Resignation

You should also have a handbook/new hire packet that explains resignation procedures for your facility. Some are two weeks but many nursing jobs are 30 days.

As a PP said, nursing is a small world, you never know in which future jobs someone will remember that you quit on short notice. It might be someone from HR or one of the nurses you are currently working with. If you do a search on this topic you will see this gets asked often by new grads. You never know if the company you are working for merges or is bought by another company and your records go with the new company. Don't burn bridges!

Okay, i justnfeel unsafe anymore. I cant keep up with the job

Okay, i justnfeel unsafe anymore. I cant keep up with the job

Tell your manager how you feel, see what their response is, maybe staffing can be adjusted to lighten the workload until you can manage safely.

OP, I'm sorry to hear that you're giving up. To be honest, I think this may be a very big mistake.

From your other posts, it seems that you are in a decent facility, with helpful, encouraging co-workers, and a decent orientation. That combination is hard to find, especially in LTC. What you are experiencing (from your posts) is nothing more than the struggle that every new nurse goes through. It is a learning process that simply cannot be avoided. In other words, the next place may not be any better and likely could be worse, and you will still have that struggle to learn time management skills.

I truly hope that you've thought this through and I REALLY hope that you do not live in an area that is over-saturated with nurses.

Any tips how I can do this properly? I only been working for 1 month and I cant find answers to stay in the facility. i know i have to give a 2 weeks notice but I want to get out immediately. Any tips how I can do this professionally? Thanks!

You know what you need to do, so do it. We all have to do things we don't "want" to do on any given day, but part of being a responsible adult is doing the right thing even though it's not convenient.

I don't want to pay my taxes. I sure didn't want to go to work the other day after spending the weekend with a relative in the hospital getting very little sleep. I know I won't feel like cooking dinner after a long day at work. For that matter, I don't want to even go grocery shopping this week.

You get the drift. Two weeks isn't insurmountable. Isn't a good reference worth that to you?

. You never know if the company you are working for merges or is bought by another company and your records go with the new company.

Truth!!!!!!

1- get another job first

never just leave. (i am speaking from experience ) if u decide to quit never mention it on your resume.

RNs usually require 30 days. I fulfilled that when I left my first job. I wanted my PTO cash out and my "eligible for rehire status" intact. Nursing is a VERY small world.

Is this a new thing? I've never given more than two weeks notice over the past 25 years, and I've never been ineligible for re-hire.

Nurse;8930665]Is this a new thing? I've never given more than two weeks notice over the past 25 years, and I've never been ineligible for re-hire.

Over the past 36 years, the only ones I've seen who were required to give 30 day notice were in management.

Thirty days notice for a floor nurse is absurd.

But I wouldn't put it past hospitals and facilities to try something like that.

This is true I'm going threw it now...i was hired and it was so bad i could not bear it. I gave one week notice and i'm now on a do not hire list. I only worked 2 weeks. Now I'm being turned away I've had about 20 interviews and getting different reasons why they won't hire me..i was told to go to the eeoc..