I havebeen working as an assistant administrator for  about a year.  I need advice please.  I am never includied in any decision making. When our corporate manager is in our meeting she schedules meeting with my boss and  and not me.  My boss does not teach me anything. I still do not know alot about the job.  I am trying to do the best job possible, but, not knowing the ins and the outs of the job has me frustrated.  Every thing I do is redone by my boss.  I had such high hopes about the position at the start. I feel if I am not included in decision  making etc. then I do nor belong there.  I have an interveiw on Tuesday. I really do not want to job hop. But, I am frustrated and fell insulted that my boss feels she has to rewrite everything I do. Just venting. Please some advice.

Teresa had a load of good thoughts and ideas and she is right.

Go to your interview.  Be nice to the interviewer and be nice about your current employer.  If asked why you are looking, you can say that:

(1) I have heard good things about you and wanted to at least talk to you to check it out myself. 

(2) Upward mobility is stifled by my higher-ups being happy were they are and I feel I may have hit a ceiling for advancement.

Don't lie, but don't bad mouth either.

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Follow-up with your director and ask for a review of your duties.  "I must have misunderstood the exact duties when I was hired, as you are correcting my work so frequently."  "Can you help me learn how to do it the way you want it done?"  "Would my going to the supervisor's meetings help me do my job and fill in for you if you are gone on vacation or sick?"

Practice your interview and your meeting with your boss with someone.  It is amazing that when you say what you are thinking out-loud, it doesn't  sound quite right.  The other person can help you.  Does not matter if they know your boss or not.  The best critic I had for nursing papers was not my mother the nurse.  It was my dad the nuclear engineer.  He did not know my field, so he did not/could not sugar-coat anything.

Please let us know how it is going.

Tom

Thank you for your comments. I have decided that this job is not worth the every day disfunction.  I was just written up because a client had a low sodium level. He was upset, I explained to him that if he complies with his fluid restriction hopefully  his level will go back to normal. I also explained to him if his doctor feels it is needed sometime a sodium tablet is  prescribed.  I was written up because I should not have told him that.  It was not up to me to give him advice.   When I was on call I received a all that a client refused his medicine.  Five hours later he wanted them. I told them not to give it due to his refusal and it is well past the window.  I was told that I guided the employee wrong. What a bunch of crap.   I will go back to private duty and work with ill children.  I do not need the abuse.

It is just not that issue I am dealing with. I have this nonlicensed person questioning my nursing judgement.  My work is always rewritten.  I have never in my nursing career ever been second guessed. Never was any of my documentation rewritten. I am never told anything she just goes behind my back to our boss. I never was or will be given the chance to explain myself.  She has serious issues and I will not put my nursing license on the line.   This comes form a women who pops Ativan just because her computer will not work.