[suddendaffodill]

we should not eat the young ,but nuture them & mould them as they go on there long journey

[mario_ragucci]

Gerbil will eat it's young, and a seagull will eat their young, for energy to stay alive. Lions "kill" their young, like nurses, but don't eat them. To say "nurses kill their young" is better because I ain't heard no one talking about regurgitating. "the kill" in this case, is when a nurse leaves a place after being killed emotional. Its not a true kill, in the sense.
People say "eat their young" implying it is for survival. It isn't
It's not. Loins, and some other animals, kill for survival, but don't eat them.
It's wrong for people to eat their young, or nurses to commit emotional violence on new nurses without building them back up after scruitiny and "gaming"
Maybe, it's a new initiation, unspoken, Nurse Hazing.

Eating your young for survival, or is all this a hoax? I'm sorry :-(

[mattsmom81]

You will run into a true 'young nurse eater' in time, Mario, but look at it this way: there are always a few bad seeds, but they needn't affect the whole crop....

Some nurses will start out a little impatient with youngsters, but will mellow out when they get to know and like ya...older nurses enjoy the fresh young faces of students, reminds us of our kids ....

And let's not forget it may not necessarily be an 'old' nurse who chews on ya either...I've met quite a few super *****y young nurses (a few years post grad and they are IT) out there! Or... a snarling doc may get ahold of you with his fangs too...... (I'll pull him off you if I'm there)

The docs aren't picky at all tho, they'll chew on us stringy old tough nurses too...and don't worry...you 'll learn how to handle all the 'hazing'. We all did; it comes with the territory.....

Docs put the interns and residents through hell...my husband went through awful hazing in his tradeschool apprenticeship program...a ritual 'passage' or something.....and it is NOT unique to nursing...

[capgirl]

I had heard this expression when I was in nursing school, from an instructor in fact, who warned us to beware!
I am not a new nurse, and came from a very busy very hi acuity position in another hospital, to a small quiet community hospital. My first day orienting to the floor I over heard my coworker say how much she hated orienting new people. How could I not overhear? She was standing right next to me, just not talking TO me. I just ignored her and have made a point not to work with her again. She is also the nurse who walks down the hallway yelling "I am leaving this place", threatening to quit in front of the patients. No wonder our press-ganey scores are so low!!!

[Furball]

Originally posted by capgirl
I had heard this expression when I was in nursing school, from an instructor in fact, who warned us to beware!
I am not a new nurse, and came from a very busy very hi acuity position in another hospital, to a small quiet community hospital. My first day orienting to the floor I over heard my coworker say how much she hated orienting new people. How could I not overhear? She was standing right next to me, just not talking TO me. I just ignored her and have made a point not to work with her again. She is also the nurse who walks down the hallway yelling "I am leaving this place", threatening to quit in front of the patients. No wonder our press-ganey scores are so low!!!

This nasty nurse doesn't happen to work in Troy does she? She sounds like a peds nurse who threw charts at me as a CNA.

[JKNurse]

Yes... it is a fact nurses eat their young. Some of you have commented that this happens in other fields. I have worked in other fields and nursing is by far the worst. As far as nursing school is concerned I have never seen such obnoxious people in my entire life. If I were to tell you how the nursing instructors acted you would never believe it. When we (students) walked out the hospital door after every clincical we rejoiced like we had won the lotto. The "eaters" are out there. Why do they eat their young?
I will give you the answer. The profile of the eater is almost always the same. The eaters are in their 40's (or older in some cases) never married and have no children. Generalizing? you say? Think for a while. I believe you will agree with me.

[cheerfuldoer]

Pesonally, I have never eaten a young nurse, but I've certainly given birth to one. My middle daughter is an LPN! The labor wasn't too terribly bad, but the raising of that nurse was a challenge unlike any other I've ever encountered in my life!

[Wolfpax]

Catlady's remark really struck me funny having once been in emmergency services where the clean utility room tends to look like a carry out place, but yes nurses are hard on other nurses. It seems as though there is no cohesiveness, and many of us tend to take ourselves way too seriously...sometines you just need to give someone a break (as long as they're not euthanizing anyone).

[mario_ragucci]

Seagulls do not eat THEIR young, but will swallow the babies chicks from other gull nests left unattended. Seagull won't eat it's own young, like a gerbil mother will actually eat it's own babies..

I'm not a coo-coo bird for looking at it this way. Other animal behaviors should be considered.

Male lions (and another animal in South America) just kill the young males, and don't eat them. They kill ultimately for their own survival (to an extend) by recognizing it is best to eliminate competition in the bud. Female lions don't do this, and they are the ones who kill the most. Also, a female lion won't get in the way of the male lion during these kills.

In many animal kingdoms, the women also make the kills, right? Women are more preditory then men, right? Maybe not in modern human kingdoms, but usually it's the female that makes the kills for survival of the species. Male Lions, for example, will kill babies, but the female won't do this. Nursing is predominately female at the moment, so I think it is genfer based behavior amongst women. It's some type of instinct for females to kill around other natural born killer females. Evolution has not caught up to nursing.

[nurs4kids]

Originally posted by semstr
O yes, we eat our young, our old, our fat, our thin, our smoker, our sick, our different............
look on this BB, we eat each other!!

Bon Appetit, Renee

ROFLMAO, RENEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love you, girl!