of pocket if I continued to work full time/PART TIME as an RN? I WOULD PROBABLY ATTEND AN ONLINE SCHOOL. HAS ANYONE HERE PAID OUT OF POCKET? HOW HARD WAS IT TO SAVE THE $?

i ATTENDED tRITON cOLLEGE IN rIVER gROVE, and they, too make us take the HESI, in both their LPN and the RN PROGRAM. SO, its not just the city colleges....

I agree with you, but HR justified their actions by saying that they had to cover thier own tails in case I didnt accept their offer. He should have just postponed his interviews until they heard back from me, or at least warned me what might happen....gee wiz, I thought I was doing the right thing , being professional and honest by saying I need a day or two. Maybe i should have said yes and then left them if the other job offer came thru, but i just didnt think that was the right thing to do and now i'm being punished for it.....

I am so bewildered by something that just happened-I interviewed at 2 places as an LPN. One at a psych facility, another a nursing home. The pysch facility's DON assured me verbally that theyd make me an offer and she even had me come in and take a drug screen in the office, copied my SS card, license. Said the offer would be formalized after the drug screen results.That was three days ago. In the mean time, 2 days ago, I got a job offer for a nursing home that I wasnt crazy about since it was only PRN. I told HR that I'd like a day or 2 to think it over and asked him if I could get back to him in a day or two. He said Fine. Well, I called him back today to accept their PRN offer since the DOn from the other psych place still hasnt formally offered me the job. To my dismay, when I told the guy I accepted his offer, he said, "well, now its contingent because we had to keep interviewing others. You have to move very quickly in healthcare.I will try and fight for you, tell me why you want this position? ". he basically said the job offer they made me was no longer valid since I hadnt accepted it right away! It seems a bit unprofessional to me that they'd turn around and do that, especially after he said it was ok if i thought about it a day or 2.Any thoughts? Now I am not sure I have a job anywhere, cuz the one at the pysch place was just a verbal assurance that Id get an offer, but I have yet to hear from them, even after I left a message yesterday asking them to confirm/finalize it.

OK, moderator, plse close this thread now. I already feel the wrath of some posters. My decision has been made on what I must do.Thanks to all who took the time to reply without passing judgement, and to those who did prejudge me, its not you putting food on my table or a roof over my head.

we ll, i just asked HR what their policy is, they told me they only verify title and dates and that it is considered a neutral reference.In that case, since I know that now, should I just say I was let go because they told me I wasnt a good fit? I dont see the point in my bringing up my absences if they wont.... The only question would be that the new employer may ask me to elaborate on why I wasnt a good fit, in which case I have no clue.I guess I could say that was all the reason they gave for terminating me, right?