A happy rant about my nursing coworkers :)

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I am reading a lot of posts on this site that talk about how nurses "eat their young" and are catty, short tempered, and rude. I guess I got very lucky with the group of women I work with. (And I can say women because there is not one man that works on my floor.) Anyways, I work on a med/surg floor and 99% of my coworkers are supportive and kind to each other. If I am having a bad day and am quiet or look sad, I can expect my coworkers to ask me whats wrong or to try to cheer me up. We all ask each other on a regular basis, "how are your kids? how is your new house coming along? did you have a good weekend?" Recently when I made a pretty big mistake, the nurse that caught my mistake sat with me while I cried and hugged me and drilled it into my head that we all make mistakes and to not be too hard on myself but to learn from it instead. We are all pretty good about asking others if they need help if they are looking swamped, and if someone is upset about something a doctor said to her we all rally around that nurse and make her feel better. It really makes for an enjoyable work environment and I am happy to go to work everyday. I think that others should try to be the same. There are times when you should be assertive but for the most part, life is too short to be angry.

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Specializes in Pediatrics - hoping to get into the NICU.

I finally start on the floor with my preceptor this friday, after all the new employee and nursing orientations and computer charting training....lol, I pray that I get a good preceptor and that the staff is supportive......that will make or break this whole orientation experience.

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Specializes in Oncology/Palliative Care.

I have to agree with you OP. I work oncology/med surg, but we get a lot of palliative care pts also. My co-workers and nurse manager have made me want to stay and not look for work elsewhere. They have supported me and taught me a lot (I am now just one year out, BSN). We help each other out, check on each others' beeping IV pumps, and my nurse manager is never above jumping in to help out. Her favorite quote is "There's no I in TEAMWORK" :D

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I love all of this positive talk of nursing support and teamwork! It makes me have hope that someday I may actually get to experience it.

Thank you for posting your happy rant! I wish I could read more like this!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Transplant.

It's always sooo good to see posts like this on the new-grad portion of the site :-)

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Specializes in Endoscopy/MICU/SICU.

That's great KSU. I'm 6 months in and having the same great experience as you. My coworkers are wonderful and supportive, just as you have described. I guess all nurses don't eat their young :)

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