Some of you may have seen my threads on here about my difficult job situation. Some of you have been able to confirm that the environment where I work is very bad... and that I am justified in leaving. My guilt and worry over leaving my coworkers behind keeps preventing me for doing so. Every time I am ready to give notice, something comes up.... like it's time for other nurse to go on her vacation and I don't want to mess it up, docs leaving for their vacations.. etc.
So my question is, those of you who work in very small practices... how much notice did you give? I would not have given this a second thought if it was the hospital. I left my hospital job and never looked back. My previous office job was a guilt-free out.... I went into preterm labor at 32 weeks and delivered a week later.
I am still agonizing over leaving my overworked coworkers, who are just as frustrated as I am. I have to do this. My mental health is suffering; work is all I think about on weekends. I have gained weight and my BP is now pre-hypertension with the occasional spike... once was 160/100.
Hopefully all worked out well, not only for you but also the co-workers you were worried about. You have to remember that they have choices to make as well--nobody holding a gun to their head forcing them to work there!
I was forced to give 4 months notice at one job. A previous coworker had gotten engaged and said she'd work until her wedding, but was missing her fiance (who lived an hour away in another state) so she quit early to move in with him and plan the wedding. When I got engaged several months later, another coworker told the doctor that I was leaving after I got married--the next year. When I found out about this, I told the manager that it was MY decision if and when I chose to leave and NOT the coworker's place to tell the doctor anything about me. The manager pulled me into her office a few days later and said the doc was worried that I'd leave early like the other nurse did and would appreciate as much notice as possible. That night I called my fiance and we moved our wedding up 8 months so my last day of work was the day my contract was up. I had to turn in a written notice in March of my plans to leave in July when I got married and moved to my husband's town. Talk about pressure! In two weeks I got married, moved, started a new job, and registered my son for a new school in a new district. Ugh.
DistrictNurse19
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Hopefully all worked out well, not only for you but also the co-workers you were worried about. You have to remember that they have choices to make as well--nobody holding a gun to their head forcing them to work there!