Reasons nurses get fired

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What are some reasons you've known nurses to be fired? I worked for a small company and was fired. I'm not going into why, but I did not cause any harm or do anything illegal. To me, those are the reasons nurses get fired.

11 hours ago, Hoosier_RN said:

One of my friends turned in a home health company for Medicare fraud. They tried to deny her unemployment by saying fraudulent documentation. She hired a good attorney and found where a manager had written fraudulent documentation (days of hand written records). Wasnt even close to her handwriting. My friend got a nice undisclosed amount from that company

A DON removed a page with a nurses note from a nurse who infrequently filled in. The note was about a problematic situation. She actually rewrote the entry and started the rewritten portion by stating in writing that she was rewriting the note, (but not why). At the time I was a relatively new nurse and was intimidated by this DON, like everyone else, but was awed that she would do such a thing.

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.
16 minutes ago, Apple-Core said:

Wait......what??????????????? This actually happened?

Yup, treating their own hang-overs.

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I don't think they need an order, consent?

They fired you for reporting a med error? Isn't that what admin keeps telling us they WANT us to do??? I thought that was the whole thing with trying ti minimize "systems errors"

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We knew they were lying. That's why so many nurse's don't report errors.

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Specializes in NICU.
On 5/5/2019 at 7:47 PM, Nursing On The Run said:

What I did do was self report I made a med error. It didn’t harm a patient, but that’s why I was fired. I also was given severance and signed something saying I would not divulge the fact that I DID sign something, or I would owe my severance back. It also says that I am free to sue but any money collected can’t go to me or to attorney’s fees.

This why I really do not believe management and their lies,self reporting should be non -punitive-all this of signing papers and non disclosures stinks of poo.Are you in the USA?Have you discussed this with a labor attorney,at least to get clearer facts?Are they reporting you to the board?

Good luck with it all.

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Labor lawyer!!!!!

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any reason

no reason

It's Thursday.

New manager is a ^(&)*%* who takes a dislike to you after you've had 15 good years at the same job.

Any and all or none.

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More people lose jobs for unprofessional reasons. Shame.

This is why there are job shootings.

Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
11 hours ago, Nursing On The Run said:

Thanks for all the replies and the stories, especially the one about getting fired for saying, "Go ahead, fire me!"

I feel a lot better and I'm glad I posted.

I don't need unemployment as I'm working, but I'm not so worried anymore about applying for other jobs. Onward and upward!

Yeah. I learned a valuable lesson from that debacle.

Knowing that others have been through similar situations and lived to tell the tale does wonders for us when we're in the throes of despair, eh NOTR?

I want to send thanks back to you for keeping we interested parties up on your status, NOTR. Too often we never hear back from, and wonder what becomes of, the broken-hearted.

Good luck to you!

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I’m in an at-will state. I was fired from my very first nursing job, which I obtained two weeks after I passed my boards for my LPN. Two weeks into the job I was put on phone triage and had an issue with a pt calling to speak with her cardio, who was in surgery. After repeatedly yelling at me, hanging up, calling back, yelling, and hanging up, I asked a coworker to take the call because the pt wasn’t listening to the fact that I could NOT page pt’s physician to leave the OR, come into the office, and see pt and pt refused to see any of our 9 other MDs or 7 mid levels. My coworker told me no because it wasn’t her turn on triage. I asked the head physician of the group who agreed that we can not call physicians out of the OR. I offered the pt another appt, same day, but pt refused, so I told pt to go to the ER where their MD was and their MD would be the one on-call to see them in the ER. Pt hung up, called our corporate office, and filed a complaint against me for refusing to help her. When I was fired, I was told I was “unable to perform the job requirements as expected”. I had no nursing supervisor because she was promoted to clinical director two days after I was hired, so I really had no one to ask questions of. I was in my 90-day probation period so no reason was really needed for my termination.

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