Published May 1, 2012
1964nurse
21 Posts
Well as I have previously posted, I took that job and it was overwhelming in the beginning. Any hoo, lastweek I decided to tell the administrator that I'm feeling more comfortable doing them and things were going better. (after 3 weeks of doing them). Well she tells me she needs to talk to me before I leave that night. (I thought I was going to be fired). So I go to her office and she tells me they don't think this is the job for me, that they feel I was going to slow and they haven't trained me in scheduling them and feel that the scheduling of them is going to put me over the edge. BUT they don't want to lose me as an employee because I'm a good nurse and the people really like me, and they want me to continue to doing the MDS's until they find someone else. So..... We're offering you a fulltime 2nd shift nurse position as a desk nurse. I told her, there are alot of distractions in the office and it takes me awhile to get something but once I get it, I get it. I also stressed how I am very detail oriented and doing my job accurately was important to me. Well regardless the ADON just feels the scheduling portion is going to put me over the edge. She then proceeds to try and convince me that they've been wanting to hire an RN charge nurse for 2nd shift for quite sometime and it wouldn't be floor nursing it would be a desk nurse. I said I'd let her know the next day. So I put my 2 weeks notice in the next day and she says she understands. Two hours later the DON and ADON call me into her office and ask me stay and work the month of May as they have 3 conferences to go to and it would help them out greatly. They told me I would just be doing MDS's and I said, "I thought I wasn't doing them right." She tells me Well you're doing them okay, it's just I feel the scheduling of them is going to be too much for you." Then they proceed to try and convince me to take the 2nd shift position or at least stay in house pool. I'm thinking What? the heck is going on here? So I told them I's stay an extra week and that's it as I need to figure out what I'm going to do next. So now I just found out one of the 2nd shift LPN's was hired to do the desk job almost a year ago, and when she transferred over there she did the job for one day and they fired a nurse they wanted to get rid of , pulled her to the floor and she hasn't worked the position at all. I feel cheated, humiliated, ticked off and hurt. Anyone else been cheated like this ??? Thanks for letting me vent.