I am a new RN. I worked as a tech for 3 years, but due to COVID had to move back home. I recently started a job back home as an RN and the culture is quite bad. Yes, many units have a culture of gossip but this is really to an extreme, like gossiping about anything and everything about fellow staff (sex life, family, appearance - nothing is off limits to them). I am gay and it is fairly obvious. I am confident in myself and my sexuality, but I have quickly learned my fellow RNs are quite homophobic and prejudice (race, religion, literally anything they can discriminate against they will). Yes everyone has their own opinions and beliefs, but openly speaking against it especially in healthcare shouldn't be a thing. Yes, you could report them but 1) it is pretty much unit-wide 2) retaliation 3) very obvious it would be me.
Understandably I am uncomfortable with this and I am not one to endorse or partake in gossip. The "benefits" and overall morale of the hospital is poor and they quite obviously do not care much for their employees. I know the golden rule is to stay at least a year, but I would like to move back to where I was and get a job there ASAP.
Would 6 months be feasible? How could or should I explain my short time period in my position?
Reapply to another job of your preference. As soon as you are hired with 100% certainty. Cut your losses. There comes a time when blind loyalty to a company is not worth being miserable to satisfy "grace periods". Companies dispose nurses without regard to grace. Your loyalty starts with yourself.
If the job is in another city then that is your reason, simply say you like the area you used to live in and always intended to move back when you got your RN.
Maybe there is a way during the exit process to let them know they have homophobia rampant just to let yourself be heard.
Specializes in ED, Tele, MedSurg, ADN, Outpatient, LTC, Peds.
Great advice from all!
Find your happiness, leave on good terms, stone wall (do not engage)them when it comes to gossip and if there is one person there you trust, ask them to be your reference. If you plan not to use the institution as your reference you can always say " You were taking care of a personal business/family member " for the last 6 months at the next interview.Leave on good terms especially with HR and don't give them " a piece of your mind" when you leave. It will be looked on as unprofessional. Instead like I did, after 1.5 years of going through hell in a toxic workplace and going through the proper channels and getting nowhere, I transferred and shook the dust of my feet from that place! Heard they all are still miserable and tearing into each other and I am in a much happier and caring environment! Wrote a book and went back to school and got my DNP! Show them what you are made of and get off the whirlpool circuit!! This too shall pass!
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Reapply to another job of your preference. As soon as you are hired with 100% certainty. Cut your losses. There comes a time when blind loyalty to a company is not worth being miserable to satisfy "grace periods". Companies dispose nurses without regard to grace. Your loyalty starts with yourself.