So let's say I quit...

dhigbee · May 21, 2008

I like A. Something like - These are my strong points, and this is what I can offer to your practice. The practice I joined didn't have a clear picture of how I could best be used to their advantage. (I also think there's nothing wrong with saying that you didn't receive the support you needed from your supervising doc).

So sorry your first experience as a NP has been so rough!

Dana

core0 · May 21, 2008

i'm going to give the medical director one more chance tomorrow to pull me out of the crappy office. and if i decide to quit... i am expected to give 30 days. sure. no problem. but even though i have a "script" in my head of what i would probably say to my potential employer, i wanted to see what you guys would suggest... because i have only been with this cardiology group since december, and i don't want it to look negative on my part for such a short-term position, but as most of you are aware from my previous "vent" post, my experience has (overall) not been a good one thus far. and i just fear continued negative association with my supervising physician and she's not getting any better. it's her fault that i have had a horrible experience... and i would like to take ownership for areas i could have handled differently, but i'm having a hard time finding many.
to my future employer (should i quit...), i don't want to look problematic... or seemingly petty... or whatever. i just wanted to see what ya'll would say in a situation like this.
suggestions???
a) i don't think the practice was ready for mid level providers?
b) my supervising md is a lazy, disrespectful, noncommunicating, a.d.d., immature, non-documenting, no good troublemaker?? jk

i would go with neither. i would put it in terms of your license. you have already demonstrated that the physician is putting your license in jeopardy in multiple ways. leave it at that. the one area where i would walk away without a moments notice is if someone puts my license in jeopardy through their actions or inactions. this makes it clean and simple. your telling them to put you in a place where your license is not in jeopardy or you will do it for them (by quitting). the issue here is, if you do this you have to be willing to follow through. if you threaten and don't do it, you are fatally weakened in any of your future dealings.

good luck

david carpenter, pa-c

Trauma Columnist · May 21, 2008

I'm a weanie - I just say that it wasn't a good fit and want something with...and then I name what points I want to focus on).

I'm sorry this isn't working out Daisy.

Editorial Team / Admin · May 21, 2008

I, too, am sorry it's not working out, Daisy.

But, IMO......I'd do like traumaRUs says and give reason that was not a good fit, period.

Good luck.

christvs, DNP, RN, NP · May 22, 2008

How did it go? I hope everything works out for you, no matter what happens.

DaisyRN, ACNP · May 23, 2008

well,

i'm still there... i talked with the director again and things are seeming to come to a head with the "problem child."it's just like a slow festering head... but its gonna happen, i think. the other partners are starting to see things differently... but... i have put my "feelers" out there by applying to a few jobs... and posting my cv here and there... so we'll see.

and i verified the by-laws and nowhere does it say she has to sign behind me in 24 hours. so, my privileges cannot be revoked... unless she doesn't sign behind me within 30 days. i guess i'll just have to go check the chart room for my charts every week... *moans and groans* and make sure she is signing them. if she's not, then the director said it'd be a good idea for me to approach the director of credentialing committee to voluntarily relinquish my privileges, instead of giving them a chance to revoke them. :) but he was going to remind the troublemaker about my charts and push her to sign them in a timely manner, as well as talk to her about other things... and neither me or the medical director want it to get to the point where i have to relinquish my privileges.

and thanks for the suggestions... i actually wasn't being serious with my own "suggestions." i was just trying to be comical... and ya'll know what? i got a call from a recruiter today about a position about 3 hours south of me, but she was kind of digging into the issues i have faced as a new np, and the job is for an np to work with a female "get what she wants," sort of difficult to work with unless you get to know her... cardiologist. *lmao* i kindly told her "no thank you!" :no: sound familiar???

SteveNNP, MSN, NP · May 23, 2008

I hope the head "pops" soon Daisy.... I'll tell ya, the more I read this particular forum, the more educated I'm becoming about choosing that first midlevel position....

yellow finch, BSN, RN · May 23, 2008

I hope this all heads in a positive direction for you. It would really stink to be stuck in a job that makes you miserable.

Best of luck to you!