This is the first time in my life I have had a Monday-Friday, 9-5 job and I quit! Since I started, I have been yelled at by one of the other nurses on an almost daily basis for things that were certainly not worth yelling at anyone for...once she came into my office and screamed at me because I wasn't getting patients back fast enough...she failed to notice that all of my providers rooms were full and I had no where to put any more patients. She also yelled at me for not sending lab and x-rays to a specialist for a patient even though the appointment was scheduled a month before I started working there. I was yelled at for telling a patient to call 911 when he called me complaining of crushing chest pain and shortness of breath...he coded about five minutes after he arrived in ER...I'm glad I didn't tell him to come to the clinic! The office manager, the two nurses I work with the most, and one of the PAs are "best friends" and there have been five or six times they have come in in the morning and called me into the office and said..."We were talking last night" and they would list things I do wrong...if I ever had a concern or complaint about what one of them did, I was told that I needed to pay more attnetion to what I was doing and less to what they were doing. I was also "written up" for not doing a bunch of paperwork one day...the office manger failed to notice that I was off on that day and when I pointed it out I was told that I needed to make sure things got taken care of anyway... The other two nurses have a bad habit of taking hour and a half lunches and coming in late. I was told (by the office manager) that I was not to eat anyone the food from drug reps or have a snack while I was on the clock...when I pointed out that one of the other nurses does it all the time, I was told that she is a single mother and sometimes doesn't have time to eat at home and that she has trouble making ends meet so sometimes that was the only time she eats during the day. The other nurses are also allowed to leave during the day for things like dentist appointments...I was told to schedule things on my day off or over my lunch hour.
So...I found another job and gave my two weeks notice. When I did my exit interview, the doctor who owns the clinic told me he knew that people were being unusually hard on me and treated me pretty poorly. He also said that he knew that having the nurses, the office manager, and the PA being so tight knit caused a lot of problems and that the nurse before me resigned because of it. He said that there is a huge amount of favoritism for the other two nurses but that they are just so good at what they do that he often looks the other way...and he knows the office manager was often just "downright mean" to me, but that revenue has improved since she started, money for supplies has gone down a lot, and he just can't affor to lose her. He also said that once I got "in the groove" that I was a pretty model employee and he really appreciated that I was always the first one there in the morning and that I never left until everyone was either done with everything or was at a point that whatever they had left was something that they could only do themselves.
I start at the new job next week...I am going to make $3 more an hour and will only be working three days a week. I'm still pretty angry about the job at the clinic...I have honestly never been treated like that at any other job...I'm pretty disappointed that the doctor ignores so many of the problems there. The nurse who is replacing me is the office manger's roommate...
The other two nurses have a bad habit of taking hour and a half lunches and coming in late. I was told (by the office manager) that I was not to eat anyone the food from drug reps or have a snack while I was on the clock...when I pointed out that one of the other nurses does it all the time, I was told that she is a single mother and sometimes doesn't have time to eat at home and that she has trouble making ends meet so sometimes that was the only time she eats during the day. The other nurses are also allowed to leave during the day for things like dentist appointments...I was told to schedule things on my day off or over my lunch hour.