To add or not to add to resume?

[SLF82]

I am a CNA and have worked with a home health agency, an adult day center, assisted living facility. After not working for a month or so ( I took a nursing pre-req, but ended up withdrawing), I went back to home healthcare..though after one day, I knew it wasn't for me and not what I was told I would be doing. I was not doing CNA work, but rather light housekeeping, meal prep, etc.

My question is this: I worked for this past agency just one week. Do I include this on my resume? I did not leave on good terms and don't intend to use them as a reference. And how should I explain such a short stint? I intend on being honest, just not sure what to say/ how to say it and be polite and professional.

[BSN16]

If it was just a week, i wouldn't put it. It's not like you have a long period of time that you were unemployed, since it was only a week. And it might bring up too many questions or the future-employer like "why did you leave so soon? What if you repeat this behavior here? etc. So ya, just leave it out

[oldpsychnurse]

I'd leave that job completely off if I were you. I have a few jobs over the years that I don't put on my resume. One I was fired from, one that was only part time, that kind of thing. Explain the short lapse in employment by telling them that you were working on continuing your education if they ask but decided that you really love what you're doing and want to go back to it.

[mkinn57]

how can you get away with an incomplete work history when applying for government jobs. I also changed jobs quickly in a short time period in fact 3 jobs in a little over a year. How can I explain that? one mad me physically and emotionally ill had to seek medical help went 3 days with zero sleep and headaches daily form the yelling and abuse the other I was laid off after 2 weeks said budget cuts and the last was prn in surgery. help I moved to new state of Ca from Tenn Diploma RN 22 years cant compete in Sunny San Diego