Hey, y'all. I'm hoping you wise nurses can help me out with an ongoing question I've got.
So all my life, since I was little, I've been really sensitive. I take criticism very deeply, and get (inwardly) very upset when I screw up or when others are angry with me. Everyone says, over and over, that nursing requires a thick skin. When I ask how to develop one, I get told "you just have to not let things bother you so much." Um, okay. HOW??? Is there a trick? Is there no trick, and it will come with time and it's just a "fake it till you make it" kind of thing? Maybe I just have the emotional IQ of a radish or Asperger's syndrome or something, but this advice literally does not make sense to me.
I'd love so much to transfer to the OR, but until I can stop turning red and choking when the fellow is snotty to me, I don't think I should.
Thanks for any help you can offer.