Anybody else work with a "super nurse?"

SugarMagnoliaMom · Jul 20, 2004

Ba-humbug...LOL

I have a friend like this, altho not in nursing. But she is SUPER MOM AND WIFE - her home is PERFECT, her children always dressed beautifully. She is very quick and intelligent (I am more the "what was that word...hmmm, I can't rmemeber" type!). She makes me sick! LOL

RN4NICU, LPN, LVN · Jul 20, 2004

My colleagues work with super nurse

night owl · Jul 20, 2004

I used to know a "super nurse." She was eventually fired because she was a drug addict. Always had that blank look :stone and could work rings around anyone.

bpowers · Jul 20, 2004

It's kinda funny, but where I work, the "super nurse" is more of a diragatory (sp) remark when talking about the nurse who thinks she knows everything, or who can top any story you tell with something even more dramatic. :uhoh3:

She is every thing I am not. She is tall, super intelligent, witty. She can wrap every doctor around her little finger. She talks doctors into giving orders that she feels are more appropriate then what is currently ordered. And she is always right on target in her suggestions. She is also very helpful, nice, and so organized that she has free time to glance thru a magazine or sit down during her shift. She also commands respect and does not take any dirt from anybody. I am watching and hoping some of it will rub off on me.lol :chuckle
Anybody else work with one of these immortals?

Angela Mac · Jul 20, 2004

I used to be a "super nurse", back in my youthful, "save the world" days. But that high energy, having good instincts, making super assessments and being dead-on, does not last forever. Now I have slowed down to a snail's pace & I am second guessing myself, and I am only 42. I found that I am hard on myself & judgemental, I can't live up to my former self....I have questioned whether I have blown a fuse and am burning out, or if I am not aging with any grace.

.............pace yourself...slow & steady wins the race...I should have paced myself.

oramar · Jul 20, 2004

Follow this nurse around with a hidden camera please and send me a copy of the tape. I want to see how she does it.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Jul 20, 2004

Tall ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Signed, Amazon Temptress

KacyLynnRN · Jul 23, 2004

I work with some fantastic nurses that I can only hope to aspire to be half the nurse they are. There are 3 girls at work that no matter what my question is, they either know it immediately or know exactly how to get the answer ASAP. They are organized, efficient, and very, very patient about sharing their wealth of knowledge...it means the world to me that anytime I have asked them to help me, they have and I have probably asked them a thousand dumb questions and never once did they act like it was a dumb question. I hope that could be me someday!!! :)

leslie :-D · Jul 23, 2004

Tall ain't all it's cracked up to be.
Signed, Amazon Temptress

:rotfl: :rotfl: ...it's lonely at the top, yes?

suzy253, RN · Jul 23, 2004

:rotfl: :rotfl: ...it's lonely at the top, yes?

so being 5'11" isn't going to help me? :wink2: :wink2:

movealong · Jul 23, 2004

I worked with a super nurse. I admired her depth of knowledge. However, she was not a pleasant person to be around. She knew she was smart, and made sure everyone else knew it too. And she let others know they weren't as smart either.

cnyrn · Jul 23, 2004

It's kinda funny, but where I work, the "super nurse" is more of a diragatory (sp) remark when talking about the nurse who thinks she knows everything, or who can top any story you tell with something even more dramatic.

Same thing at my hosp. super nurse is the one who takes the easiest assignments (the one's who are being D/c'd and the ALOC's,taking one more pt. than the rest of the staff so she won't get an admit) sits around all day and hides out in an empty room,(so she won't have to help-out of sight/out of mind) but when the md or super is around, she whips into action, pointing out all the wonderful things she had done this shift,as in how superior her care was, how her patients are miraculously recovering under her eye.