WHY do employers that give 2-3 days orientation require a month's notice of resignati

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My current employer gave me 2 days of haphazard orientation (even as a new grad) and somehow still has the nerve to require a full month's notice in order to leave on good terms. Is this normal?? It's a part time position with low pay and no benefits.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

It's pretty normal to require 2-4 weeks notice so that they can post your position, screen the applicants, interview them, select them, and get them started around the time you actually leave. Even if they don't acually fill the position by the time you go, at least they can have someone almost ready to start. And it gives them time to re-do the schedule the fill the holes created by your departure.

It takes a lot longer to actually replace someone than just the time spent on official orientation.

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It's pretty normal to require 2-4 weeks notice so that they can post your position, screen the applicants, interview them, select them, and get them started around the time you actually leave. Even if they don't acually fill the position by the time you go, at least they can have someone almost ready to start. And it gives them time to re-do the schedule the fill the holes created by your departure.

It takes a lot longer to actually replace someone than just the time spent on official orientation.

Thank you. I was planning on giving 2 wks and was informed t h at it's not acceptable.

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Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student.

Hi Nola, do you have another job lined up?

Best Wishes for you!

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

I thought only supervisors were held to the 4 week standard? If you do not have any benefits to lose and have a new job already you may have room to negotiate this? IS it a written policy?

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.
I thought only supervisors were held to the 4 week standard? If you do not have any benefits to lose and have a new job already you may have room to negotiate this? IS it a written policy?

It can vary among facilities. The last job that I resigned from required 3 weeks' notice from their staff nurses.

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Thank you. I was planning on giving 2 wks and was informed t h at it's not acceptable.

Not acceptable? What are they going to do to you.... Pull our your fingernails?

They are trying to wring another couple of weeks work out of you because they cannot keep staff.

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Not acceptable? What are they going to do to you.... Pull our your fingernails?

Nope, they're going to flag you as "ineligible for rehire" and give you a bad reference for the rest of your career. Maybe that matters to the OP, maybe it doesn't.

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Last place I worked had a standard 2-week policy but the manager strongly recommended me to give as much notice as possible, which turned out to be 4 months notice, in writing. We'd had a previous nurse get engaged, said she'd stay until the wedding, but moved to the town her fiance lived in a month after she said that, which was 3 months earlier than anticipated. When I got engaged I wasn't sure if I'd still be working in the same place once I got married because I'd be moving a good bit. Another nurse told the manager that I wasn't going to stay so the manager confronted me and told me to put in writing when my last day would be--a week after I announced my engagement. Needless to say, that made me mad, so I pushed my wedding date up from November to July just to get out of there sooner and turned in my written notice in March. They didn't hire my replacement until my last full week at work, so I had 6 days to train her in an area that no other nurse in our office could do.

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Nope, they're going to flag you as "ineligible for rehire" and give you a bad reference for the rest of your career. Maybe that matters to the OP, maybe it doesn't.

Ineligible for rehire cannot be pulled for giving the standard 2 weeks notice. In fact, the question is hardly in use because of the legal issues it raises.

This sub par facility should NOT be able to make her work past two weeks notice... period.

We are professionals and working under this veiled threat makes us look like children, afraid of a spanking.

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Not acceptable? What are they going to do to you.... Pull our your fingernails?

They are trying to wring another couple of weeks work out of you because they cannot keep staff.

I know you're right--- I might not really care to use them as a reference, but I was hoping to keep them as a PRN gig for awhile.

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Specializes in Oncology/Haemetology/HIV.

Many hospitals require 4 weeks notice for all RNs on staff .

Length of orientation has absolutely nothing to do with the length of notice that you need to provide.

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