So I'm fired. Again.

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I must be the worst nurse in the world.

Now I need to figure out my next step. And it isn't nursing.

No specific reason. They think I "could" be unsafe.

Pffft.

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I can totally relate. It happened to me several times and they never gave me good reasons for it. I was usually the scapegoat for other problems in the facility.

Keep your chin up, pick yourself up, and know that you are a good nurse. Until you actually do something that is wrong, unsafe, etc...they can't say u are bad.

You will find that perfect job. The good thing about nursing is that there are so many fields, so many options...just take a little time, think about what you really want..and then go get it!

Best of luck!

LisaRNinArkansas

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Thanks, everyone.

Wow, this topic really resonates with everyone, it seems.

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Sue,

Their loss, keep your head down and keep attempting on doing a good job for your patients.

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.
Oh, and retail ain't low stress. I worked at JoAnnes and WalMart prior to going back to nursing school - my six figure systems job was outsourced, as was my husband's - and there's nothing as hard as being on your feet for eight hours with customers who treat you like, well, the help, and managers who can't bear to see you breathe. Kinda like nursing.

Well said. I have worked under similar conditions in which managers equally seemed to take delight in regulary watching others squirm. :angryfire

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Specializes in pediatric ICU, Hospice.

If you have hated what you are doing from day one, job one, maybe it shows through in your work? Perhaps the preceptors arent monsters, but genuinely evaluating you as they see it?

I think perhaps agency work where you can try many different places would be worth a shot. You just may find your niche'.

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First, Semele, I have already explained that the comment about hating what I was doing was typed through tears and not accurate. It was colored by heartbreak and disillusionment, in myself and the profession.

I don't think my preceptors were monsters. At all. Several were wonderful. My last, in particular, was a patient, wonderful teacher and was put in the rather terrible position of having to precept someone about whom the decision had already been made - when I ddin't appear on November's schedule, before I was paired with C., I had a pretty good idea that things were not good. And C. could not stop apologizing to me at the exit "interview." She was genuinely sorry to see me go, and at how things played out.

I had also asked my manager to pair me with certain specific individuals with whom I had a great working relationship - two of whom supported me, and defended me. She refused.

It sort of surprises me that some people seem to have difficulty believing that a couple of people with an axe to grind can really screw someone.

I know that I have faults, and I know - believe me, I know - what my weaknesses are as regards nursing. I was striving diligently to overcome them.

As to the first spot - if someone can't see that when it's me vs. the DON's DIL that nepotism trumps reality, well, I can't even fathom that lack of reality grounding.

I'm tired, Semele, and sad. The past couple of years have been financially disastrous, my confidence has been badly shaken, I'm very far from family and friends in a rural, inbred area, and have exhausted the only three employers in the area. I am lonely, living on Lexapro and Xanax, without which I weep and shake, and, while I understand the compulsion of some to inject a little reality into the discussion, that really isn't what matters right now. I KNOW that I contributed to stuff. I also know that I was treated very unfairly. But none of it really matters right now. I just want to stop feeling like whalepoop on the bottom of the ocean. And it hasn't been easy.

Anyway.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

**HUGS** to you Suesquatch. You deserve all that is good in life. I will pray that you get all the great stuff that you have coming to you. :balloons:

Oh, and I understand about the financial stuff. BOY do I understand...

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Saying I'm sorry seems so inappropriate. I don't know what I would do if I was fired. Please don't give up - we need nurses and good ones such as yourself. When I was first a nurse, I thought that I didn't know anything. But I did and so do you.

Don't make any rash decisions, think things through. Remember the love and support of your family.

Hugs and much love to you.

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Please do not EVER be so naive as to believe that it is always the nurse's fault. I was a 23 year oncology nurse, became an oncology NP, and took a position in an oncology office. The Dr. hired a partner, and her husband (business mgr.) decided there was not enough money for both of us, and I was fired after 18 months. BTW, I "saw it coming." Took another position with a practice that never had an NP before. 1 Dr. used me appropriately, Dr. #2 was "getting the hang" of utilizing me, and Dr. #3 was NEVER going to get it. Was "let go" after 4 months (saw it coming after 2 weeks - went to the office mgr. and asked if I should leave. She reassured me that it "would work out.") Am in a 3rd position as an NP - was EXTREMELY up front about how I should be utilized. One month into it - they are figuring it out (I am their first NP too.) Figure it can't be all me - I saw both terminations coming. Good luck to all job-hunters. BTW - try agency. I have been supplementing my income while job-hunting this was. Kind of a "try before you buy."

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limbo arent the nurses in canada unionized i know in ontario they are so how get the shaft like that hey your young word of advice from 50yo lpn find your niche stick to it and educate to higher levels this was my mistake I think iam too old now learn from those who have being around remember cya always cya ask us nurse in provate what that means .

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Specializes in pediatric ICU, Hospice.

Sweetie I didn't mean anything negative by my comment honest. You will find your niche and will help so many other nurses along the way because you will remember how it feels to be treated unfair. I still think agency or even travel nursing might be the way to go...just to get some experience. Travel jobs may be easier to get since you live where jobs are limited.

We need help in the PICU...care to come learn with us?

I am sorry if my comment upset you. I tend to be very brief when typing and it comes across as abrupt at times. I wish you all the best my friend. We all have to stick together.

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No, semele, it's okay. It's just hard - someone was determined to make me feel terrible about having been fired and wouldn';t let it go so I figured I'd give it one last explanation.

Thanks. I've been having a good time figuring out how to get everything I need for acceptance into Stonybrook's on-line BSN program. I can do it next semester, while waiting for the CPNE. I'm going to need A&P, social psych, and chem to be accepted. Which is fine, because I want more science classes.

:)

And thanks to everyone who has been so kind to me. Including you.

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