Got fired.. Need support

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It was my first nursing acute care hospital critically Ill patients. I got fired yestarday.. It feels terrible a big hit to my already lack of confidence in nursing.. So after my 2 months orientation.. My second week on my own. A patient was admitted on a critical drip. Later 4 hrs after admission they couldn't find the drip.. That the patient needed to survive. Took them 3 hrs to make up their mind.. Finally they decided to discharge the patient.. At this time I was working on admission process, paper work etc.. I finished half of it.. Still I had to do the assessment in the computer. Since the patient is being discharged. I thought that I didn't have to do it.. It was already late.. I was in the patient room comforting the patient and his wife who was crying.. Then after the ambulance came.. I went home.. I didn't complete the rest of the admission process.. It was almost 10 pm. I worked since 7 am that day. Yesterday I get a phone call from assistant manager. I explained to her the situation.. Then half hr later the hr call me.. They said this was my last warning. Btw i never had any warning.. And she said I'm terminated.. I've been down.. Stressed. Thinking about it.. I wanted to put that position on my resume.. Btw this hospital lacks good management.. Bad review.. High ratios of patients.. Unsafe.. I never felt that I was providing good care.. I was working like a robot.. I was careful to not make med errors... Should I put this on my resume.. Working for 3 months? I don't know if hospitals would hire me.. I have 2 side jobs, school nursing and Homecare.. .. Please give me your input.. My confidence is shot.. I wish they had offered me to resign.. I really appreciate ur help and support.

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A patient was admitted on a critical drip. Later 4 hrs after admission they couldn't find the drip.. That the patient needed to survive. Took them 3 hrs to make up their mind.. Finally they decided to discharge the patient..

Who is/are "they"? Were you fired for not finishing the admission or something else?

In any case, I'm sorry for your bad experience.

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Specializes in Neuro, Telemetry.

Too late now, but even if someone is discharged 1 hour after admit, all admit assessments need to be completed because they were still admitted. This is to cover you and the facilities behind. If something happened to this guy that could have been found in an assessment or that would have been noted I. The admit paperwork, it makes it look like you admitted him and did nothing. It sucks and is a seemingly waste of time, but very important.

As for putting it on the resume, I would. You are a new grad and many hiring managers know a lot of new grads don't make it out of orientation for various reasons. When they question about it at interviews, just use the old "it wasn't a good fit" line and move on to how you have grown and desire a different kind of unit with better new grad support.

Dont nt beat yourself up. Not every unit is good and not ever nurse meshes well with each unit. You will find your niche.

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I am having a hard time understanding your post. What do you mean you could not find the drip? If the patient was critical how could they be discharged? How could you discharge a patient without completing the paper work?

Sorry you lost your job, but this did not seem like a good fit. I am assuming you were still in your probationary period, which means they can let you go without reason 'therefore I would not put this on your resume.

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Specializes in ICU.

I'm also confused on, they could find the critical drip 4 hours later. What does that mean?

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bravo to the rest of you, I didn't make it past the first few run on sentences. hope her documentation wasn't like that.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

He needed a "critical" drip and yet got discharged?? The whole thing makes no sense to me. Was he critical and then determined stable to be sent home? Your post really confuses the heck out of me, frankly.

I am sorry this happened to you. It sucks, but yes, EVERY patient MUST have an admission assessment by an RN. Standard of care. Hard lesson to learn for you. I am sorry.

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bravo to the rest of you, I didn't make it past the first few run on sentences. hope her documentation wasn't like that.

It is hard to clearly make out what the OP is saying. Really vague IMO. I want to make assumptions based on what is missing, but I know I would tear the OP apart if I did.

OP, this was your second week on your own. If you want to put this job on your resume, it will come back to haunt you if your next potential employer does enough digging. You already have two other jobs going for you. Make the best of that. From what I am getting here, I don't think you are capable of working in an environment with a faster pace.

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The patient was on critical piggyback drip for his failing heart. It wasn't found in the hospital. So they ( my hospital) had to transfer him back where he came from.. I worked in Ltach.

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I worked in LTACH. Where the patient was admitted. He had an iv drip for pulmonary hypertension.. It's very expensive. They couldn't find it in the hospital m so he was transfered back to the hospital where he came from.

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It is hard to clearly make out what the OP is saying. Really vague IMO. I want to make assumptions based on what is missing, but I know I would tear the OP apart if I did.

OP, this was your second week on your own. If you want to put this job on your resume, it will come back to haunt you if your next potential employer does enough digging. You already have two other jobs going for you. Make the best of that. From what I am getting here, I don't think you are capable of working in an environment with a faster pace.

I was still on probationary period. I worked in LTACH where he was transfered. The patient came with a critical iv drip from an acute care hospital. While being admitted. They couldn't find the drip to give him. So they decided after 3 hrs that he gets transfered to the hospital where he came from. I started the admission process. However I didn't complete it. Thinking that he is discharged.. But I was wrong. I hope this makes it clear.. Sorry I've been really down.. Especially when I wrote the post.. My apology..

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
I worked in LTACH. Where the patient was admitted. He had an iv drip for pulmonary hypertension.. It's very expensive. They couldn't find it in the hospital m so he was transfered back to the hospital where he came from.

Still don't understand......do you mean that the hospital did not have the drug in pharmacy? Why not send out for it? I'm so confused.

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