So hard for new nurse

[jenny102235]

I recently started my career as a nurse in a nursing home where RNs are only allowed to work as charge nurses. This role has been quite challenging for me, but I have been working extremely hard. My colleagues, patients, and DOC have all praised my dedication and effort. However, there is one doctor who has complained about me three times.

Whenever this doctor calls, if I don't immediately know the name of the medication he's referring to, he insists that another nurse take the call. In one instance, he asked me about a patient's eczema, and when I said I would check and get back to him, he had another nurse take over the call. After his three complaints, the DOC, who had always praised my work, suddenly began to criticize everything I did. They claimed they had received negative feedback from patients, colleagues, and doctors. But when I asked what specific feedback my colleagues and patients had given, the DOC couldn't provide any details. It was clear that the main issue stemmed from this one doctor.

The DOC stated that I was not meeting the job requirements, citing that I sometimes speak and act too quickly and highlighting the doctor's feedback. I truly feel that they are discriminating against IENs, new nurses, and those for whom English is a second language. I am seriously considering filing a complaint for discrimination.

[Jasmine301]

Jenny,

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They claimed they had received negative feedback from patients, colleagues, and doctors. But when I asked what specific feedback my colleagues and patients had given, the DOC couldn't provide any details. It was clear that the main issue stemmed from this one doctor.

The DOC stated that I was not meeting the job requirements, citing that I sometimes speak and act too quickly and highlighting the doctor's feedback. I truly feel that they are discriminating against IENs, new nurses, and those for whom English is a second language. I am seriously considering filing a complaint for discrimination.

I know how you feel. I started working in the ICU since March and it has been difficult just to find preceptors to train me, the other girls in my group have had more consistency with their preceptors and more encouraging/willing to train them. I've had about 14 different ones. I had a meeting last week to see how my orientation was going and I stated I was doing good, that I still needed to work on my time management but felt I was doing OK. Then the director/educator blindsided me and said exactly what you are saying happened to you. I asked for specific feedback and she would not give me any clear answers. The only thing she said to me was that I would be going to PACU overflow to work on my time management/organization/charting for 6 months, which is not what I signed up for. Med/Surg charting is completely different from ICU charting. I feel so disappointed. I took this job with a pay cut specifically to be supported as a new grad and be trained really well and feel I have made a huge mistake. I am in the process of writing an email to the director that stated this as a memorandom to get it in writing of what was said in the meeting and plans for me to come back to the ICU. I feel like they don't care and there is no support. This new grad program is a joke. One preceptor I had pulled me out of a pt room mumbling to do something which I had to clarify and she wouldn't repeat it, I asked the nurse outside what was going on and they said to mix a vasopressor medication. I said no, I've never been taught how to do this and I don't even know what's going on-she pulled me out of the room to do that while she took my place in the pt room where I was. I made the charge RN do it and I watched her. I told this to my NRP new grad program cohort and manager and they just said yep and nodded in agreement and said nothing else. No support, or anything. I feel like I was set up multiple times but I was able to critically think and not do what they said and was safe so now they are finding other ways to get rid of me.

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

Now that you have made the decision to resign and there are no concerns about retaliation from that doctor I'd seriously consider filing a formal complaint with the medical board. The days of doctors being allowed to treat nurses with such disrespect are long gone. Even if nothing comes from the complaint, it may make that doctor think twice before treating other nurses so poorly.