Quitting without a notice

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I'm looking for some advice on this.

I currently have an interview coming up and if I feel like the place is the right fit for me and they offer me the job, I will take it in a heartbeat.

I haven't given my 2 week notice to my current employer yet. I'm waiting until I have something lined up before doing so. I don't think I can last another 2 weeks at my current place of employment. Staffing issues are a problem everywhere but I have been placed in unsafe situations where I am taking care of very high acuity patients that is putting my license in jeopardy. There a bunch of other reasons as well but that is the number one reason why I want to quit without notice.

So would you quit in my situation? Have you ever quit without a notice? I know they say to never burn your bridges but I highly doubt I will be working for this company ever again.

Thanks!

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
When you quit without a notice you give your new employer notice how you are apt to handle them if the time ever comes. It's not something you want that new manager to associate with your name and face.

It's like cheating on your spouse, marrying the new person, and then you wonder if your new spouse would ever cheat on you. Well, of course they very well may! They have a demonstrated history.

You wish to project professionalism. Give notice, don't give anybody the finger, and write a thank you note to your old boss for their support, even if they don't deserve it. If you ever have to go back to your old employer, by that time management may well have changed. All the new manager is going to see in your old personnel file is your old evaluations and how you left. Let them read a nice goodbye note and let them draw the conclusions about you that you'd like to project.

If they'll cheat once, they'll cheat again.

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While that may be the case, it is unprofessional to not give notice. Doing so also keeps you from using them as future source of referral. HR and management are more connected than ever, so you better hope you don't ever need them as a referral.

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

Update - I was fortunate enough to receive two job offers! One is full-time at a hospital ED and the other is PRN at a FSED. I'm very excited for these opportunities! I also just turned in my 2 week notice...feels so good!

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If I were hiring, I would wonder about the professionalism of someone who would quit without notice. How do they know you won't do the same thing to them at some point? Also, think of the co-workers who would be stuck if you didn't give notice. Sounds like staffing is bad enough already, why would you put them in a worse position?

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Specializes in Dialysis.
Update - I was fortunate enough to receive two job offers! One is full-time at a hospital ED and the other is PRN at a FSED. I'm very excited for these opportunities! I also just turned in my 2 week notice...feels so good!

Congrats to you! I hope the new job works out as well. I'm so glad that you took the high road and gave notice. Now you will never have to worry about that burnt bridge

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.
Congrats to you! I hope the new job works out as well. I'm so glad that you took the high road and gave notice. Now you will never have to worry about that burnt bridge

Thank you! I feel better about it. I don't know what I was thinking!

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Specializes in Postpartum, Med Surg, Home Health.

Congratulations on the job offers!

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Never a good idea to leave without notice.

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From somebody who HAS quit with no notice, TWICE, DON'T do it. Believe me, I know what it's like to not even feel like I can handle another day. I wish I would have sucked up the panick attacks that crippled me into quitting with no notice. Those 2 places were part of a larger company, where I was then ineligible to be hired at dozens of other local facilities. I got very very worried. And very very broke applying to dozens if places with no call back. FINALLY, I landed a job in a facility that's part of a very well known large nation wide corporation. I HAVE to make sure this ends well when I eventually move on. I never knew how small the nursing world can be.

I would look into a legal name change.............

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I would look into a legal name change.............

Won't help unless she can legally change her social security number too.

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I agree don't burn any bridges. I feel your pain as I was in a situation where I felt unsafe and I could barely drag myself to work the last two weeks after I gave notice.

I ended up having some lag time between the end date and the start date of my new job, due to background drug test etc....but I was so ready to leave my prior job that I was ok with this and just enjoyed the unplanned week off between jobs. I left on good terms and glad I did.

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Give the two weeks notice. Never say never. In my state most of the larger hospitals have merged in the last few years and at my workplace there are so many people who worked with each other and for different managers at other facilities.

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