Hospital Nurses

NancyRN · Nov 17, 2002

Mario I remember as a student being told to go sit in on report. I had no idea what that meant. I can't imagine the bad impression I must have made. It seemed like a gossip session to me. I didn't know what was going on at all!

Nursing Instructors forget that they speak another language! Don't be afraid to ask lots of questions. The beauty of being older is that you don't have to pretend to know it all, unlike 20 year olds who DO know it all....

LoisJean · Nov 17, 2002

Yup, pressure, pressure, pressure. Some pressure is a very good thing because it makes some people stronger emotionally. Some pressure is good because it makes some people think before acting; and some pressure is a good thing because it can increase stamina. But the kind of thing Mario is talking about is rude, crude and not necessary. However, because it is something that happens just about all the time, just about everywhere, to just about every nursing student then words of wisdom can only come from those who have sweated through the experience and have come out the better for it. Mario, you are going to be a wonderful nurse and I hope some time to meet you.

Here's a recall: 1968; Operating Room; nursing student observing. She is scrubbed, gowned, masked and gloved. She is standing near the surgical field and doing just fine. Surgeon sez: "Aren't you the nursing student?" She sez, "Yes, Sir." He sez, "Well, I need a fallopian tube, could you go out to Central Supply and see if they have a sterile one?" (We're thinking: 'Oh, brother, here we go again with the stupid student running off to get the tube' {smirk,smirk, smirk}). She sez "Sir, I respectfully decline your request. However, if you'd like I will go out and bring you an anatomy book." She did a very good job of planting her foot right square into all of our butts that day- and nicely, too.

Peace,

Lois Jean

hoolahan, ASN, RN · Nov 17, 2002

Lois...LMAO!!! Good for her!

Mario, you have to work on the fear thing. Mean people can smell fear. They will target you from afar like an owl can see a barn mouse a mile away!

You're not supposed to know everything! You're a student. If they won't answer your questions, and you MUST ask them when you are uncertain, go to your instructor.

Man, I LOVED to have students. When you were assigned to me in ICU, you damn well learned something! I put you to work!

LoisJean · Nov 17, 2002

From me to you, Mario: :kiss

Peace,

Lois Jean

Youda · Nov 17, 2002

Lois, you hit on something that really works. HUMOR! If you can think up someway to laugh at the person's "joke" then you have disarmed their meanness.

baseline · Nov 17, 2002

LOL...I think thats how this thread started! With humor!

rebelwaclause, ASN, RN · Nov 22, 2002

originally posted by skm-nursiepooh
i too have to agree with pretzlgl
my program doesn't allow students to ask the nursing staff for any information that can be looked-up first...

^5, moe.

mario_ragucci · Nov 22, 2002

Originally posted by baseline
LOL...I think thats how this thread started! With humor!

No, it started when I was feeling very beat up inside and needed to lean on the pool of love here. Without the information we share, my life would be light years in the past, and thats far away from now. (?)

It's a clear example of how CNA's and RN's will and do kill and eat their young. I will always fawn.

I understand building the need for students to look in charts for their first time. But you don't have to do it, just tell them how to do it. they look to you for information, not lazy. Please be kind to me as a student, even if someone beat you up when you were a student. Break the vicious cycle of this cannabalism. Choose love and spare me the bravado. Dad burn it! At least giveme a break the first and second time before you start to attack and bite on me. I won't take it!

baseline · Nov 22, 2002

I was not being insensitive to you Mario....I was refering toYouda's post " Lois, you hit on something that really works. HUMOR! If you can think up someway to laugh at the person's "joke" then you have disarmed their meanness"...and my original post that suggested you needed to "lighten up" and not take things so seriously. I haven't gone back to read it...but I think my memory serves me correctly. No offense was intended Mario........

Pretzlgl · Nov 22, 2002

Mario - I also didn't mean to "beat you up" when I stated that we had to look in the charts ourselves. In fact, our instructors were the ones to ask if we had a question. I personally didn't have bad experiences when I was in nursing school. (With the nurses that is). I agree that if you are being treated poorly, then this should stop. No one deserves this. People in every profession have bad attitudes - this is true - and you are right, we need to stop the cycle. Good Luck to you, you will make a great nurse.

mario_ragucci · Nov 23, 2002

no offense was taken baseline or pretselgirl. I just ask out loud to the world "what happened to nurturing a nursing student, and being courteous? This is a serious thing to me, really. I really want to learn, and I am, and it's all positive in the end (before it gets through my forcefield and phospho-lipid membrane, lol. I don't want to suffer with a trans-cerebral ischemic attack trying to figure out and deal with someone else's depresssion.

Pretzlgl · Nov 23, 2002

You are right on there Mario - what did happen to common courtesy?? I'm glad you weren't offended by my posts. That is never my intention. Nursing school was the hardest thing I have done in my life. It surprises me that my family thought it was easy. And you certainly don't need any more pressure from outside forces when you are in school. Best of Luck to you.