Baffled...

[aboucherrn]

I recently worked with a new grad RN who was absolutely disgusted because her patients did not thank her each and every time she did something for them. How can I delicately say "it's not about you"? Why do people want to be nurses these days... for themselves, or for the patients?

[Sifty]

Did she have any clinical experience from her training? Or have any interaction with the outside world?

She should have realised by now that people are "bastard coated bastards with bastard filling".

[~PedsRN~, BSN, RN]

You know, if they all thanked you for every little thing.... it wouldn't be very special. :) I'm a new grad...I got my first real "THANK YOU" during my last shift... and it was an amazing feeling. I know that I work hard for each one of my patients, but it's nice to hear that you really made a difference to a patient and their family!

[sapphire18]

I am pleasantly surprised when I get a "thank you." And don't think that all new grads are like this or turn it into a generation thing- it's an individual thing.

[loriangel14, RN]

Did she have any clinical experience from her training? Or have any interaction with the outside world?

She should have realised by now that people are "bastard coated bastards with bastard filling".

I hope you are kidding. What an awful thing to say.

[rita359]

I agree it is probably an individual thing but it is going to be a generaltional thing too. How many times do you hear parents thank their children for doing simple things they ask them to do. My parents just responded to something they asked me to do IF I didn't do it (you know what I mean).

Saw recent 60 minutes piece on how employers now have to adapt to the young new employees attitudes. Guess we will adapt.

[klone, MSN, RN]

She should have realised by now that people are "bastard coated bastards with bastard filling".

You sound like a delightful person.

[Sifty]

I hope you are kidding. What an awful thing to say.

Its a Scrubs quote. So no I don't really mean it :).

[Sifty]

You sound like a delightful person.

I am really, I promise:D. As I said before it is a line from Scrubs when some characters were feeling unappreciated.

[GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN]

certainly, i don't expect a "thank you" from all of my patients that's totally absurd. however, when i do hear those two words, the feeling that one gets is difficult to convey, let's say you feel validated if you will. furthermore, i dare to say the similarity goes as well to waiters/waitresses, several of my friends have told me that they encounter costumers that place their orders without ever acknowledging their presence, while others seem so appreciative.

[Mandychelle79, ASN, RN]

While I dont expect a Thank You from any of my patients, it does feel good when people say it.

[coast2coast]

classic scrubs.