Travel RN, fired from first assignment?

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Hello, just looking for some advice on this situation... I just started a travel assignment. After four days working, I got a call from my agency saying I was cancelled due to "concerns with my nursing practice". Which totally blind sighted me. I had no negative feedback from the staff, and had never been told I was incompetent with my nursing practice. ( I have been a nurse a year and a half before this). My agency was helping me figure this out and the unit manager gave some bogus reasons why I wasn't competent. Half weren't even true! So they are trying to help me get a new job. But this is really messing with my head.. and shaking my confidence.. why would they do this? Has this happened to anyone else??

But what happens when your agency doesn’t support you and states that you can no longer be employed by them OR the vendor? 
(bogus claim of ‘unsafe practices’… first I’ve EVER been told that after over 9 years nursing) 

I don’t even know what the next steps would even be. 
How do I find vendors I CAN work with and what am I supposed to put on my resume? 

3 hours ago, JRN29 said:

But what happens when your agency doesn’t support you and states that you can no longer be employed by them OR the vendor? 
 (bogus claim of ‘unsafe practices’… first I’ve EVER been told that after over 9 years nursing) 

I don’t even know what the next steps would even be. 
How do I find vendors I CAN work with and what am I supposed to put on my resume? 

You can select a new agency from the 400 or so current agencies.

What do you put on your resume? If you got a written reference before you were terminated, I would generally put that assignment on your work history (I usually collect my first reference after two weeks into an assignment). If not, well, travelers often take time off so a gap of a few weeks or few months is not something you have to explain. Just leave that assignment off your work history.

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