So, my thread is not just about me and my hideous experience with my preceptors and the management and my eventual broken hearted fall. No, let it be about you and your cathartic experience ( a learning experience) at a new place of employment and how it might have gone awry and how the markings of it were a dead give away: failure will soon ensue. Or could be about your complete triumph...a success story, a joyful new enterprise. Your work, the ideal of the nursing practice act so to speak... There are two ends to this thread, this beast... So, here it goes...me first ok!
You Know your hospital orientation is finished when...
Your preceptor uses the term "self conscious" to point out something you need to be more conscious of. You take the time to correct her English, knowing that deep down, since her English thus far had been amazingly perfect during orientation she might be grateful for your pointing this out. OOPS! Big mistake. She even says she knows she is correct in its usage and chooses to ignore your statement. OUCH!
God Bless you all...and wish me luck on finding work soon!
...you're supposed to start the nights orientation and get a call telling you not to come in that night but to be in the nursing office at 0900 in the morning. Hm-m-m...so I brought my badge and all my orientation folders and sure enuff I was bulldozed into resigning. I asked if another floor would be better fit for me and apparently they didn't want to bother with the new graduate nurse. But that's okay, it was a blessing in disquise.
Believe it or not. About 12 years ago I showed up for my first day in a LTC facility. I knew my orientation was over before it started when they said, you will be taking the entire south hall by yourself. Needless to say that job lasted less than the time it took for them to say "you will be on your own sorry but we are short staffed"....hummm now you are really short staffed ....see ya suckers...lol
...you are right about the sobbing! I felt so betrayed and stupid and unwanted. Isn't orientation the time to quide the new person? If I had been unsafe I could have understood but it wasn't that.
...you are right about the sobbing! I felt so betrayed and stupid and unwanted. Isn't orientation the time to quide the new person? If I had been unsafe I could have understood but it wasn't that.
Hey, I was once terminated because I didn't "fit in."
...when your preceptor corners you in the supply room, sticks her finger in your face and procedes to cuss you out and promising you won't make it thru orientation. And you have no idea what you did wrong.
And you were warned on day one by no less than 5 other nurses to watch your back because this preceptor was EVIL.
Clearly a simple personality conflict gone to the extreme! I quit immediately the next morning. There are too many great places to work to put up with that brand of toxicity. As others said, it was a blessing in the end. I also made sure to name names in the 3rd party exit interview. I took their expensive investment in my new grad training the the competion. Happily ever after.
Sorry folks for the misunderstanding regarding everything. I felt the organization that I was working for was nice. However, when you feel personality clashes and you find that your days are numbered. It's best to resign rather than remain there and their finding all sorts nit picky excuses to let you go....I don't think my firing had to do only with my correcting one individual on a common idiom we English speakers take for granted. I just thought a thread like this one would go over the just and unjust ways a new nurse to a hospital is judged, that is all. 'Nough said.
Specializes in Cardiac/Telemetry, Hospice, Home Health.
To add a little humor - I have a zillion stories about why my orientation "should" have been over but thankfully wasn't...
I had to call a cna into the room to show me how to secure a urine specimen container. Seriously, it was a different kind and I thought it was supposed to snap on but it was a screw on cap and the room was dark. I was seriously embarrassed.
I had a guys member in my hand and was inserting a cath and my preceptor kept clearing her throat saying casually "just turn it around now". I didn't know what she was talking about until I realized I had his member all twisted around in my hand. Quite frankly my preceptor literally dumped me that day. I think she told my manager it was personality differences. Her patience was maxed with me. I was so hurt because I really liked her and would go home everyday raving about how lucky I felt to have such a great preceptor.
I was a problem child in the beginning. I cannot believe I am even admitting these stories. You would think I was a number one ditz.
I am really not at all. I was just extremely nervous and it impacted me a lot in the beginning.
Oh like the time I realized I had been faxing paperwork upside down...
Specializes in Burnout & Resiliency Coaching for Nurses.
hahaha! that is awesome, although would have been great if you said you can't fire me, I QUIT. good luck i'm sure you will find something way better. :)
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SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN
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It certainly makes one uncomfortable.