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what are my chances of ever working in that hospital again?

I recently quit this past week my 1st ever tech job as a Nursing student b/c i felt it was unsafe. I had to juggle up to 15 patients, some mentally unstable and some being total/complete care with not much help from the nurses/techs and unsupportive management. I thought i'd be gaining valuable skills but all i did was clean patients for most of the day. This was something i was already taught in NS, so i dont need the additional practice. i felt like i was doing all the grunt work. The nurses were mainly charting and giving out meds, but they too seemed busy but their work is alot less physical. I was thinking of just working at my friends dads company as an administrative assistant until i graduate. It pays more and its a lot less work....It was a nice hospital, id like to go back, but only as a nurse.

The main reason i left this job recently was bc i saw no teamwork and it was dangerous to my physical/mental well-being. The nurses i assume huddled together 1 day and said that they weren't going to perform any aide duties. When i asked for their help, i always got this scripted answer.

I find this very strange. You said this was a nice hospital, someplace you'd like to work.....yet in a matter of days you found yourself being "banded against", a boycott in place against helping you?

Doesn't that seem strange to you? I'm thinking either there WAS no such group effort to work against you (and that kind of conspiratorial thinking will do you in at some point) or there WAS some type of group-think working against you (and you'd have to ask yourself just what the heck you DID that might have caused it).

I'm not saying it's ever appropriate for that to happen. I AM saying that if it DID happen....some more questions really need to be asked. You want us to believe that your MENTAL well-being was really at risk? So far...all you've said is you didn't like the job. Not mind-shattering, truly.

IMHO.....your worldview of this hospital and its staff seems skewed at best, paranoid at worst.

You did yourself your own worst turn by quitting the way you did, nothing the staff could have done during the week or so you were there was nearly as bad as your walking off the job without notice.

You said that you didn't want to "ruin your reputation" by working under such....awful?....conditions. Well. You succeeded in ruining your reputation as an employee: you proved yourself irresponsible in quitting the way you did, you proved yourself to NOT be a 'team player' in the manner you did it, and you think you HAVE a good reputation to tarnish at this point? Why?

You want us to believe that it was really safety concerns, etc that had you walking off the job, but I believe that your initial post on this thread was much closer to the truth, not the re-written version you just posted. It doesn't put you in a better light, at least not to those who believe your FIRST post was more like "how it was". :no:

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You're a lab assistant, are you even a nurse? Most nurses & techs/CNAs are generally short staffed. Nothing in her post was unsafe. She's a CNA & in nursing school, has to get use to the grunt work. She can't just pass it off to the CNAs. There are times CNAs may be too busy themselves or might not be there at all. If she doesn't like cleaning/bathing/toileting patients then she is in the wrong profession.

If she got paid, at all for that job, it will show up on a background check.

(psst: "he" :) )

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(psst: "he" :) )

Lol. Thank you.

By HIS actions I thought it was a female. :p

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Lol. Thank you.

By HIS actions I thought it was a female. :p

Nope, the testosterone camp owns this one ;)

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You're a lab assistant, are you even a nurse? Most nurses & techs/CNAs are generally short staffed. Nothing in his post was unsafe. He's a CNA & in nursing school, has to get use to the grunt work & time management (which he clearly doesn't know how to do). He can't just pass it off to the CNAs. There are times CNAs may be too busy themselves or might not be there at all. If he doesn't like cleaning/bathing/toileting patients then he is in the wrong profession.

If he got paid, at all for that job, it will show up on a background check.

Yes I am a CNA and a lab assistant. Thank you so much for taking time out of your life to look up my profile and make comments that was to someone else.

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Yes I am a CNA and a lab assistant. Thank you so much for taking time out of your life to look up my profile and make comments that was to someone else.

You're welcome. I try not to be ignorant & well informed before making a comment. If you're a CNA you should know that everyone is busy & what tasks are assigned to the CNA.

I've worked in a nursing home where the numbers of residents assigned to the CNA are ridiculous. I try to help the CNAs when I can but I am busy myself. I am not ignoring the CNAs.

There was nothing wrong with how many patients were assigned to him. Many hospitals/nursing homes/etc are short staffed while the census continues to rise. On top of that the OP doesn't like to do CNA work. If he doesn't like that, what is he doing becoming a nurse? He is going to have to clean up after patient's regardless of what job he gets. Or maybe he should reconsider nursing. He won't get a cushy desk position as a nurse until he has "paid his dues".

