Have any of you started a job where it felt "off" on day 1? As in there was no clear training plan or preceptor and no one seemed to care if you were there or not? Just started a new PT clinic position and reconsidering my decision. :(
Yes and I walked out in about 20 minutes.
Absolutely. I had started my first day in a new very well known, public teaching hospital. As a nurse practitioner, I considered my self, first and foremost, as a clinician. Within hours of buddying up with the NP who was charged with orienting me, he attempted to show me how to type up the individual Dr.'s schedules, process endless disability claims, generally handled by clerical personnel, then sent to providers for a signature, personally schedule patients in the computer, order routine medical supplies, call in prescriptions for one of the doctor's wives, and on and on. In addition, other NPs were spending their days in the gym, or engaged in personal business on their work computers, preparing charts for the clinic patients, rooming the patients, cleaning the rooms afterwards, which are all functions typically carried out by nursing assistants who were all going to lunch en mass or sitting in the nurses' station. Worst of all was the lack of professional decorum and the shocking extent of verbal violence. Boy, did I get push back for insisting on functioning as a provider. It is not as though I had the attitude that I was above it all. It was simply that there were numerous nursing assistants in the clinic who had been permitted to bully the NPs into doing their work. Never ever believe the line from management that they were glad you informed them of the obvious, destructive and unproductive dynamics in the work place. They already know and they don't want to hear it. Listen to your own self and make note of the red flags and look for a new job ASAP. I made the mistake that I would be supported in working as they very experience NP that I was
Yes. I just got transferred from my position and "forced" into another. I felt like I had one foot out the door from day 1. I did not have an orientation packet or clear expectations. I lasted 8 months before changing jobs. I was at my last job for 9 years :(
Not exactly the same, however I started a new job and everything felt so uncoordinated from day 1. When I had questions about where to go for things like ID badge, EMR access, etc., I was directed in circles. Nobody seemed to have answers. It's frustrating, I feel that shouldn't land on a new hire's shoulders to have to figure out their own back-end stuff. I'm now 4 months in, and it hasn't really gotten any better.
The attitude of some employees are like that if the hiring institution does not emphasize or does not have a policy in place to orient a new employee especially if the new employee is new to the institution. I usually ask the recruiter or the employment institution the expectations and orientation process it has before accepting employment rather than dealing with the unfriendly and negative attitudes of staff and management afterwards.
I took a job that felt “off” on day 1. Second day the training was poor, caught them in several lies about the position, travel time, locations,etc. I quit on day 3. Never regretted my decision.
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Yes,but part of education should include methods of coping or adaptation and modification of procedures. Human beings have individual needs and nurses should understand ways to met these needs based on scientific principles ,rules and laws that must be followed for safe nursing practice.
Starting in a new facility is challenging enough, but can be even more difficult if there is no structured onboarding. Request to be provided the unit and/or organizational policies that you should be learning. Ask to be paired up with a buddy who will orient you to unit norms (e.g. where huddle announcements take place, how you get your assignments, phone extensions you should know, disaster information, etc). Request for someone to shadow or be paired up with at least on your first 2 days of providing patient care and communicate if you need additional support after. Best of luck!
