Under employed

Hi all I need to talk and am also looking for some career advice PLEASE!!

I was hired as a grad nurse in July 2005 and fired from said job 89 days later. 6 days after passing NCLEX. Got a job in LTC 8 days later and was fired 6 weeks later. Worked 18 shifts. Reasons? Lack of experience and I informed her that I couldn't work swing shifts. [i wasn't informed when I got the job that I had to work swing shifts. I would work 7p-7a be off the rest of that day and the have to come in 7a-7p the day after.]

Completely unemployed until March 2006. I went on several interviews but no job. I was hired at another LTC facility 30 miles away from home. I also applied for Head Start Nurse at the same time. I got the HS Nurse job and quit the LTC. In May 2006, I started working for the LTC again and continued to work for them and HS until January of this year.

I went in to work my Saturday night 12 hr shift and found out I was the only RN in the building. I decided right then and there that I wasn't working there ever again!! I completed my shift, doing my work and the QMAs work, had to call a death, inform the dr., the family and the facility. I didn't get out of there until 0930. I didn't get a lunch break and was there for 14.5 hrs.

When I went in to pick up my paycheck, I checked the schedule and my name wasn't on it so I never went back. I found out from one of the CNA's that State had come in in the middle of the night Sunday after I had worked my shift from H***.

I continued to work for HS and got a job in May 2007 working in HH. I went back to QOSunday in HH to work at Head Start again.

At HS, things went to H*** real quick. I was responsible for ensuring that each chid had a physical before school started. We had switched to new computer program in Feb. None of the enrollments had been done. I didn't get the info needed to inform the bus driver about who could ride the bus. My site superviser ordered me to ride the bus, work as a teaching assistant in the classroom, and to work in the kitchen, because she didn't have enough staff. :angryfire :angryfire

Please don't read that wrong. I don't mind helping in all those areas, but I didn't have my work done. I was trying to get my center ready for health screenings, when I was ordered to do dishes by a teaching assistant. :angryfire :angryfire I told her that as of Oct 12, they would need to find someone else to be their whipping girl, because I was quitting!!

I filled out my resignation form and turned it in to the site supervisor. I continued to work HH and instead of working every other Sunday, I now work every other weekend.

I am also employed with an agency and have worked one shift with them in LTC.

I have gone in to HS several times since I quit to help with paperwork and yesterday we finally finished the health screenings that I tried to do in October. I just didn't feel right leaving the new nurse with all the undone crap. So I helped her out at least once a week. Yesterday, we did capillary lead screenings on 20+ kids.

I can now say that I don't have to go back and help the nurse anymore, because the job I was hired to do there is now done. The nurse is more comfortable with the job and the major screenings are done.

I called the hospital today that I was fired from 2 years ago, to see if I was on their do not rehire list. The lady in HR was nice and asked if it had been 2 years. She then said she ould let them know that I was interested. I filled out apps for them in Oct and November.

Now for the questions:

How do I explain 6 jobs in 2 yrs?

Do I mention that since May 2006 I have worked 2 jobs?

How do I explain resigning from a job but still going in to help the other nurse?

How do I present myself to a hospital?

I really want to work in a hospital, so I can get much needed training.

How do I overcome the fact that I feel like a failure d/t the fact that I have had willy/nilly experience?

Thanks!!