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You're welcome. I try not to be ignorant & well informed before making a comment. If you're a CNA you should know that everyone is busy & what tasks are assigned to the CNA.

I've worked in a nursing home where the numbers of residents assigned to the CNA are ridiculous. I try to help the CNAs when I can but I am busy myself. I am not ignoring the CNAs.

There was nothing wrong with how many patients were assigned to him. Many hospitals/nursing homes/etc are short staffed while the census continues to rise. On top of that the OP doesn't like to do CNA work. If he doesn't like that, what is he doing becoming a nurse? He is going to have to clean up after patient's regardless of what job he gets. Or maybe he should reconsider nursing. He won't get a cushy desk position as a nurse until he has "paid his dues".

Good for you hun. Your one of few. Can only go off my experience. Not what ifs... just how your going off your experience. Clearly me and the OP has had similar experiences.

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Good for you hun. Your one of few. Can only go off my experience. Not what ifs... just how your going off your experience. Clearly me and the OP has had similar experiences.

They aren't what ifs. This is how nursing is. We are constantly short staffed & always have a high census. How long did you work as a CNA? There is nothing wrong or dangerous with having 15 patients as a CNA.

Once again if he thinks that is dangerous, what will he do once he becomes a nurse & has a full patient load? When his CNA is busy or there isn't one & he has to do total patient care himself?

Being a CNA is a great time for him to practice time management amongst other skills important to nursing. For the OP to just quit this job during orientation then believe he can work there as a nurse is crazy. He must not want to be a nurse that badly then.

I'm not the only one who thinks what he did was wrong. You're the only one who thinks he's right.

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

Ugh.

You are missing out on valuable time management experience. Just because you're cleaning patients all day and "already learned how to do that" and the RNs only pass out meds and chart???? Seriously. You're also gravely short on real life experience, too. I've precepted with nurses who had multiple total care pts and no aides to help them out. That one day was a total nightmare. She was amazing. I would not get out of practice dealing with those total care patients if I were you.

:no:

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Exactly. I don't mind cleaning patients, i think ppl misunderstood what i wrote. Its the unsafe working conditions that drove me away as well as poor management that doesnt really care bc they don't deal or work with patients so they don't know what the floor staff goes through. Specifically the high acuity/pt. load. I felt like a chicken with its head cut off , trying to get tasks done on time otherwise id get in trouble for not finishing. I wasnt providing the type of care that i wanted to give, not to mention, i wasnt gaining any new skills that i could apply to being a future nursearrow-10x10.png, and the low wage, all combined, drove me to quit. Since i was orienting, i didnt feel a need to give any notice but i let them know that i wouldnt be coming back. I do agree that nurses also dont get paid as well as they should for the work they do but atleast its a liveable wage, i cant live off a cna salary that i was making.

How could we misunderstand what you wrote when you said you didn't want to do the grunt work. You said "if I can avoid it I'd rather not do it..." If you didn't even get through orientation, how did you even get you time management down? Not gaining any new skills? Really??? Honestly? Wow. Sounds like you needed to gain, I'll say it again TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS!

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What exactly did you think you were going to do as a CNA in a hospital. I work as a CNA in a hospital and while we don't go up to 15 patients in my department your tasks are exactly what I do. Cleaning, vitals, toileting, positioning, range of motion, etc... All those are CNA things to do. I work with great nurses who know I am going to nursing school so they let me observe things WHEN I HAVE TIME. This job is not clinical. The patient's care comes first, every time. If I can't go in and watch them do something, well bummer, but maybe next time I will have time to watch. You would be amazed at how much I have learned working as an aid in a hospital. I work it as a 2nd job on top of my first job and I love it more than my full time chemist job (I have a B.S. in another field already).

If you ever make it to be a nurse I hope you treat your patients and coworkers better than that. Leaving with out notice, what a crappy thing to do. That alone says so much about your character. You left them even more short staffed. No one deserved that, except maybe you.

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By HIS actions I thought it was a female. :p

Seriously. Why would that make you think it was a female. That's extremely sexist against your own gender. All respect lost.

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