Hello to all. I'm still a bit bruised and still up, not able to sleep after what just took place two days ago. I have been working as MDS coordinator for a swing bed LTAC facility and 15 minutes after state left out the door and the announcement was made that we met 100% compliance and all was good, I was called into admin office and termed effective immediately. I am absolutely blindsided by this. When I was hired in, the facility was in such a clinical and charting situational mess. All was cleared up and care plans and MDS were now right and proper. The calculated timing of having me there full time and especially having me there during state survey to be in compliance and then literally walking me to the time clock within minutes after state left, handing over my badge and keys was a deplorable act beyond the beyonds in their handling of me. I couldn't even save the section C I was on and shut the computer down. They didn't even allow me to show them the care plan I had printed off sitting there, that they stated I had not even done or completed on due date (which they stated is the reason for immediate dismisal) It was sitting right there in the office. Due date post admit on the care plan was the very day I was terminated. I'm speachless and really distraught over this. Now I realize why they hired me full time and had it in mind the whole time that when state inspec passed and they were through, that they had no intention of keeping me past that point. I was completely duped.
Has anyone ever been hired in, payed an excellent pay rate, allowed to sign up for all your benefits etc and then escorted out to parking lot after inspection? I am going to say that this is probably a very rare occurance with MDS coordinators. Were these administrative dept heads not even looking at the calendar and ARD dates to see that the care plan in question was actually done and sitting on my "to sign" shelf? Brutal, just cut throat brutal. Their care plans and MDS were a disaster before I came in, and now that all areas were fixed they terminated me. I honestly don't know what to do now. How do I go for another position when I don't trust that I can even state them as my last employer/reference as dirty as they do business?
Don't hold your breath on the unemployment claim. The employer holds all the cards, including all the lies they will tell. The EDD employees actually discuss with the worker how the employers lie through their teeth. You will probably have a new job before you get a final answer from them.
Yeperzz. Time only goes in one direction, and forward is the direction I must go. This debacle is happening to nurses more and more these days. Nursing jobs seem to be temporary and are not posted or presented as temporary but they know how to time the new hire's time to fit their asap needs. New hires seem to be doomed well before they can officially gain the one yr mark. I think they see the new employee as someone who is eager and willing to do the very best, especially within a probationary period but they also view the new hire as someone who is gaining valuable experience and knowledge that they interprete to almost like an intelligence spy and then will take the valued knowledge to bigger and better jobs for themselves. This is my theory based on objective and subjective observation in the workplace as it has happened to many good nursing colleagues and former classmates. The long term staffers seem to act threatened by the new hire also, and hence do not treat the new hire well and systematically make them miserable especially on shifts where there is no DON or authoritarian around. New hires can by no supreme effort or fault of their own make the ones who slack around on their work, take shortcuts, document after the fact, and resent the nurse that doesn't roll that way making them look bad. Reflecting back, right before I was fired, I wasn't getting the highly needed PPS minutes on time from the PT rehab dept and that little rehab manager complained on me to the corporate wig about me badgering her for the minutes, and I'm sure that factored into the mix also. Brings me back to my sociology 101 course. What a classic example of pg 97.
I hope so, it does me so much good and quite therapeutic to have nurses in my corner. True solidarity and a prime example of how and why Allnurses is so fantastic.
I feel they did do you a great service in getting rid of you, who would want to work in a place with such poor ethics in fairness. Dont let them break your heart, they are not worth it.
Yes lisamunozRN it did feel like a heartbreak as bits and pieces continue to show up in my thoughts, and for the things I wasn't allowed to show them the proof of what I did properly and on time. Kind of like saying you never applied a nicotine patch on the date in question and clearly your name and date are on the patient and they never looked at the patient. Geez.
Yes lisamunozRN it did feel like a heartbreak as bits and pieces continue to show up in my thoughts, and for the things I wasn't allowed to show them the proof of what I did properly and on time. Kind of like saying you never applied a nicotine patch on the date in question and clearly your name and date are on the patient and they never looked at the patient. Geez.
Wow newtress, sorry this happened to you. The whole thing sounds sickening. I can't understand why facilities like this don't realise that constant staff changes, especially in positions like yours, can only impact adversely on the facility, staff and resident morale, and the quality of care being provided. Stability is so important, do they really not get that??
Specializes in Gerontology, Med surg, Home Health.
Sorry to hear what happened to you. But the pregnant administrator? She should call an attorney. You can't be fired because you're pregnant. Jeez.....what a rotten place.
Sorry to hear what happened to you. But the pregnant administrator? She should call an attorney. You can't be fired because you're pregnant. Jeez.....what a rotten place.
actually she was fired for not being able to work full time....
Specializes in Gerontology, Med surg, Home Health.
She wasn't able to work full time because she was pregnant. If that were me, I'd be calling a good lawyer. ( if I were pregnant, I'd be jumping off the Bourne Bridge but that's another story!)
if I were pregnant, I'd be jumping off the Bourne Bridge but that's another story!)
caliotter3
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Don't hold your breath on the unemployment claim. The employer holds all the cards, including all the lies they will tell. The EDD employees actually discuss with the worker how the employers lie through their teeth. You will probably have a new job before you get a final answer from them.