Now, with my unit closed w/low census, I float and sit constantly. It's getting harder for me to sit still all day, but I am not complaining since it is important work none the less.
The hardest part is to sit someplace new to you, and everyone there at the new unit knows your a sitter and basically ignores you. Yall know how I will be my best nurse and yours too, so I want to know if anyone else has ever suffered from anxiety when they are feling like they are being ignored by any staff. How do you deal with that? Has anyone just accepted not speaking to other eople for an entire shift - like some kind of "radio silence" nurses keep because they are cracked :-)
Today, a male nurse made fun of my name Mario because it's pronounced with a short "a" sound, and not with the hard "h" sound. Then I actually confronted a nurse about entering the room and not looking or attempting a standard, minimal greet. I felt like a teacher having to explain how it's necessary to at least make eye contact with other staff as you enter a room. I don't wanna feel like someones pop :-(
Will taking an anti-depressant make the sad feeling of experiencing this behavior go away? It's just hard sometimes, I guess, when you sit for too long. Any sitters out there who want to vent like me. I need to read. Thank you. I'm sorry :-(:uhoh21: :uhoh21:
