Here is my take on the new nurses today. Not all new nurses do this but, at the facility where I work - 80 percent have the following behaviour:
Consistently late to take report (20 minutes average).
Bring their "luggage" to work - fight with kids, husband, lover, married lover, most of the shift - don't these people sleep??
Show no respect to the patient, the experienced nurse and/or doctor.
Spend 90 percent of their time on the computer - and - as soon as the day shift leaves, the IPod or MP comes on either with or without earphones.... so they NEVER hear call lights, telephones, telemetry alarms.
Discuss their business or another staff member's business in the patient's room.
Hold the experienced nurse to public ridicule.
Make fun of this disabled nurse's disability (just happened this past weekend) AND the hospital is sweeping it under the rug.
