Anybody else work with a "super nurse?"

[Rapheal]

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?

[Paramedicated]

In EMS we have the PARAGOD whom none shall triffle with. Our best medics are uasualy the ones who are quiet but willing to teach the "new guy" how to do an emergency chest decom. or the right way to push Morphine and so on. The ED nurses seem to be the same way. The best ones are the ones who listen to US when we come in not just blow us off as "Ambulance attendents"

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

I work on a neuro floor which is "sistered" (under same Nurse Director, trades staff pretty freely) with a floor that is mostly trauma and one that is mostly ortho (ortho and neuro were one floor, but we grew).

Many of the trauma nurses are excellent, but there's a feeling (sometimes justified, usually not) that they look down on our nurses. But there's one nurse on my floor admired universally, and on top of everything else, she's respectful to everyone and just seems to exude calm. Role model--you bet. Crush? Well, just a smidge.

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

I can think of one on my unit that fits this description to a tee - except for the magazine part. Nursing journal, MAYBE, but never pleasure reading. She's usually too busy cleaning and stocking the unit in her spare time, as she's usually in charge and the unit is totally organized by the time she leaves each morning. She's also the best IV stick in the place, and never says an unkind word about her coworkers.

She's always so calm and in control...but if it gets to the point that she swears out loud, then we get really worried. Once it's gotten so out-of-hand that even she is freaking out...sheer terror!!!

[zambezi, BSN, RN]

We have one on our unit...she has only been an RN for about 7 years or so but she knows everything--if she read it once she remembers it...she is a great teacher too...if, by chance, she dosen't know something, she will have the answer within an hour...the docs like her, her patients like her, she always has neat and clean patients and rooms...she likes a challenge...she is almost always really cheerful and nice (though I think that some people find her perfectness threatening and don't like her...) She does have her faults too but when I grow up I want to be like her! There is another day shift nurse that is right up there in her category too...my unit has a couple...so I guess I have good role models..

[leslie :-D]

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.

to me, that is far from what i perceive to be a super nurse.

[leslie :-D]

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.

this my friend, is NOT a super nurse. find someone who inspires you.....

[mattsmom81]

YES and I quickly snagged them as mentors. These types make the best preceptors and leaders too if they are genuinely as nice and good as you suggest. :)

[leslie :-D]

it took a few years, but recently it just dawned on me that here on the bb, you can meet many super nurses. and it has nothing to do with the number of posts that the writer has, as we all know that one can quantify w/o quality of content. but now i carefully read all posts that interest me, and am also more conscientous about what i write. this board indeed, has many super nurses, and i continue to learn and appreciate every day.

leslie

[jeepgirl, LPN, NP]

not to that extent BUT i did work with a very dedicated nurse in an LTC. she does eve shift (2-1030) but is at work by 1pm and does NOT leave until about 4am (although she clocks out at 11pm) just to finish her paperworks. she used to be in the military but honestly, i don't know why she can't manage her time. she has a medication aide, who gives all the meds. i really don't know how hectic it gets during her shift...i was just thankful that she did not leave me unfinished work. :)

i have no idea where i got this thought, but i thought you always had to be on the clock if you were working? even if thats writing on a patients chart?

sounds like she needs some help getting organized OR she enjoys being at work a little too much!! :-)

[nurseunderwater]

There is a CRNA that works at my hospital...same deal, tall, athletic and strong in appearance and smart as h***. I sometimes wonder about natural selection and the end of the weeding out of the gene pool. Though I have to say...I'm not chopped liver:)

[nurseunderwater]

it took a few years, but recently it just dawned on me that here on the bb, you can meet many super nurses. and it has nothing to do with the number of posts that the writer has, as we all know that one can quantify w/o quality of content. but now i carefully read all posts that interest me, and am also more conscientous about what i write. this board indeed, has many super nurses, and i continue to learn and appreciate every day.

leslie

ahem...like you leslie :kiss:

[husker-nurse, LPN, LVN]

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.

We must work on the same floor; do I know you???? :rotfl: But, I have noticed that OUR Super Nurse copies my assessment, word for word, on occasion; do ya suppose she thinks she taught me well????