ElleTea

Right, I appreciate all the responses, and do feel like I share some of the blame. I was definitely not a super star and felt like I needed some time to get everything on par. I don't feel like the work was hard, but getting it all done efficiently was challenging because there was so much to do and so many variables. I did feel like I was making improvements, but I don't think that was ever recognized. In the end it's probably for the best if I start somewhere that the preceptor can walk me through my challenging areas and help me come up with a plan for improvement instead of silently watching me make mistakes. I felt like my senior preceptor was like this, she was tough, but she kept me on task and I learned a lot.

Anyone interviewing on the 18th? I got a letter asking me to show up at 9 am when they will be doing interviews. But the 3 year commitment has me a little freaked out. Does anyone know if you can transfer to another CHW during that time or are you bound to St. Rose/Dominican?

Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone can give me some advice about my situation. It seems to be a common thread here. I graduated with a BSN in December, and was able to get a position that started in late May. After 1 week in orientation and 7 weeks with a preceptor, I was talked to once by the nurse educator, who basically asked my preceptor for feedback and asked me to work on my skills (basically time management, some medication calculation stuff), a week later the nurse manager sat down with us and told me they were going to give me one more week working with lower acuity before they moved me up to higher acuity patients. No "or else" warning. Whatever. The next week I worked one more day. A bunch of things popped up that I had never done before, in the middle of my scheduled assessments that totally messed me up time management wise. The next day, I felt like I was having the perfect shift. Everything was going right, but it was too late. The manager showed up and asked me to get my stuff and "escorted" me to HR to have a "meeting". At this point the director and manager (mind you neither had ever observed me work) explained that my inability to work independently and numerous "patient safety issues" made me completely wrong for this department (nicu). By the way the safety issues they gave were not doing the 5 rights of medication (never mentioned to me, but by nature the 5 rights were done with 1. checking the mar/dr orders, 2. the scanner, 3. the medication book that i used for every med including iron drops. etc, and recalculating the dose religiously. Also they said I didn't check the parameters on the monitors (that were constantly set wrong by the other nurses). oh and it took me too long to get a calculator. My probation was 90 days and this happened about 56 days into that probation. So you can see I'm a little bit bitter about the situation, but I get it. Being on probation puts you at the complete mercy of the nursing administration that can fire you because you fart wrong. I think this is complete BS considering what someone has to give up to take a new job, and the amount of info I had to absorb as a new grad (charting system, assessments, placing order, supplies, policies, etc) but thats the way probation works, and I think in the end they really didn't want to pay for training a new grad. Anyway my question is regarding background checks. I'm trying to move on, applying everywhere and omitting these 8 weeks from my work history. But now I am rethinking this. Will this show up in a background check and should I disclose this on my applications? Should I wait until a job offer and just disclose it on the background check paperwork? It seems so wrong considering they really need no reason to terminate you, instead of having some kind of union representation, paperwork trail etc. Any feedback would be appreciated.