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 This is terrible, I am not familiar with Oregon law we are in CA but my husband is an attorney and I will ask him about this. I know in CA at least if a hospital or any employer gives you a bad revue and you  do not get a job you can sue the previous employer, seems like your labor board should be able to file suit on your behalf. Will get back with any more info I can find. Good luck

I'm really sorry to hear about this too. This unfortunately probably happens more than we hear about. The only thing I can say is to pursue it and get a lawyer if you have to. This is a terrible injustice. And you know if everyone on "B" team knew about your termination before you something just isn't quite right. Have you been to the CEO of the hospital?

Don't give up and certainly don't give up nursing. Wishing you the best of luck on getting the situation taken care of.

this is awful! Is not being "the right fit" really a cause for termination? It doesn't seem like it would be. Couldn't they have transferred you to another unit or given you a choice to transfer somewhere else since you were obviously not happy bieng there. I would think you would have had to have some infraction or failure of job performance to be fired. This doesn't seem right. Don't give up on nursing just because of this. Keep looking.

This has happened to me and L&I stepped in and hospital was in deep brown stuff.  I hope L&I comes through for you, the way it did for me.  For some reason, a way younger RN took a dislike to me, on the very first day.  All I had done was say hello and my name is.  Unfortunately this RN was friends with the nurse manager and also had several years on staff. So, even though I was older, had at least double her years of experience, I was asked to leave before my 90 days were up.  Even though I got her out of a bad situation she didn't know how to handle, that didn't count either. 

When I went to apply for another position, the OR manager when she called me told me my eval from the other hospital was less than stellar and I didn't live up to the experience my  resume stated I had.  Now I was running a room, entirely by myself after less than 3 days of orientation.  My paper work was complete and correct, I did the most difficult cases, but I didn't live up to my resume? I was absolutely devasted.  As I was leaving, one of the anesthesiologists asked where I was going and I said home.  She asked why, I said I was just fired.  She didn't know what to say other than Why? and a few other choice words and she told me to contact L&I as soon as I got home, which I did and they did an investigation.  When I contacted L&I about the comments the other hospital's OR manager had said over the phone, this hospital was also investigated.  The result was they were both heavily fined, my resignation was accepted and documented as I resigned and the rest is history

I'm  a patient but I believe it. my medical care has been affected by the same kind of immature staff. I am blackballed from all doctors offices I try to get into as soon as they get my info and look on the unified medical records system or after the first visit and they contact my previous doctors offices. I am dead certain that except for the last doctor I saw at OMG it has been the staff has been making false and distorted reports about me, reporting falsely on my behavior, using knowledge of my mental condition to provoke and manipulate me and diverting  or distorting my communications to the doctor. The last doctor I saw deliberately tried to provoke a mental breakdown.

Why? you probably ask, I would. The answer is I do not know except that I am a free spirit and fully participate in my own care, and for all the hippie dippie open minded crap propaganda one hears about the place it is as racist, conservative and backward a place as a place can be. Think 1950's Alabama. Oh how the mighty have fallen. I did my best work in high school studying and writing about Oregon, I never would have believed it if I haven't been experiencing it myself.

Like the Model T, you can have any color you'd like as long as you'd like black. In other words;   Celebrate diversity, in all it's many forms as long as that form is exactly the same as ours.

So yea I believe you, but don't hold your breathe the whole state seems to have become corrupt since the last time I lived here and Salem is as bad as anywhere else. You'll probably have to rely on the Feds.

Know any good doctors with good staff?

Oh, I meant to add, that you need to call up some of the places that you have applied to and ask why you weren't hired.  My understanding is, if they (your former employers) are spreading lies about you that is 'defamation of character', if they don't have the evidence to back it up, you can than sue the employer that terminated you.

100% dead right.  Your reputation cannot be maimed by former employers, unless they have hard documentation to back it up (disciplinary reports, failed drug screens, poor evaluations) and even then that is all they can say.  They cannot elaborate or misrepresent any of that, it is defamation of character, you can sue for loss of wages.  I had a former DON, that told me she never said anything beyond what was on the record otherwise her hospital could be completely liable for damages.