Quitting per diem without notice

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I need some non-biased advice. A month ago I left my full time job for another full- time job that I absolutely love. I stayed on perdiem at my previous job but haven't picked up any shifts until today...a month later. It was absolutely horrendous. I knew it was bad when I left, but it was worse than I remembered. So understaffed and just terrifying in terms of patient safety and management issues. Now that I have a better, safer, cleaner and more positive environment to work in, I realized how bad it really was. I left there today in tears with a splitting headache, frustrated and feeling emotionally and physically drained. On top of that my Dad was just hospitalized 2 days ago due to a possible heart attack. I'm supposed to work another shift with them tomorrow but I just know I won't be able to handle it and may snap. I originally have them 2 weeks notice and left on good terms. Would it completely reprehensible to just call out tomorrow and then this week tell my boss I need to fully resign my per diem position? I honestly don't know if I can suck it up for even one shift. Esp in light of the situation with my Dad's health.

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Specializes in ER.

Just tell them your Dad is in the hospital. Don't make a huge deal about it. Don't sign up for anymore shifts and let it die a quiet, natural death, no fanfare.

If I were you I wouldn't make any formal resignation. Just quietly fade away.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Dialysis, Plasmapheresis.

Call off and move on. Trust someone who just lost her Dad and wishes I had more opportunities to visit him the hospital. You sound like a good, loyal person with great character but just tell them it's a family emergency, it's all true.

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Call out and be with your dad. Do it as soon as possible to give them adequate time to find a replacement. As to giving notice, no need if you're per diem. I've worked per diem before and just didn't sign up for any more shifts. Nobody even noticed at that miserable hole of a hospital. I hope your dad will be ok. That's the important thing.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Give them two weeks' notice, but don't sign up for any more shifts. In many facilities not giving notice (even as per diem with no further shifts scheduled) is grounds for termination and being designated ineligible for rehire.

Hope your dad gets better!

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Thank you so much, and I'm very sorry for your loss.

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I did end up calling out. I just told them my dad was in the hospital and I needed to be with him. Honestly all day today I feel like a weight has been lifted off my chest. I'm still scheduled for 2 more shifts next weekend but I've made the decision to email my boss this week and thank her for everything, but effective immediately I am resigning from my per-diem position. A small part of me feels like I should suck it up for my last few shifts, but a bigger part of me knows I just can't do it. I may be wrong, but it feels right.

Thank you for your responses.

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Specializes in Hospice.
Give them two weeks' notice, but don't sign up for any more shifts. In many facilities not giving notice (even as per diem with no further shifts scheduled) is grounds for termination and being designated ineligible for rehire.

Hope your dad gets better!

From her description I don't think it really matters to her if she's eligible for rehire with them or not.

OP, it's a per diem job. Call off due to family emergency, don't sign up for any more shifts, and as someone else said, let it die a natural death.

Your dad needs you more than a suck hole job does. Take it from someone who missed more important family things over the years than you can shake a stick at. The job doesn't care about you.

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