It's 6:59!!! For pity's sake!

[elizabells]

Who orders a PRBC transfusion at 0659, I ask you? Who does that?

Oh wait, the NP for my patient last night, that's who. After I'd told the fellow at 0600 that the Hct was 30. And the baby has no peripheral access. And now, at 0659, I must make at least an attempt to start one. Me, who is the most hopeless IV starter on the floor. But still, in order to avoid the wrath of day shift, I must try. Because the blood was ordered on my time. At six. Fifty. NINE.

So, what have they done to you at 06/1859?

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

Yeah, I totally stay over to finish up because I think the day shift nurse, who's been there longer than I'm alive, is incompetent to take care of my patient. Not at all because I've been berated in the past for, say, not calling report to a receiving hospital on a patient who is still on our floor when I walk out the door. Not because the younger (since someone else felt the need to make it about that) nurses on my floor are regularly left in tears during report over things left undone.

Why is it so damn impossible to have a vent thread on this board?

[leslie :-D]

Yeah, I totally stay over to finish up because I think the day shift nurse, who's been there longer than I'm alive, is incompetent to take care of my patient. Not at all because I've been berated in the past for, say, not calling report to a receiving hospital on a patient who is still on our floor when I walk out the door. Not because the younger (since someone else felt the need to make it about that) nurses on my floor are regularly left in tears during report over things left undone.

Why is it so damn impossible to have a vent thread on this board?

aw liza...:icon_hug:

i can see where you'd get upset by a post or two.

but once you grow into yourself (which comes with age and experience), these tears will miraculously form into a middle finger.

it's easy to say "grow a backbone" but i think this will come when you have reached your limit.

and we all do.

when this happens, no one will be able to bully you because you just won't give a rat's a$$ what they think.

in the meantime, stay strong and more important, stay true to yourself.

everything will fall into place.

leslie

[Diary/Dairy, RN]

Being a new nurse is a huge frustration in and of itself, let alone that you are working in an intense environment - Speaking as someone whose first year was not that long ago (compared to some) it does get easier over time and it gets easier to say - I have to get away from all this.

Sometimes though - you just have to take a deep breath and admit that some things are out of your control, like who is assigned to take care of your patients when you go home. Take a deep breath, get grounded, and try to let it go.

[Haunted]

Yeah, I totally stay over to finish up because I think the day shift nurse, who's been there longer than I'm alive, is incompetent to take care of my patient. Not at all because I've been berated in the past for, say, not calling report to a receiving hospital on a patient who is still on our floor when I walk out the door. Not because the younger (since someone else felt the need to make it about that) nurses on my floor are regularly left in tears during report over things left undone.

Why is it so damn impossible to have a vent thread on this board?

Eliza, if you allow this bullying to continue, the terrorists have won. The day shift nurses are just jealous because you are new and you most likely have everything under control. It's NICU sweety. It's their own personal nirvana. You will grow stronger and YES YOU CAN VENT HERE. Please do. Don't EVER let that deter you from expressing yourself. You are doing a wonderful job.