Terminated while on probation. Scared!

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Hi. Have anyone of you ever been terminated from a nursing job while on probation or monitoring? I’ve been on probation about a year and have a year left.  
I was terminated last week and it was not due to a medication or patient issue.  I did report my termination to my case manager with the BON and so far I haven’t heard anything yet.  My reason for termination was: excessive phone use while on duty and taking food from a resident when she offered it to me.  This one resident never eats her supper meal - she eats cereal and I went to her to encourage her to eat more and she only wanted her cereal and told me to eat her sandwich. I took the sandwich to the break room and later ate it.  Someone there saw me take it and told on me.  I wrote a statement stating how the resident gave it to me.  I was still fired.   I know it looks bad to the board but since it wasn’t drug or alcohol related or patent abuse or anything- I’m wondering if the BON will do anything in regards to my probation contract.  I interviewed for another job Friday and feel good about it.  They are OK with my probation terms.   I have another interview tomorrow.    I’m just worried.

On 12/9/2020 at 7:11 AM, StarlaBanks said:

I have been. You will be able to move past this!! Especially if you haven’t violated your contract. 

So if u are terminated , it doesn’t affect your probation? 

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