Do new graduates RN's get ,easier patients?

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I'm about to graduate soon and will apply for a job obviously in the hospital (as my name suggest it).I was wondering how true is that at the beginning of their career/training,after orientation the nursing manager tries to assign more stable,easier patients to new graduates....and for how long or am I living in fantasy world?

Specializes in Telemetry & Obs.
The less friends I started to have the less problems I have and I'm not saying that people should be antisocial,but I dont need to chit chat with all the people I work with.You can be friendly without becoming friends on the deeper lever.

What a sad comment.

This is what I dont understand,you base your opinion on several of my previous posts, actually I have no problem with making friends with women as well as men...I'm a very nice and friendly person around school and avoid being rude however I also have my own opinion that I feel I have the right to express regardless if people agree with or not,if that makes me rude than I guess America can to be a very sad place.

What else do we have to base opinions on if not your posts?

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Do you have trouble maintaining relationships generally in life, lovehospital? I know nursing school can be socially difficult. But eventually one of the skills you'll need to learn is how to fit in somewhere.

I'm no social butterfly myself, but I've learned the important skill of connecting with people at work, and above all developing a rapport with the patients, no matter who they are or what I might really think of them. There's always some common ground you can find with most anyone.

You can practice here at allnurses. I've noticed that you don't seem to connect with people here. You seem to pride yourself on your role of being an outcast.

Now, look at me. I'm an oddball who starts a lot of threads, some of them off the wall. YetI don't play the role of an outcast here. I'm eccentric, and I march to my own drummer. You can still be a little outrageous and nonconformist and fit in in nursing.

No not at all,but also I dont really care about that.I think this come with age.

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whew!!! I can't wait for the "I'm being eaten" and the " I was fired for no reason" threads I see in your future..Your posts demonstrate clearly the mind set of many nurses entering the field today.THAT is a good reason for the high numbers that get out of nursing fast.They expect to be handled with kid gloves and when reality smacks them in the face they can't handle it so they quit.But rather then own their own mistakes they blame it on us experienced nurses.....

Honey,I was never fired from a job,actually when I entered nursing school and was planning to quit my boss literally begged me to stay.

Believe what you want and I dont even no why I bother to explain myself.

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.
No not at all,but also I dont really care about that.I think this come with age.

It will come from the school of hard knocks, actually.

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What a sad comment.

What else do we have to base opinions on if not your posts?

It is sad however it is very true.

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Honey,I was never fired from a job,actually when I entered nursing school and was planning to quit my boss literally begged me to stay.

Believe what you want and I dont even no why I bother to explain myself.

ktwlpn is saying that because of the attitude and lack of accountability you display here in your posts, none of us will be surprised if in a few months you start posting threads saying you were unfairly fired or that the experienced nurses you work with are eating their young. Nursing is far different from retail. We are trying to prepare you for what it's going to be like when you start working as a nurse because it seems as though you don't have a clue.

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No not at all,but also I dont really care about that.I think this come with age.

Actually, this shows immaturity.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.
No not at all,but also I dont really care about that.I think this come with age.

Like April said, it shows great immaturity. If you don't care about the relationships you have with people, then you are going to see that many people are going to be alienated by you and your attitude. Personally, I care about the relationship that I have with people. I want my co-workers to know that I care about them and that I want them to have a good shift.

If you think that you are going to make it through your first nursing job with your current attitude, I'm going to tell you that you will not last long. You will not have friends at work because people will be do everything they can to avoid having to deal with you. That's how it is, sad to say. If you keep it up with your present attitude, I won't be a bit surprised when you start posting threads about "all the mean older nurses were eating their young"....nope won't be surprised.

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Not reading all the other posts, sorry, but I actually think someone that is new along with their preceptor should have the patients with the most opportunity for learning yet less in number. That may mean the "hardest" patients on the floor yet less of them to allow time for questions and learning for the preceptor and the orientee gradually working into a typical schedule before the end of preceptorship with the understanding that there are others to go to for future questions.

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Specializes in ICU,CCU,CVICU,SICU.
hold up, swole up... if we want to be fair, why not have any pay differentials between new grads and seasoned nurses?

well ****, give me the hardest patients so i can get a good learning experience & at the same time start me off with a seasoned nurse's base pay, etc...

if i knew for a fact that i wouldn't place someone's health at risk & my licensed at jeopardy, i'd welcome it...

all is fair in love and war

i really don't understand why you guys and gals have this reactive, hostile attitude! this is not war, neither is it love obviously!!!!(if it is, please do not love me! ever!)

is it because you were treated like "crap" when you were new grads ? so now, it's your turn to mistreat them?

geezzzzz!!!! with this kind of attitude, no wonder so many new and experienced nurses got the hell out of nursing!

so catty!

would you please be kind!? it is scary to begin a new career- especially when people's safety and health depend on your (novice) skills! have you forgotten?

there really are times when i am ashamed of being a nurse! :banghead:

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Specializes in PACU, ED.

When I was with a preceptor they flogged me with a variety of patients but mainly I got all the unstable ones; vented, room temperature BPs, drips, chest tubes, etc. On more than one occasion I had to hand off a simple lap chole so I could admit a craniotomy or vented bowel resection. It kept me busy and learning, with the safety net of a preceptor. Once I was on my own I got the same mix of patients as other nurses on the unit but I felt confident when I got unstable patients because of the precepting. It was a great way to learn but I was very ready to get on my own so someone else could recover an ICU pt for a change.

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i really don't understand why you guys and gals have this reactive, hostile attitude! this is not war, neither is it love obviously!!!!(if it is, please do not love me! ever!)

is it because you were treated like "crap" when you were new grads ? so now, it's your turn to mistreat them?

geezzzzz!!!! with this kind of attitude, no wonder so many new and experienced nurses got the hell out of nursing!

so catty!

would you please be kind!? it is scary to begin a new career- especially when people's safety and health depend on your (novice) skills! have you forgotten?

there really are times when i am ashamed of being a nurse! :banghead:

belfegor,

the original poster had started multiple threads with a negative attitude, and many of those ended up being closed. the reactions you are reading from posters here are stemming from the ops overall behavior that she has displayed here on allnurses. no, we aren't all mean, hostile, nurses that eat our young and i'm sorry that it looks that way from reading this one thread. we are quite the opposite actually and if you had been following the threads that led up to this one, you'd be able to see that.

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