seasoned nurse needs advice

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so i just started a new job recently. i mean i worked five shifts there. it was not going well at all. i have about 10 years experience in sugical tele, oh step down. i took a job on a med tele floor. which really was like a nursing home icu. NOT what i wanted to do. the preceptor they assigned me to was just not right. idk...a personality disorder or something. she would tell me one thing to do and then another about the same thing. the paper work was out of hand. (who WRITES nursing dx. out anymore??). so to get to the point of this: at the end of my day yesterday i was asked to talk with the manager and someone else....the said they had 2 patient complaints on me in one week and someone else had said that i was using cuss words in the breakroom........ok i will admit to the cuss words. but, i thought i was alone VENTING to my husband and trying to fight back the tears....the thrid day i was there was awful and ms. nursey nurse was NO WHERE to be found to help me, then i caught her talking about me in front of everyone at the nurses station......so basically in this meeting i was asked to quit and i did.....i really dont give a **** about this job/unit it really was bad. they had been on their like 4th manager and had hired about 20 or so new personnel. RED FLAG. but the patient complaint thing i cannot get over. i had another job within the hour. so no biggie there. idk what to do. i really feel like she (preceptor) sabotaged me in some ways. i know that i am a good nurse. has this ever happened to anyone else???

Specializes in neuro, critical care, open heart..
O.K. You got mad and used the F... word in the breakroom and then again somewhere else, while you husband was there? Then you admit to swearing while in a work environment. You took a job you did not like and then took it out on your employer. I really want to ask you why your spouse was in your work place? I don't think it was about you mentor, it was about you being someplace you did not want to be.

Hey lynn0808,

Is softstorms the nurse that was precepting you? It sounds like they are trying to twist your words around too. Not one place did I see in your post that you dropped the F bomb, nor that your husband was at the work place. Good luck at your new job.

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nursing will drive one to swear

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i know right?? i totally thought the same thing about the cmt from softstorms. lol.

idk i am ok with quitting the job, like i dont think i had a choice in the matter anyways...........but for the nut that threw me under the bus.....

i am having a hard time with that one.....i just cannot get it out of my head. i think i will call the manager tomarrow and let her know a thing or two about her nursey nurse. if anything maybe it will help her not get that assistant manager position she interviewed for. lol lol....a little sabotage of my own! i am not even an evil person, but seriously. if that chick was in a position with power. OMG.

so i am off to a management position myself. in an ecf/acute rehab unit. should be interesting....not to mention it is 2 miles from my house. it will take me about 3 mins to get to work!!!!:p

i am really nervous about the position though....i hope i will like it...i didnt want to do bedside nursing/floor nursing anymore. just er or icu or something totally different!

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Specializes in NICU.
idk i am ok with quitting the job, like i dont think i had a choice in the matter anyways...........but for the nut that threw me under the bus..... i am having a hard time with that one.....i just cannot get it out of my head. i think i will call the manager tomarrow and let her know a thing or two about her nursey nurse. if anything maybe it will help her not get that assistant manager position she interviewed for. lol lol....a little sabotage of my own! i am not even an evil person, but seriously. if that chick was in a position with power. OMG.

While it might make you feel better in the short-term, the odds are high that it will come off as a vindictive move that will be quickly dismissed, and you always run the risk of it not being a wise career move. The nursing community is a small one. If you really feel as though she is a risk to patients or other staff, draft a professional letter with just the bare facts and send it to the NM and the NM's direct chain of supervisors.

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Specializes in orthopaedics.

sounds like you were in a crappy place. good luck with your new job.

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