What Would You Do?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice.

I am an RN at a LTC facility. I have been working there for several months, but it is an awful job with a poor nurse/resident ratio and it is causing me great physical pain because I am on my feet running up and down hard floors for 8 1/2 hours every shift without a break.

A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed for a contingent position in a local hospital. I have several years of hospital experience. I could tell that the interview went very well, and the lady who interviewed me even said, "Good interview!" and was describing things to me like the dress code, absentee policy, etc. that are things one probably wouldn't share with someone that they weren't planning on hiring.

Sure enough, I got a call last Friday from a lady in the hospital's HR department telling me congratulations, if I wanted the job it was mine, and she was going to email me a copy of the contract to look over over the weekend, which she did, and she asked me to call her back Monday (yesterday) to let her know if I wanted the job. I called her yesterday, got her voice mail, and left her a message stating that I would like to accept the position. This was at around 9:30 AM. She never called back, so at around 3 PM, I called the HR dept. and told the secretary that I had called the lady back, as she asked me to, and I wondered if she got my message. Her reply was, "Did you get her voice mail? Oh, she's been in and out of interviews all day, but if you left a message, she'll call you back."

So now, here it is, Tuesday afternoon at almost 4:30 PM and still no call back. I am getting worried that maybe they have changed their minds about hiring me, and I already gave my two weeks' notice to my current employer after the lady called and offered me this job last Friday. It's not that I really have any regrets (other than financial ones, of course, although I am married, my dh works, and we have another source of income as well) because I know that I can't do this job anymore physically anyway, as it has given me plantar fascitis, sciatica, and other assorted aches and pains that I can't sustain any longer.

Sorry this got so long, but the bottom line is: would you call the lady at the hospital again and leave another message? Should I just assume that she has been busy and continue to wait for a call back?

What would you do in my shoes?

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Hi,

If I were you, I would try calling again. If I'd get the voice mail again, I wouldn't leave a message, but instead call the HR department and find out when this lady would be available in the office. Then go there personally and meet her. This would prove 2 things. That you are a proactive person who does not take things lying down, but goes and gets it. Second, that you are quite serious about this job.

Just my 2 cents!

All The Best!

Shabbir

http://www.usa-jobs-forever.com

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice.

Thanks for the advice. I will try to call again today if I don't hear from her by about noon or so.

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