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Why is it every time I sign on to this site I read how people are being treated wrong at work???? Are you young? Is it the first job you have had? Do you not know how to work with a team of different people? For all you people whining about not fitting in...figure it out its not thier problem it yours

Specializes in Acute Care/ LTC.

LOL...you guys responding are halarious!!!! I love this site..hehehehehe

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Why is it every time I sign on to this site I read how people are being treated wrong at work???? Are you young? Is it the first job you have had? Do you not know how to work with a team of different people? For all you people whining about not fitting in...figure it out its not thier problem it yours

I started a similar thread not too long ago. It also seems like people whine about how RNs don't make enough money. I don't have any research to support this but I think it's the younger nurses who post this. After watching Cribs and Sweet 16 they think everyone makes 100 grand a year and when you turn 16 your parents spend $60,000 on your birthday. RNs make very good money and you can always increase your income x2 by working another job.

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Specializes in LTC, Acute Care.

Can I complain that my header just changed my age from 29 to 30? :)

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I started a similar thread not too long ago. It also seems like people whine about how RNs don't make enough money. I don't have any research to support this but I think it's the younger nurses who post this. After watching Cribs and Sweet 16 they think everyone makes 100 grand a year and when you turn 16 your parents spend $60,000 on your birthday. RNs make very good money and you can always increase your income x2 by working another job.

hmmm maybe a charge nurse does.

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Specializes in Operating Room Nursing.
Why is it every time I sign on to this site I read how people are being treated wrong at work???? Are you young? Is it the first job you have had? Do you not know how to work with a team of different people? For all you people whining about not fitting in...figure it out its not thier problem it yours
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Ok I'll bite. :D

The reason I come here to discuss and yes even 'whinge' about issues is because my partner is sick of hearing them, does not work in healthcare and does not have the understanding of what I go through like others here on this site do. IMHO it is much healthier to bring these issues here on allnurses than it is to talk about it in the tea room at work and possibly risk making morale at work even worse.

A few months ago I was so burned out and ready to leave the profession. Allnurses helped so much because I realised that I'm not alone in this.

Nursing can be so much better. But we need to change from within before we can expect better conditions. That means looking out for our fellow workers, not backstabbing or gossiping, eating our young, and learning how to be assertive and not aggressive. We need to clean up the mess in our own house so we can be seen as true professionals.

P.S And some people here are young and they may be in their first job. Why is this such a problem? Is being young and inexperienced a crime or something? I think it's great that young people come here and ask for advice from experienced nurses.

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Dude! Who peed in your Cheerios?

Sorry! That was me... I couldn't find the bathroom and my nurse wandered off somewhere :(

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Really!! I mean, when you can't get a dad-blamed nurse to come and answer your callbell, sometimes all you can do is grab that dang bowl of cereal from this morning that's still sitting on your overhead table and.....

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Picking on/commenting about other members isn't encouraged. I humbly request we stick to the topic of the thread, please!

DanEMT,

You sound a little frustrated - perhaps by the many whine/complaint threads on the forum. I take umbrage with your opinion that those who post such threads are automatically:

(a) Young

(b) Experiencing their first job

© Have more to blame of themselves than others.

Such is not always the case. Nurses as old as salt express frustration just as new nurses do. People joining the nursing profession as their third or fourth career express frustrations just as the one who just graduated from nursing school.

And finally, while the "fault" might lie with the new nurses - it helps nobody by castigating them in such manner.

We're here to support each other, not tear each other down.

My :twocents:

cheers,

A relatively new nurse

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I I don't have any research to support this but

-Kanzi

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

"Dude! Who peed in your Cheerios?"

:yeah:

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Specializes in Acute Care.
I started a similar thread not too long ago. It also seems like people whine about how RNs don't make enough money. I don't have any research to support this but I think it's the younger nurses who post this. After watching Cribs and Sweet 16 they think everyone makes 100 grand a year and when you turn 16 your parents spend $60,000 on your birthday. RNs make very good money and you can always increase your income x2 by working another job.

Yea, thanks.

I'm 24, been a nurse ~2 yrs and understand this is not how real life is.

(Also, I am a newer nurse... young.. and I am WAY too old to be watching 'sweet 16' and whatever junk is on MTV these days)

hmmm maybe a charge nurse does.

and I've been a charge nurse and would like to know where my other $50k went, if you think this is the case.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.
Why is it every time I sign on to this site I read how people are being treated wrong at work???? Are you young? Is it the first job you have had? Do you not know how to work with a team of different people? For all you people whining about not fitting in...figure it out its not thier problem it yours

Thanks for the feedback. I think in some instances, the problem probably does lie primarily with the person posting the complaint. However, I don't think this is the case in every instance. Healthcare in the U.S. is run on the business model, and nursing as a profession is not conducive to that, so conflict is naturally going to occur. Nurses are asked to fulfill many roles within the master role of "nurse", and this often creates an incredible level of role strain. Personality conflicts on the job, while present in every occupation, is intensified in nursing due to the intense nature and heavy demands that providing nursing care in a business environment places upon individual nurses and nursing professionals as a body. The complaints that you see here are a reflection of that conflict.:twocents:

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