Two nurses quit without notice......

[Ling07]

The facility where I work has had two 11-7 nurses quit within four months. But what I find interesting, both quit without notice. No call/No Show. Why are they doing this? Isn't it common courtesy to leave a resignation letter?

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

If 2 nurses quit without notice in a short time, I'd chalk it up to a toxic environment. My previous (non-nursing) job was a toxic environment. Quitting without notice was common. I never did it, but I came close more than once.

[nurseogden]

Most professional nurses do not quit without notice. More likely they were let go. It is the policy at our hospital that other staff are not notified when staff are disciplined and are not allowed to talk to the other staff members about any discipline they receive. So if they were fired, the managers would probably say something like "so and so will not be with us any more". and that would be that.

[Moogie]

Most professional nurses do not quit without notice. More likely they were let go. It is the policy at our hospital that other staff are not notified when staff are disciplined and are not allowed to talk to the other staff members about any discipline they receive. So if they were fired, the managers would probably say something like "so and so will not be with us any more". and that would be that.

I agree with you that most professional nurses don't quit without notice but in an unprofessional environment, anything can happen. I'd heard about staff, mostly CNAs, quitting via no call/no show, and at first I thought it was just that these individuals lacked good work ethics. Turned out that their facility was a particularly toxic work environment and quitting without notice was pretty common. Either the facility erred in consistently hiring staff who lacked work ethics or the workplace was so bad that many felt this was their only way out.

I've also heard too many horror stories about staff, particularly in small facilities, being escorted out the door when they've been terminated. There are places that try to preserve the staff member's dignity by keeping it quiet---and perhaps your institution is one of the good guys---but toxic workplaces will try to humiliate their staff until the very end.

ETA: Maybe this is just personal interpretation here but I think there's a difference between quitting without notice and no call/no show. Quitting without notice might meant that the person tells someone that he/she will no longer be coming into work because that's it, he/she quits. No call/no show is just never showing up for another shift without letting anyone know. If an employee had been fired, it would be up to management to find a suitable replacement, not to just let the evening staff sit there, not knowing what's going on, and wondering if the night person is going to show.

[renee111]

You take the keys you take responsibility.....maybe something was going on that they did not want to be responsible for. Personally I would quit without notice before putting my license on the line.

[Schmoo1022]

Either these two happen to be flakes, or they did it deliberately because they were super angry about something. A poor thing to do and not in one's best interest unless one has already secured a new job. I would suppose that is the case.

I once worked at a small facility that was going through a tumultuous time. One by one, all of the licensed nurses quit, even without a new job lined up. That facility and the problems there became the talk of the town and so did the nurses who worked there. Blacklisted and unable to find work, except for one who planned her escape quite well.

Hmmm I know of a very similiar situation!

[Nurse_Tricia, LPN]

Most professional nurses do not quit without notice. More likely they were let go. It is the policy at our hospital that other staff are not notified when staff are disciplined and are not allowed to talk to the other staff members about any discipline they receive. So if they were fired, the managers would probably say something like "so and so will not be with us any more". and that would be that.

Well, I quit without notice. I have never done that in my entire life and within 4 weeks of having my nursing license I was compelled to do so. I worked for a LTC facility, but they couldn't give me steady and reg. hours so 1 next to my home had a 3-11 f/t postion. i took it and it was horrible. 7 days i lasted - and on my final evening on a sunday after being hit by a resident and asking for help and not 1 out of the 8 cna's on the floor to be around as well as MARS that were loose and were mixed in with other resident MARS, and MARS with no names on them, I couldn't go back.. It was bad bad bad. I told them that Sunday at 11pm I wasn't coming back. I called Monday at 7:30 in the am and finally got a hold of someone after calling for a hour and finally telling the front desk that I just need to tell someone I wasn't coming in at 3pm that day. I spoke with the scheduler who then transferred me to the DON. I told her my why I was not coming back and she was more upset that I wasn't coming in than the things taking place in her building. thank goodness the first LTC facility had an opening that came up in those 7 days and I am happy to be there.

I consider myself to be very professional and I was disappointed that I had to leave like that, but working there was dangerous. If it were not for the first facility (which is the facility where I work currently), I believe after working at the other facility for that 7 days I would have hung my short nursing career up and have ventured on to different opportunities.

[BackfromRetirement]

To quit without notice is unprofessional. It shows disrespect for the profession as well as the other reasons.

[KaroSnowQueen, RN]

Its not unusual in my corner of the world for LTC nurses to quit without notice. Not like it happens every day, but.... Its usually a facility that has gone downhill in the manner in which it treats its employees, started out good, got bought and sold, and each time the nurses get treated worse and worse. Often its a nurse who has been there for years, and stays thinking it will get better, and finally one day she throws down her keys and walks out, shocking everyone. Seen it happen more than once.