I am a new dialysis nurse, well a new nurse period, and until today I loved my job and the people I work with although they've been a little slow to warm up to me on a personal basis.
Here's my delima....
I am in training and my preceptor is a tech and a DAMN good one at that. I have no problem with her being a tech. I understand I have to learn the nuts and bolts of dialysis before I can go on and it is my understanding that I will go on to be preceptored by an RN later in the game. That said, of course I'm excited about being an RN and wanting to jump in with both feet but know I have to take baby steps as boring as I might think some of them are.
Today I had my first evaluation and my FA and preceptor said I had an attitude about my being an RN and that the techs weren't happy. I was blown away! I thought all this time I'd been showing, if not telling them how great I thougth they were blah blah blah...
I'm beginning to think that it's the other way around, that the techs have an attitude about me being an RN but not knowing much of anything about dialysis.
I'm interested to hear from other dialysis employees, both techs and nurses. I'd like some pointers on how I can avoid saying anything in the future that will piss them off. I hate offending people and this really has me upset.
The only thing I can think of is to never use the term tech or nurse again and stick to our companies term of "teammate" or refer to them as crew memebers, but that seems a little silly to me because after all there IS a difference in training, licencing etc, otherwise the state of Texas would licence us all as "Dialysis Peoples".
HELP!