Title says it all . Second semester baby nurse in clinicals at a major hospital.
Patients = Awesome
Most Nurses = Very sweet and helpful
Some nurses are rude, terse, horrible with patients, horrible with students and horrible with each other.
To those nurses I say this, please retire.
Its only a matter of time before management figures out they can live without you and hire some very hungry and very competent new grads that want to be there to fill your dusty shoes....
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sadly the vast majority of the time these happen to also be charge nurses....in charge of what? Misery?
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Wow, hmm well, here is the deal, you folks trying to deny that customer service is important in nursing are in for a rude awakening if you can please pardon my pun.....
You will have to learn from your own experiences......
Good luck in your journey
Honey, I have been doing this job for a lot of years. I'm respectful, caring and compassionate to my patients. I miss lunch and breaks to hold their hands when they are frightened. I have been in overtime staying with a dying pt and their family. I will jump on their chest and give them drugs, so they can live to see another day. I'm their advocate when they can't speak. I will protect their well being with everything I own while under my watch.
It's not about thanking the pt as they leave for choosing XYZ memorial. It's not about putting up with the 25 family members camped out in room and eating the pt's meal and asking for more. I refuse to placate a drug addict by giving him more dilauded because he is threatening to report me to management if I don't medicate him now, just to keep good customer service.
Yes, you can't have nurses being physically or verbally abusive. Nobody should be that way in any job.
I tell you what. Get your nursing degree and go work a few YEARS on a med/surg floor. You might whistle a different tune by then.
Just bc you have grand kids does not mean you aren't being ageist. You may not mean to but you are coming across as narcissistic with a superiority complex. Ease up and you may get some advice that would help you understand what you are experiencing and how to appropriately deal with your emotions.
Yes yes I can certainly see your point Michael, thanks for pointing it out. I apologize folks for coming off with the superiority complex thing..was not my intent.....
Nurses are also there to therapeutically communicate with patients and their familes, to treat their patients as holistic beings by attending to body, mind and spirit....
There is much more to nurses than pushing drugs and performing CPR......ya know...the art part yes?
Nurses are also there to therapeutically communicate with patients and their familes, to treat their patients as holistic beings by attending to body, mind and spirit....
There is much more to nurses than pushing drugs and performing CPR......ya know...the art part yes?
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
Nurses are also there to therapeutically communicate with patients and their familes, to treat their patients as holistic beings by attending to body, mind and spirit....
There is much more to nurses than pushing drugs and performing CPR......ya know...the art part yes?
NEWFLASH! If we don't push the drugs or perform CPR, the person might die..
Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
My only problem with the OP was the word "old", because dried up bitter nurses come in all ages! I agree, it doesn't matter if you're keeping a job because the economy is bad and you have to - everyone deserves to be treated with common courtesy. Anyone, young or old, who shows a crappy attitude toward their customers (and I do agree - patients are your customers) and coworkers needs to be looking for another job. Having years of expertise is no excuse for acting horrible to other people.
I was recruited by a hospital during clinicals. This particular hospital had a high ratio of bitter, horrible people working in the unit where my clinicals were. I turned down their offers and told them exactly why - I would not even consider working in a place where the nurses treated the students the way these nurses did. And the way they treated the patients was not much better.
I'm with you, OP. And this doesn't even just apply to nursing - it applies to any job. If you hate it so much that you make it part of your job to make everyone around you just as miserable and hateful as you are, then it's time to move on. The only point I would differ on is that age has anything to do with it.
I completely agree.
To the OP I think the biggest problem here is your choice of wording and coming to the main nursing area and putting down nurses. It would have been better to word the title differently and not just leave it to nurses. Maybe vented in the student section.
Like you; majority of the staff in the hospital I encountered were great. At 3 different hospitals. Not just the nurses but the aides and so on. But there was that small percent of ALL areas that were very cringe worthy, they were rude, negative mean spirited people and it showed and they treated the people around them that way. They definitely needed a new field of work. It was obvious burnout and the co-workers, studetns, patients do not deserve to be treated like that.
All people deserve a level of respect in my opinion if they are giving respect. Being a student or a patient doesn't mean you have to "earn" anything to be treated with decency.
I get the point you were trying to make and completely agree; unfortunately like most things in life, presentation is everything.
Just try to remember when you see the "cringe worthy" stuff that you make sure to not become the very person you loathe. I have told my husband and friends that if I ever get to a point where I dread going to my job and dislike majority of the people I see then it's time to retire and find a new field of work.
I'm confused as to how meeting your patients' needs takes away from Nursing. Complaining about bringing people something to drink - what is that preventing you from accomplishing? It's an act of caring and kindness.
Wait, aren't you the guy that started all the crap a few months ago about how it's immoral for women to seek employment when they know they are pregnant? :icon_roll
Know what gets under my skin? People that like to stir up crap just to create drama, and then try to justify it as 'discussion'.
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Honey, I have been doing this job for a lot of years. I'm respectful, caring and compassionate to my patients. I miss lunch and breaks to hold their hands when they are frightened. I have been in overtime staying with a dying pt and their family. I will jump on their chest and give them drugs, so they can live to see another day. I'm their advocate when they can't speak. I will protect their well being with everything I own while under my watch.
It's not about thanking the pt as they leave for choosing XYZ memorial. It's not about putting up with the 25 family members camped out in room and eating the pt's meal and asking for more. I refuse to placate a drug addict by giving him more dilauded because he is threatening to report me to management if I don't medicate him now, just to keep good customer service.
Yes, you can't have nurses being physically or verbally abusive. Nobody should be that way in any job.
I tell you what. Get your nursing degree and go work a few YEARS on a med/surg floor. You might whistle a different tune by then.