Shortest time you held a nursing job?

FlightRN2B · Aug 24, 2003

6 months which should have been 6o seconds, only I'm not a quiter and didnt have the vision to see that I was swimming in shark infested waters. I was a new grad working in a specialty unit. Have you heard the term that nurses eat their young......... Well hell, they didnt even cook me first, they ate me raw like sushi........ Needless to say I glad Im not there anymore....

CseMgr1, ASN, RN · Aug 24, 2003

Originally posted by FlightRN2B
Have you heard the term that nurses eat their young......... Well hell, they didnt even cook me first, they ate me raw like sushi........ Needless to say I glad Im not there anymore....

:rotfl:

P_RN, ADN, RN · Aug 25, 2003

Between 30 and 34 minutes. I was hired for 3-11 on the peds unit....never had worked in a hospital and all my peds experience was in school and then in Head Start. Got there and the nurse recruiter tells me I am the 3-11 asst nurse manager...since I had all the experience and no one else on 3-11 had ANY.......can you say Bye-Bye....reeeeeealy fast. Actually 30 minutes was too long to have stayed but I felt I "owed" them an explanation!!

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · Aug 25, 2003

Wow, I think P_RN holds the record!

It was two shifts for me. It was in LTC. My first night, I was supposed to be working w/ 3 CNAs, but only one showed up. It was hellish. I stayed over in the am to speak to the DON and tell her that that was not acceptable. She assurred me I would have enough staff the next noc.

The next noc- she sent her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend to be the CNAs. I do not know if these two actually had any training or what.

I found the two in a resident's room, sitting together in a resident's lounge chair, watching the resident's TV and eating Doritos while they were supposed to be doing rounds. I reprimanded them, but kept finding them lounging around the facility. When I questioned them, they had assurred me that their work was done. Of course, many CNAs in LTC know that the nurse is far too overwhelmed to be able to check up on them sufficiently. That noc, I entered a resident's room to do his trach care. His teeth, face and clothes were filthy. It was obvious that no one had done anything with him for days. There were no proper trach care supplies to be found anywhere. The nurse orienting me told me that those items were not stocked.

On top of that, the nurse that was there to orient me had only worked there for two months herself. She had no idea where anything was, how to do the paper-work or what the policies were. Not her fault- she had not gotten any orientation at all. I was to get 16 WHOLE HOURS of orientation, woo hoo!

I quit that morning, without notice. I just said "I won't be back."

I had even expressed my concerns at the interview about the current state of terrible working conditions at LTC and the DON had assurred me that *HER* facility was not like that.

Typical nurse manager/DON, A great big amoral liar- stiffing the residents and the nurses to make $$$ for the big corporate mucky-mucks.

Disablednurse · Aug 25, 2003

I worked in a hospital after I graduated from RN school for 3½ years. The first six months were ok, not good, ok. The last three years were pure hell, but I do not like change and stayed and let it cause severe health problems which took eight months to repair. I have never been treated so terrible in all my life as I was while working there. I was so glad that I left.

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · Aug 25, 2003

Originally posted by mattsmom81
One job I could only give a 1 week notice (also due to childcare issues) Because of this and the fact I was HONEST when I left (it was a hellhole) they Group One'd me for less than adequate notice...left a black mark on my record. Facilities can sure get vindictive when we tell them what we think of them. (which is why so many nurses choose to leave quietly vs enduring their wrath, and one reason these places stay operating)

Even bankruptcy goes away in 7 yrs but Group One follows you around forever. Group One background checks are used by healthcare HR folks to eliminate one from selection for interviews and hiring.

In Group One areas it is sooooo important to do your job research before landing somewhere bad and having to bail. Too many 'black marks' and a nurse finds herself blackballed. This is hard to prove, and one has little recourse unless federal law has been violated ie discrimination (I have talked to an attorney) but it has been going on for quite awhile now in my area.

Just another way our dysfunctional system tried to control nurses.

Please explain the Group One thing. I don't understand. If I am on this mysterious list, can I find out?

As stated in my previous post, I left one hell-hole after two shifts. I left another after 6 weeks. But, I do not list them in my work experience or on my resume.

Is this Group One thing a list that any employer can put you on on a whim or what?

Louie18 · Aug 27, 2003

10 minutes in an ER with dust on its AMBU bag, made one walk around and out the door.

santhony44, MSN, RN, NP · Aug 27, 2003

Three months. I was laid off during a massive RIF. They called me back a week later! I already had another job; they actually did me a big favor. I also accepted one job but then turned around and turned it down, before I actually started. I just had a gut feeling it was not right for me, and I thought it would be unfair to the employer to start and then leave.

happystudent, RN · Aug 27, 2003

Originally posted by Louie18
10 minutes in an ER with dust on its AMBU bag, made one walk around and out the door.

:rotfl:

Quickbeam, BSN, RN · Aug 27, 2003

A couple weeks...think it was 2. I took a job that was close to my home at a large (700 bed) private facility for the developmentally delayed. The orientation was really odd...everyone hired (janitor, cook, maintenance crew, RN) all had the same orientation. It wasn't bad until they said I would have to be "taught how to make a bed" by a nursing assistant. They used this as a "we are all in this together" type of teamwork thing. I explain I had been professionally making beds for a lot of years and felt this was a waste of time. They were really put out and I was told to see the chaplain about my hardness of heart. Anyhoo, that was also when they told me about the 150 person med pass I'd have to do twice a shift. Eat my dust! I was outta there.

mattsmom81 · Aug 27, 2003

Originally posted by Hellllllo Nurse
Please explain the Group One thing. I don't understand. If I am on this mysterious list, can I find out?

As stated in my previous post, I left one hell-hole after two shifts. I left another after 6 weeks. But, I do not list them in my work experience or on my resume.

Is this Group One thing a list that any employer can put you on on a whim or what?

Its a consumer credit reporting agency. We sign on job applications that 'any offer will be contingent on a background check', etc. Not all areas use this but mine does. It is a database of info on us, our employment, our names, court records, what have you.

nowplayingEDRN · Aug 31, 2003

I made in 1 month and 2 weeks....the 2 weeks was for the notice that I gave an intermediate care facility that was home to 33 dually diagnosed clients....I was hired per diem and was going to be filling in full time for one of their FT night nurses whom was going out for back surgery. I felt I owed them the 2 weeks. But I knew it was time to say Hasta when they started telling me that I might have to take clients down if they got out of hand. I had ugly visions go through my head that and I decided after 2 1/2 weeks that I just was not cut out to be a house mother to these people with special needs.....so I left, which was upsetting to them as I had picked up the routine and client's names quickly and had a way with the difficult patients and got them to comply with things that needed to be done......Oh well.......I figured I gave it the old college try.....:)

Now this group one thing....I have a feeling I am on their list but hey......I did what I had to do....and life goes on.....