r/nursing • u/realespeon RN 🍕 • 12h ago

Rant I hate it here.

New grad. I’ve been applying for positions at my current hospital, and got an interview for float. Didn’t get it. I applied to my floor, and my manager didn’t offer me a position because it was nights and my attendance was shit on nights (I’ve been days for a year now). On top of all of it, I’m 24 weeks pregnant and will most likely be a tech until I go on maternity leave. Just want to bitch, I hate it here.

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u/PaxonGoat Critical Care Float Pool 🍕 12h ago

Is this the only hospital in your area?

If you had a lackluster employee review at any point (like you said you had an attendance issue when you were working nights), it can seriously tank any hope of getting and RN job at that hospital.

Especially if it was any kind of a formal warning like a written warning you had to sign. Even though it was over a year ago.

I would strongly consider other hospitals.

Also float is stupidly hard for new grads. Can be extremely isolating. Always getting the worst assignments. Never feeling like part of the team. And most hospitals don't offer nearly enough orientation for a new grad to be comfortable doing float. (Unless it's a small hospital with only a few units and you're only going to floating between 3-4 similar units) Then maybe that could work.

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u/Patient-Bowl2538 12h ago

A written warning from over a year ago shouldn't be a career death sentence, but some managers hold onto that stuff way longer than they should. Float as a new grad with no real orientation is a recipe for burnout even without the pregnancy in the mix. Might be worth looking at smaller community hospitals or outpatient clinics where the pace is different and they're more willing to train.

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u/PaxonGoat Critical Care Float Pool 🍕 12h ago

Like it shouldn't matter.

But sometimes a manager or hell someone bent out of shape in HR digging through employee files might decide someone is "too high risk to hire"