bigdreams08

I will attempt to make this short and sweet. I got a PRN job close to home, in addition to my full time position that was a good drive. My full time job I had been at for a year and half. The PRN position was not very often. After being PRN for a couple of months, the DoN calls and asks if I would be interested in full time nights. I declined. Two weeks later, she calls back and asks again. I took the opportunity to be closer to home and family. Well now, less than 2 months later, I'm fired. I have never ever been fired. She calls me in, says the other night nurses I work with have "concerns" and that I transcribed an order to the physician orders but not to the MAR. I told her that I didn't put that order on the MAR because it was a duplicate, and it needed clarification, which I informed the day nurse who did rounds with the doctor that came in that day. Apparently, she never got clarification. I was never made aware of any concerns, hell I thought we all got along well. That was that, and I was terminated. No warning, no nothing. I left in complete and utter shock. Does any of this sound right?

If I go back to weekends, I lose my insurance, and won't be able to get any medical attention then either. There's no other shifts that I can take.

I haven't been there long enough for FMLA. I have no options available for any kind of leave. There is no second job, I'm only working at this one LTC facility. The main issue that I'm seeing is that they have a nursing shortage already due to the DoN being a difficult person. One of the CNAs is having medical issues, not work related, and has missed many many more days, and has not been wrote up. They have an overage of CNAs, but no nurses. The DoN has alienated everyone, so now she has no PRN nurses.

I only passed one of the ATI tests, out of the hundreds that I took, yet I passed my classes and my boards. I didn't like those dang things, and I don't see how a predictor can truly predict anything if you can pass your class!

I am asking/ venting about my current situation... I graduated 8 mo ago, got licensed, etc. I was hired at my current job (LTC) 5 months ago. I started as PRN, but the first weekend there, I was bumped up to baylor on weekends. From there, I went to 1st shift M-F. The end of January, I began working extra shifts, as we have a huge nursing shortage. After a few days of doubles, I began having severe back pain that radiates down my legs, more my right leg than my left. My dr claims it's arthritis, but I tend to disagree... since seeing him 3 weeks ago, I am still having the back/leg pain, and it seems that every joint (knee, ankle, shoulder, elbow) is achy and painful to move. My job has written me up for being out when I first began hurting (I had a dr's note), and is now threatening to write me up, continously leading to termination for any other days that I miss, with or without a dr's note. Random notes to go along with the story... *One of the days that the dr had taken me out, they called me trying to get me to come in to work, knowing I was in pain, and had been told to not work by my dr. I didn't go. *The week prior to my back spazzing out, the administrator had flowers delivered to me at work, with a card thanking me "for all that I do", the next week I was wrote up and basically threatened to be fired for missing due to my medical issues. *Last week, I was vomiting repeatedly while at work, and informed the DoN and QA nurse. I told them at 1030a I would like to go home, and she told me she would find someone to take my keys. I did not speak or see her again, I didn't get to leave until 3p, my normal time. *The next day after vomiting, I was still sick, so I called out. The DoN called me that morning, and told me that to prevent me from getting wrote up, I needed to work 3rd that night. She has taken to threatening me with write-ups and getting fired since I first started hurting and I just can't deal with it. I need to work to keep the insurance, but I can't work in pain, and I can't miss days and keep my job. So any ideas here? I am at a loss. I feel completely lost on this entire thing. I feel that I have let my family down by being hurt, and I'm about to lose my job because I am hurt, and there's nothing I can do. If anyone has any advice, I'm all ears!!!

I am a newly licensed LPN, but I can contribute to this.... My very first day of nursing clinical.... my very first patient.... Maggot therapy... I thought I was going to die!! Luckily, the CNA suffocated the maggots, because she put the plastic backed bed pad under the patient. That in turn suffocated them. The physical therapist was pi$$ed when she came to check on her *babies*.... Also, at another point in my clinical experience... I was doing rounds with Hospice at various LTC facilities and one had some visitors from the state... After a little investigating, it came out that they were there because a patient had a massive neighborhood of fly babies living in their heel wound. Nothing important, just adding my stories... Have a great day!

thank you for expressing my thoughts exactly! you also gave me the first smile of my doomsday of today! i have cried tears of fear and sadness today, but you just made me cry tears of laughter!! that is my feeling right now, down to the monkey!!! :chuckle

Thank you for the support ned2bnurse. It is very much appreciated! I hope to be posting positive results soon!

I too took my NCLEX PN today, and I've been in tears all day. I am not sure how I did. I began thinking, "this is easy" then came the "wth" questions. I don't want to tell anyone that I graduated with that I actually took it, even though I know they will support me either way, I just don't want the pity from them. They know my "story" and my desire for my license, so they would give pity, thinking they were being supportive, if that makes sense. :imbar