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I love it! Thanks for the laugh!!!

I made really good money at my previous job so I make livable money on unemployment. Enough to pay the necessities and buy food.

:redbeatheThank you everyone. I have been applying for other jobs, I started applying in Jan., however this is a very rural town near the Canadian boarder so job opportunities are few and far between. I have interviewed for jobs but no job offer has come so I might need to hire that lawyer. I did go see a lawyer in Jan. he told me that this hospital is known for doing things like this and that we could have pursued this as a wrongful discharge. However, I did not file a grievance right away so this would be an uphill battle. I am not sure if I am getting a bad employment reference from her or if it's just my interviewing skills but you think after interviewing for 4 jobs that I would have something by now! I am also going to go see my PCP as I thing I might be in need of some antidepressants!

I need some input from fellow nurses as I am in a deep dark hole I can't seem to get out of. Background info: I returned to take a nursing job in my home town. I was working at a local hospital on their med/surg floor, (I was previously employed at a large hospital on a PCU teley cardiac/vascular floor). At my six month review the DON told me she had not tolerance for absences, I had contracted the H1N1 virus from one of my patients and had been very ill, I had missed around 6 shifts at work. I had followed policy and called in and informed the staff on what was going on. In my review she stated I had a great attitude at work, but was not meeting her expectations due to my absences. She also put me on 6 more months of probation. The absence issue was taken care of and things were going well, or so I thought! I had had a very busy day on the floor and right before report on of my patients pulled a joint drain. What a mess! Patient really needed this drain as they had put out 300 cc. I fix them up and rush into report. As I am giving report I state what had happened in regard to this patient and their output from the joint drain. I stated that I had not called the Doc yet, but would as soon as I was done with report, ( I didn't want to keep them waiting). Two of the nurses in report rip my head off about this issue, I handled it as best I could but I did get a little "testy" over their unprofessional behavior! The next AM I was put on call, which I readily accepted after this ordeal! Only to be called in by the DON and told that my position was just not going to work out. She told me that a couple of the nurses though I was overconfident and did not know what I was doing, that I had a bad attitude, was unteachable and told stories. She was reading this to me from an email she had received from one of the nurses whom was unprofessional in report the day before! I couldn't believe I was losing my job based on this email! This was right before Thanksgiving and I have been so depressed over the whole thing! I had never had problems with fellow co-workers before and never been written up or counseled, nothing! My nursing skills had never been questioned and I had never caused patient harm. How do I get over this and get on with my life? Am I taking it to personal? Help!