Difference Between a New Nurse and an Old Nurse

A new nurse charts too much about stuff that you chart in school and her penmanship is neat. An old nurse charts the pertinent stuff, not neuro checks on an appy patient and hopefully it is legible. A new nurse will have every instrument, kellys, scissors, etc stuck on her waist band handy and accesible. A old nurse is lucky to have tape and a pen in her pocket because she's lost the kellys and her scissors a long time ago. A new nurse will call a Dr at 3am for an enema or for a couple of tylenol. A old nurse will call the Dr. at 6am and tell him I need an order for the enema and the tylenol that I gave your pt at 3am.A new nurse doesn't know what nursing judgement means, A old nurse does! A new nurse hasn't been abused by patients, doctors, the lab, the family members and who ever else there is and maybe made her cry. The old nurse has done that, heard that, been there!A new nurse has not mastered the art of poop cleaning and hasn't given a pt charcoal down an NGT yet or walked in a room with a pt with bm from head to toe and dripping off the bed onto the floor. A old nurse says" oh crap not again "!

I guess I must be a new nurse...

This is so true! We have a new nurse on our unit that is FOREVER trying to send hospice patients to the ICU because she is terrified they will DIE.

And so many of them are planning that perfect wedding with their perfect fiancee and their perfect new house. 6 months later..they are perfectly divorced

A new nurse wants patients with a pain rating of 2/10 to have 2 mg dilaudid.

An old nurse knows better. Here's two Tylenol. Call me when it's over 5 and we MIGHT talk Lortab.

LOL