Jen411

Hospital interview tomorrow... If this Director of nursing cancels again its probably ment to be..Keeping my fingers crossed!! I did all that paper work for like an hour for that nurse agency and the man who runs it said he would call me if something came available.. well he never called... But anyway this nursing agency sends you from what I gathered to ltc facilitys as staff relief. Friday I start orientation again at a ltc facility. I was called by 2 other hospitals as well 40-45 minutes away.. not sure about those.. All I know is I'm sick of getting 2 steps and doing orientations!!!!!!!!!! Wow I would be peed-off too!!! Someone obviously isnt doing their jobs at that hospital.. Lack of communication seems to be the problem.. keep me updated on how it goes.. wish you luck!

Not sure if you bought scrubs yet.. But walmart's are normally affordable. I will tell you tho I'm not sure if anyone else had this problem but their scrub pants are OVERSIZED.. I suggest you try the pants on in the store if you can. I wear a Medium, the Medium fit like a large! I had to by a small.. and let me tell you my scrub pants are the only pants I have in small lol

Congrats on your new job! From going from LTC to the hospital was a culture shock. It was weird seeing LPNs at the hospital I was at anyway, being my peer and not my supervisor. Hospital was busy, But I believe alot easier then LTC..IMO anyway

Wow, that lady is very unprofessional and obviously doesnt know her information.. I would be highly p'd-o as well. Hopefully once you start that it would be as dysfunctional as the orientation. Just remember incase that lady tries saying you didnt show up to one of the orientation days keep all paper work so you can show how messed up it was from the getgo Wish you good luck!

For mine it was 2 days and wore told to wear "business casual" attire... 1st day policy and procedure,rules,etc etc.. 2nd day videos,schedule,some clinical stuff in "staff development" office.. Taking each other's vitals manually,being taught some of the computer charting,quizzes, etc.. Id badges and thats about it.. Good Luck!

Hi I haven't checked the boards for a few days, so Im just seeing your message. I didnt go back to the hospital. I got called last monday for an interview at another local hospital but on their long term care unit.. Well today she left me a message on my voicemail saying that she had to cancel my interview because she was sick and didnt think she could make it through the day?? and that she will call me next week. ((rolls eyes)) 3 weeks Ill have to wait for an interview, and she wasnt even sure when I spoke to her last monday if she even had a position available.(Since someone just quit and blah blah blah..) She called me? and asked if I wanted to come in for an interview or if I wanted to wait until she knew she had an opening? I'm thinking well an "interview" then she will keep me in mind incase she has something and I can make an impression.. Otherwise I'm just going to keep looking.. Unfortunately there's not many more places for me to apply.. So I went to a nurse staffing agency today.. I will have to travel 40 minutes away from home but until I get something set in stone, fulltime-wise I guess I have no other choice. I will be getting paid $14-15 dollars an hour and paid weekly which is a plus.. Hopefully something good will come my way..and soon before I loss my mind. I wish you luck on monday! Its a holiday will you get time in a half?? Not getting orientation prior to working personally gives me bad vibes from the get go.. Not knowing policy and procedures prior to working , thats scary. Let me know how it goes!! The first day will be alot to take in im sure, it was for me.. What I should have brought in the first day, that I brought in the second day was a small notepad... That may help you remember everything that is thrown at you the first day.. Good LUCK!!!

I did have the "trainer" all 3 days, when she wasn't pawning me off. I mean they were decent to me, but the last day I worked when my "trainer" threw me under the bus and claimed I didn't finished the charts on 2 patients when they were her patients that really p1ssed me off! and made me feel like a slacker which I am not. Working with her I felt like I was slacking off she talked more then she worked and I had no other choice but follow her around. I did mention to the lpn who also worked with us that I had no clue I was to chart on these people(since I worked with this lpn all morning) and she just blew me off. I really did try to correct the problem and I did what I was told and charted on these patients. The manager called me back a few hours ago and basically said she couldn't switch shifts for me. She would like if I would come back and train with someone else. But still with my old "trainer". Thats fine and dandy but I am so nervous even paranoid to go back there. The environment there is not the greatest with the lpns loosing their jobs.. I just don't know what to do. I do have an interview next Tuesday somewhere else.

