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Hi all. I would be so appreciative of your help, advice, support, etc during this time. I am the poster who was sent home during orientation. see -- https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/advice-asked-to-993375.html Turns out I was suspended. Did not receive notice of such until my union rep called me telling me I was suspended and she will be with me in a meeting soon. Again, this is not my first rodeo. Almost 5 yrs as a nurse and this is my first suspension! Never have dealt with a union rep before, never had to meet with HR under these pretenses. Welp, guess there is a first time for everything. But what am I to expect? Should I bring anything with me? I have two 90 day probationary employee reviews from my two most recent jobs that speak very highly of me, should I bother bringing these in as a testimony to my character? How will it turn out? I am not that dense (I don't think) so my approach will be to not take the offensive and not be defensive.. so how do I play this?

hi all, just awoke and am appreciative of all these comments.. and i accept full blame obviously, i am not passing the buck here. they are a great institution, huge plans for more mergers, higher pay than what i was receiving, and i did want to work here, still do, depends on what happens obviously. and as an update, they have not called me back yet to tell me officially if i am relieved from orientation, or to come back. i did not e-mail them however, i may do that tomorrow. it is still very fresh, do not want to seem desperate, and give them a chance to really think. before i did leave the office, i did a whole thing where i asked if i could be my own advocate and voiced reasons why i felt i was still a good fit and how i can be of service to them. writing an e-mail would only beat a dead horse because i did state my plea in person. i admit my flaws, and admit i was wrong, but i did feel blindsided.. to clarify the situation regarding more patient load. the educator created a calendar for me and week by week i would take on one more patient until i reached 6. that specific day I was to have only 3 patients, instructions by my educator, but I told my preceptor that day "i feel good, i could take 4".. and I was not taking 4 independently, my preceptor was within an arms reach most of the day, so if anything crazy happened, I would go get him. But when she came by to do rounds, I upset her when I told her I took 4. She stated I do not follow directions well (which is true, is someone says take 3 and you take 4, that is not following directions.) And to expound on the notion I do not follow directions, a couple of days later, my whole orientation group was to attend a seminar within the hospital. We all did not attend. It was a busy day on the unit and we were asking amongst ourselves if someone was to come get us but it was too late. For the other people, it was strike 1. For me strike 2 in not listening. Thanks guys.

oooohhhh haha no i do not think that's me. i remember reading that thread i think, but that was some weeks before i actually got on the unit. but good call

LOL that's crazy, i am a male nurse. but what does that have to do with anything? me being a male nurse never amounted to much trouble

while i did not have much invested here, only a month in, i do feel terrible, bc i did leave under the premise i was going somewhere better. and it may have been better, but i may have not been the right fit. i just hate not knowing where i will be working by this fall, bc i had plans to apply to a masters program, now ill have to put those on hold for a while until i can get one of my per diems to take me in as FT with tuition reimbursement. a lesson in humility.

it was a new preceptor, never worked with her before. however, it was my responsibility to catch her up to speed on my progress and i failed to do so.. she did say at the start of the shift "i have a habit of taking the lead, you go take the lead and i'll play the back" or something along those lines. i took it to mean she was comfortable with me doing, if anything, just tasks, ie cleaning, meds, rounds, pain assessments, charting. i had a new hire event to attend at noon which i informed her of earlier. when i came back, they pulled me into their office.

my approach -- i will email them tomorrow morning, carefully wording my letter in an attempt to salvage the position. i will highlight strengths while taking responsibility for lapses. whatever they choose to do, i will accept (no other choice). ill go to my per diems from now on and hopefully one of them has a FT position in tow....eventually.

sorry im very green in this forum but ok i shall cease with the text speak.

4th week. different preceptor each day, two of the preceptors had nothing but good stuff to say, one said I was improving and she was impressed. managers had small concerns like my paper work being tardy, which I admit error, but I gradually had all my checklists done. their big thing is doing things with the preceptor, like med pass. most of the time preceptor would say call me if u need anything, so I imagined to have free reign.. or call them when I am doing this, which I would always do.. only time I jumped the gun was taking on a patient load of 4 when I was only to take 3, but again, of the 4, two were to d/c'd.. i really thought i was doing good, not great, but steadily improving.

if there are any updates, ill post em this week, if only to serve as a cautionary tale.

yea that's true. live and learn.. ill reach out to my per diems this week and try to have a ft by july

noted, and I will use that approach from the advice u offered, maybe email them Thursday am. springchick1 have u ever heard of someone in a similar situation being invited back? in your experience obv

better question, I have perused some of the similar threads, but it seems like there is a zero percent chance they do invite me to return, judging based off the other threads. ive come to expect it, but has there been anyone invited back, ala He is risen and given another chance?

all very good points presented. and I will def keep in mind if not there at the other jobs, seriously.. but guys what do u think I should email?

thanks for the well wishes guys.