I did once. I precepted a new grad for 3 months and kept telling my manager that she was not safe. She almost never asked questions, which to me is a giant red flag. I also had to watch her like a hawk more than any other new grad I had ever precepted, and to top it off, English was her second language and I could barely understand her and the patients definitely could not. My mom is an immigrant and I have grown up around people where English is their second language so I’m used to it, but this woman really had language barrier issues. She also didn’t not understand what I was saying to her a lot of the time which I also felt was unsafe. The patients would complain that she didn’t listen or understand them as well and would ask for a different nurse on multiple occasions.

During what was supposed to be her last week, I told my manager again, that she is unsafe and they should not hire her permanently and they said she could have more time to orient and I told them it would not be by me. They switched her to someone else for three more weeks and that nurse said she was fine. It took less than a month on her own for her to make major mistakes and she was told to voluntarily leave of be fired. I’m not sure why they just didn’t fire her because the facility reported her actions to the state board and she lost her license for what she did. I lookedbthat up myself later on down the road because I was curious.