I am a student presently in clinics. I love nursing, my patients, and looking forward to my future.
However, what I do notice is a lot of side gossip, clicks, and major power tripper's!
Are we not adults? Are we not suppose to act like adults, I'd think more so considering
our choice of career to top it off? But, what I see is this and I'm just going to say it how
I see it, and if anyone wants to add there Opinion I'm willing to hear it.
Certain, races seem to stick together, why is that? Why do people pick on certain people when they've done
really nothing wrong, but be nice...and do there job, mind there own business and yet they feel the need to
BELITTLE...hmmmmm, that is something I'm not understanding, at all? Nor, probably never will. I've been
biting my tongue, walking away, and smiling a lot, I'm not a "fake" person and love being just me...and am
pretty much to the patients, but my Gosh, some of the nurses (lvn's) I've been dealing with are flat out rude,
trouble makers, and seem like they are not happy unless trying to get you into trouble, or at least this is what
has been happening to me.
An example: One, I was given an order by my instructor (Rn) to do vitals on 50 pt's, and they needed
to be done by 01100. A lvn ( of a different race) asked me to pump up an air mattress, which apparently had
a hole in it..I said to her POLITELY that the RN had asked me to finish vitals, and that I would grab another student
who was not doing anything to get the job done, now. I did that, pretty much instantly within 3 min. She looked at
me and said, where is your teacher? I got my teacher and my teacher told her exactly that, I was given an order to get
the vitals in by 01100, btw it was around 10:45 a.mish.
Why, on earth would you be that petty? I wanted so badly to ask her if she felt powerful doing that, and trying to get me
into trouble, but I didn't.
I am NOT a racist person! But, I am noticing this group of nurses/students all stick together..and when this wound care nurse
is doing her rounds she will ask them if they want to watch but not me? Again, I am just dumbfounded right now by how some of the nurses treat each other. I'm not even a Lpn yet, and scared to death on how to deal with such petty, childish behavior.
Suggestions?