Yeah in patient care my experience is you can never retaliate against a patient. Just document it and report it to administrators on your EMR system. Depending on what happened/if it happens again they might decide to discharge the patient.
You gotta tell them why you got fired in interviews and you better make it sound like you're sorry/acknowledge it as a mistake. If you don't you will never get hired again. If you don't tell them, they will call your old place and find out anyways.
From this point on I'm gonna assume that you're not sounding sorry about the incident in your interviews, if this is not the case, my bad.
Here is the mentality you need to take to get past this. You can never be aggressive towards a patient in your care. Patients are extremely vulnerable to the people caring for them and there's a massive power imbalance that is easy to abuse. Trust between patients and hospital staff cannot be broken. Employers might understand you losing your temper once, but if you're acting like you got screwed over by your old job in the interview that will be a deal breaker 100% of the time. You will always have to deal with mean patients in this field and the people interviewing you will think you're gonna do it again and worry that you might escalate from verbal abuse to physical abuse. There are plenty of horror stories about nurses doing evil shit to patients they don't like.
The biggest requirement in this field/most fields is being easy to get along with. If you had a messy exit from your past job/your old coworkers didn't like you then you better sound extra sorry in the interview. I know it sucks having to apologize for this but it really is your only option if you want to continue in this field. I guess if you really don't want to, you can just not put your last job in your resume.
Yeah in patient care my experience is you can never retaliate against a patient. Just document it and report it to administrators on your EMR system. Depending on what happened/if it happens again they might decide to discharge the patient.
You gotta tell them why you got fired in interviews and you better make it sound like you're sorry/acknowledge it as a mistake. If you don't you will never get hired again. If you don't tell them, they will call your old place and find out anyways.
From this point on I'm gonna assume that you're not sounding sorry about the incident in your interviews, if this is not the case, my bad.
Here is the mentality you need to take to get past this. You can never be aggressive towards a patient in your care. Patients are extremely vulnerable to the people caring for them and there's a massive power imbalance that is easy to abuse. Trust between patients and hospital staff cannot be broken. Employers might understand you losing your temper once, but if you're acting like you got screwed over by your old job in the interview that will be a deal breaker 100% of the time. You will always have to deal with mean patients in this field and the people interviewing you will think you're gonna do it again and worry that you might escalate from verbal abuse to physical abuse. There are plenty of horror stories about nurses doing evil shit to patients they don't like.
The biggest requirement in this field/most fields is being easy to get along with. If you had a messy exit from your past job/your old coworkers didn't like you then you better sound extra sorry in the interview. I know it sucks having to apologize for this but it really is your only option if you want to continue in this field. I guess if you really don't want to, you can just not put your last job in your resume.
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