It's not always about you - a mini rant

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So, why is it that some folks here always seem to have to interject their woes into threads. Consistently, it's about them. Talking about any aspect of pt care and there's a post (often from the same "usual suspects") about their issue(s).

I won't name names but you know who you are. Or maybe not.

Mini rant over.

Just turn off the hearing aids, eh?

:heartbeat:redbeathe

Actually, I have one.

:D

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Specializes in CDI Supervisor; Formerly NICU.

Well, then, the battle is half won.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I don't see anything wrong in talking about your own personal experiences as they apply to the thread at hand. It is good to see other people's experiences and I bet many times they are things you have either experienced personally in nursing or seen happen to others. What is wrong with personalizing your reply.

I find it refreshing and also comforting as I know I'm not alone in my various struggles in nursing. I want to know others experiences to validate I'm not alone in my struggles and frustration, but also to learn of others who have succeeded in improving working conditions and what means they used to achieve this.

Frankly most people's opinions and beliefs are derived from their own real life experiences, not the sugarcoated commercials you see on TV today "Be a Nurse, you make a difference"!

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.
OK, this is what I think the OP means.

I've answered a lot of threads on this forum, and I've always brought some constructive information to the rants, even if I had to write a page and a half so you would understand where I'm coming from. Because it happened to me, and even if it has happened to you mine was so much worse, and relates more to what the OP asked. So I understand, and that stuff you wrote that was different than me. You are wrong, wrong, wrong, and I will keep pounding that into everyone's heads until you apologize (and maybe longer). It doesn't matter to me or anyone else that it was your experience. What you think doesn't even matter because I KNOW what's going on.

Hear, Hear!! Well said....

(and I am sure they were talking about you, anyway...;))

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Specializes in OB (with a history of cardiac).
so i'm in hi skewl and wondering if nurses hav 2 wrk wknds or nites? How much $$$ do u make ur 1st yr ??? My bff told me nurses have to wipe b*tts . Is this true?

How easy is it 2 date dr's ? Can someone tell me why nurses r so whiny when all they do is hand out pills?

:igtsyt:

hi well im a rn new grad and watever. Well i know i been working for 1 month and i have to work with all these mean crabby nurses!! Like serusly they r so mean and they gossip behind my back and they dont tell me what different medicinces are liek there was a iv i needed to hang and i think it was called diltizm, and they were all jerks bcuz i didn't no what it was for and they wouldnt let me hang it!!! Omg lol!!

Oh there is lots of math needed in labor delivery nursing???? I totally hate calcs and my calcs skills sux anyways lol!!

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Specializes in Emergency.

Canoehead nailed it. And Stargazer, sorry, the post wasn't about you (not sure if this is a pun).

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Not a pun, but a joke nonetheless.

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Specializes in ER.

When I was 20, I wondered what people thought about me.

When I was 30, I didn't care what people thought about me.

When I was 40, I realized they weren't thinking about me at all!

(stolen from unknown source, but have adopted as my very own) :yeah:

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When I was 20, I wondered what people thought about me.

When I was 30, I didn't care what people thought about me.

When I was 40, I realized they weren't thinking about me at all!

(stolen from unknown source, but have adopted as my very own) :yeah:

Dr. Phil quoted his father, saying, (roughly) "You wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how rarely they did."

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Dr. Phil quoted his father, saying, (roughly) "You wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you knew how rarely they did."

Actually, that's a paraphrase of Howard Roark in "The Fountainhead," which is a variation of something attributed to GB Shaw. Or maybe Oscar Wilde.

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Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
Actually, that's a paraphrase of Howard Roark in "The Fountainhead," which is a variation of something attributed to GB Shaw. Or maybe Oscar Wilde.

Whoa. I'm impressed!

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Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.
When I was 20, I wondered what people thought about me.

When I was 30, I didn't care what people thought about me.

When I was 40, I realized they weren't thinking about me at all!

(stolen from unknown source, but have adopted as my very own) :yeah:

...and now I'm in my 60's, and I wish someone WOULD think of me!

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