Get Over Yourself

[TicTok411]

So I started a new job as I attempt to finish school. I am sitting through orientation and they give us multiple speakers and for some reason these speakers love to tell us their background is in critical care. Like that means something special.

One speaker told a long story how they scheduled a meeting with the CNO to demand more money cause they were critical care nurses. Seriously! Any nurse can work in the critical care!

It is a job! You all hold the same degree! Just because you have been trained on different equipment does not make you more valuable than OR, Ortho or Med/Surg nurses - seriously! I have been a critical care nurse and one of my certifications is as a CCRN but I understand that it is just geography and nothing else,

You are not diagnosing, writing orders or doing anything beyond the scope of a bedside nurse - so please get over yourself!!

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

BAHAHAHAHAHA!! Spot on, my friend.....quite the God complex, no?

I have sat through 30 years of EMT retraining (and am also an LPN) where I get to hear ad-nauseum how medics are the best thing since sliced bread and those ER nurses haven't a CLUE. With dramatic story telling regarding superhuman skills to bring someone back from the brink of hell......Uhm, Ok then.

Bottom line--people who teach at all of these conferences about how to build a better mousetrap and other things that go bump in the night have got to have some sort of schlick. They gotta have a story. They have to put on an act. This is what makes people come to their gigs, it is what nurses will choose as their continuing ed, the facilities will choose so that people don't fall asleep during mandatory training.

There are even some, and I hate to say it, that have self esteem issues and their life revolves around their extraordinary mad skillz. You can also tell if this is the case if you ask a question that reverts back to how awesome sauce they are.

With all that being said, I have met some extraordinary critical care nurses. I have met some extraordinary Medics. There are many who are regular posters on this site. But you gotta search them out. As they are the quiet ones who are so humble, you would think that they were not even there. But call a code, and they are calm, collected, direct, clear and concise. The epitome of "in the zone". Those are my favorites, and who I learn the most from.

[WKShadowNP, DNP, APRN]

I don't understand why that story was told in an orientation setting. What was the purpose? Was it perhaps a way to to demonstrate self-advocacy?

I'll refrain from discussion of critical-care differential and its merits or detriments. Congratulations on the new job and good luck in school.

[icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN]

It is standard for any public speaker to establish credibility and describe their experience and possibly their educational background in the introduction.

If someone is employed in the Professional Development dept., I would certainly hope that they are qualified to teach. I would also be annoyed if I had to listen to personal anecdotes during hospital orientation.

[Novo]

I don't understand what the issue is? If they think they deserve a raise it's fully reasonable to ask for one.