What would you do?

Asking all seasoned nurses please. I am very disappointed with how my last positon ended. I was never written up, nor was I late. I performed my duties as assigned even though I was not given proper orientation to the unit. I requested learning opportunities only for them to be ignored. My peers spoke well of me so no issues there. I did not see the nurse manager because I worked the night shift.

I was currently on the Mother Infant Unit for 6 months but previously I had 1 year of Women's surgical oncology experience. I was falsely led into this position because I was not told until 1 month after I started that it was a night position. I had my 2nd daughter in 2008 and had no desire to work the night shift. This was never discussed during the interview. During this interview this nurse manager asked me what I was looking for. I expressed that I desired a position that would allow me to work Fridays and Saturdays and she was fine with this.

I accepted a PRN which is a first for me since I needed benefits and definitely needed more experience. When I had a meeting with the nurse manager she became very angry because I would not agree that she told me about the night position. When I spoke to a few of my peers it was stated by at least two of them that she did the same thing to them. She then apologied that Monday stating she didn't know why she took our coversation so personal.

I should have walked off the job when she acted the way that she did but unfortunatley I had always wanted to work on a mother infant unit or so I thought. I kept asking for experience in starting IVs because my first job did not allow this they had an IV team. This was mentioned during the interview process. What happened is I ended up working the night shift and I really needed a position with benefits which was also discussed during the interview. I expressed the desire to work in the nursery so that I could one day move into the NICU. This too was discussed during the interview. They chose to start me off on the floor with moms...I already had experience in providing care to women monitoring for bleeding and infection etc... Because of all the teen moms that came to the floor I felt like more of a waitress than a nurse.

I was told that this particular manager was fair and would appreciate me being honest. In my heart I did not think so and I did not listen to my gut feeling. Instead I requested a meeting expressing that I would like to continue on this unit as a true PRN (this was my only position) but I would like the opportunity to seek out a position with benefits. She told me that she supported me and that it was fine (I was not there a year-I hate this rule). She then pulls me off the schedule for April mind you my husband was just laid off from his engineering position along with two other men.

I would always submit my dates of availability she now for two months ignored my emails and phone calls. I got tired and requested a meeting with her manager (something that I did not want to do). Meeting with her boss made no difference she expressed how perhaps the nurse manager missed it..basically making excuses. I was not officially terminated until July 2010 why because supposedly she was allowing me time to find another position! Does anyone see anything wrong with this picture? I could have been working this whole time but no I sat here while looking for other positions at that institution as well as others with no income coming in.

Now when I finally apply for unemployment which is a joke...she reports that I resigned but of course I have the emails in which she states that she is terminating me and what date did I want to have put down. My question is should I contact the chief nursing offficer which is the boss to my nurse manager's boss? I want to let her know how I have been treated. This was all personal and if anyone should be upset technically it should be me since I asked my mother to come down from NY to VA and help us with the baby so I could do orientation for such a lame position.

She then has the nerve to tell me that my schedule and hers were not a match. But...she has posted benefited positions that are part time at night. In one of my emails I asked what her needs were and she did not respond. So sorry for the length of this message but I am just shocked that someone with about 25 years of experience who is obviously waiting to retire would perform in such an unprofessional manner.