Generation Z

They tend to be less worried about their backs and still think hemorrhoids are a laughing matter.

5 minutes ago, OldDude said:

Yea...no one can work, drive, sleep, or eat, without ear buds.

Sounds like me. I guess I'm just young at heart.

Then again, I was the start of the "Walkman" generation.

Probably has always been that way, at least to some extent.

My Gen Z child has extreme difficulty talking on the phone (as opposed to texting, Snap Chatting or Insta-ing). Up front of people though, she is very able to state opinions, and is receptive to other's opinions. She and her friends are nihilistic AF (as they say)...but they have lived with 9/11 and more school shootings than I can count, which would be enough to change one's mindset in a hurry. Us Gen-Xers were latchkey kids but we had a reasonable expection of safety at school. Don't get me started on the 24/7/365 electronic media and instant gratification.

Gen Z and milennials are technology natives, as opposed to my tech immigrant self and my mom, who can't figure out how to text.

We're all a little different.

I’m 25 so don’t quite know where I fit in this question. I definitely don’t fit the millennial stereotype.

I have notice a big difference between myself and those that are 21, who went straight to nursing school out of high school and have barely any life experience and haven’t had a job before nursing though. Often are less helpful, first to leave after shift, but tend to be less stress out.

For my self, whose somewhere in the middle of both group, probably technology. I do have my phone on me all the time, not so much personal use but I have apps to look up different medication, terms, conditions I use a lot when I come across something new. Find older nurses still using books!

Those phones ?! Heaven help them if they miss a text or a message from one of their many apps, if not read and answered within 60 seconds the world might end. It is OK if the patient is trying to get up by themselves, if the patient is bleeding or vomiting, etc. What is not OK is to not immediately look at that message every time the phone gives them a notification.

And the 'I took the trash out last night' attitude. Or 'it doesn't matter if I can't chart yet, I am not going to do one more lick of work than you are just because you have to chart on all of the patients'.

Thank goodness for the few that give me hope, regardless of their generation.

Yes! Right now hospitals are hiring new grads right out of school for positions in the ED, ICU etc... (which is scary as S#!+ to me). Back in my day people had to work their way up to get in those positions....With EXPERIENCE

People that age and younger have not seen true hard times (economic hardship) where jobs were scarce.... and people had to bust their butts to prove themselves to deserve the positions they earned.

Many young nurses I’ve seen are amazing and truly hard workers! But there’s a big portion that are entitled, spoiled, and do not know what hard work really is.