I don't blame you, These facility's preach about hostile working environments and verbal abuse and so forth... But they never practice what they preach. Pick and choose favorites is common unfortunately everywhere you go. There's a saying my old workplace coworkers would say "it's not who you know, it's who you ****" I bleeped the last word but I'm sure you get the hint if I knew I was not guilty of such, I would have refused to sign the write-up, and ask them to provide proof I was the one who caused the actually harm. Since you resigned you were probably off anyway. Noone deserves that type of treatment. You can only be a doormat for so long.

My thoughts exactly. I explained this to her as well and she stated she "didnt think there would be any further problems". Easy to say that when your not actually on the floor working side by side with the girls. I noticed the other shifts dont have much communication with each other. So that's why I figured it would be safe if I went another shift.I hope they would give me a chance on another shift, but then again she said she wasnt sure if they were still available. The environment wouldn't be the same on dayshift with the same people. After me making the report. I know deep down it wouldnt. Otherwise I filled out applications else where today so maybe its back to square 1.

Well Update on the situation... So I called and basically resigned thursday night, Not very professional to leave a message on the nurse managers voicemail. Ofcourse she didnt get it until today! She called me this morning and I explained what happened and how I felt reguarding falsification of records,the princess comment,etc. She said the girl I trained with said she didn't feel as tho there were any problems, and she apologized if I felt offended and that she would even do my rotation schedule of 3am to 11am and she said I was doing good, and would like me to come back. At this point I kinda feel awkward going back to the same shift,Im sure my trainer (as she talks to everyone!) told everyone I wasnt coming in because she was calling me "princess", and I made a complaint against her. I know at my previous job when you heard people making complaints against another coworker you looked at them like a snitch and that coworker would be treated "differently". I told the unit manager I would prefer to go to another shift. Unfortunely that may not be an option for me. Shes suppose to call me back later today to let me know if thats available or not. I dont know what I should do? Do I returned to dayshift, knowing everyone knows I didn't show up for two days due to the way I felt I was being treated? Or do i cut my ties with this hospital?? I feel so torn! I feel as tho maybe I did jump to conclusions and feel I let myself down and didnt give the hospital a chance. My biggest flaw is always worrying what people think of me.. Ugh I mean thankfully they did call me back today to discuss what happened but 2 no call no shows? Thats immediate termination. Anyone ever be in this kind of predicament? Advice?

Well said!

I know the feeling at the ltc facility I worked the same would happen.. I wish they had an on call this, give them beepers if your beeped get your butt to work

Congrats on your new promotion!

I worked until I was about 37/38 weeks on a hard short staffed dementia unit. If you work in one of these units to sun-downers your belly is target practice. Their are some residents that want to touch your belly and are always saying "Be careful your pregnant" and then there are the others who hit and aim for the belly. Be careful! I had to still lift and pull, sometimes you will find that you have good coworkers who will go over and beyond because you are pregnant. Because they remember how it was:) and then there are other aides who dont. Long hours on my feet and always having to pee were bothersome, but otherwise I was fine. Now getting into the car to drive to work was a problem my belly pushed on the steering wheel. I'm short so I have to have the seat up when I drive,hence the belly squashed:eek: As for morning sickness this was my second pregnancy and thankfully I was blessed with no morning sickness or anything. But my sense to smell increased and smells like burping colostomy bags or the smell of resource(aka ensure) made me turn green. I found if I put scented lipgloss or lotions that smelled like food(chocolate,cake,etc) under my nose it helped me through the "rough times" lol

It was my 3rd day of actually working on the floor. This women I worked with were in their 40's/late 40's maybe? It wasnt like I was working with 20 some year olds. I'm sure its not like this everywhere. But in the current situation at the hospital this is probably why I was treated the way I was. On the rotation deal. I was unaware of any rotation when I was hired. The Director of the nursing dept ask what shift I wanted to work.She gave me an option of days,evenings,nights. I choose dayshift. Normally places I have worked in the pass LTC there is no rotation, unless you signed up for Overtime or whatever. So during orientation a few of the other girls I was with mentioned they were on rotation? I was confused because this was never mentioned to me, I was in the dark. I mean what happened if I was unable to work, would I get in trouble? I'm sure you will do fine. I have 14 yrs of cna experience and felt like a complete idiot. Congrats on graduating! I wish you good luck with the new job