As an aid on a busy step-down floor, I am appalled at the lack of manners of many nurses and doctors. I hate the way they walk by you--in your way--and it's their fault, and you say "excuse me," and they just walk by without commenting, as if they have a divine right to exist and aids and below are just dirt that need not even be acknowledged or treated like humans with dignity.
MDs are the worst for this, but I give them a pass because I figure they're so spiritually handicapped that they can't help being that way. I don't expect much from them. I think of them as I would any psych patient. But nurses? I expect more from nurses. They should be the experts at compassion. They should be spiritually evolved enough to at least have manners.
I'm sick of being made to feel like a piece of dirt at work, because I am not. Aids, houskeepers and cooks are super, super important to patients! They are not dirt. I'll be an RN any day now (when I get my NCLEX results), so I have to overcome this now. I can't just solve this problem by escaping up into the status of an RN (see what I mean! I said escape "up." I freakin programmed!). I have to get some new software downloaded into my mind and spirit before my results come. Thank God the Post Office isn't delivering today (because I was expecting my results today). If I get my results before figuring this out, I won't think about it. I won't solve it. The problem will disappear.
