I am a new nurse in a LTC facility. Now I'm no spring chicken, this is my second career and about my 10th job, I'm "older". Anyway, I have trained and oriented with excellent nurses, and I'm so grateful to them for their patience and professionalism.
However, being short-staffed is a daily occurrence and we almost always have "agency" nurses on the floor. One day the agency nurse was assigned to "baby-sit" me on the med cart. She was very impatient, took a lot of scary shortcuts, rushed through, skipped things she deemed unimportant like vitamins and iron pills. Worst of all she expected me to chart for insulin's she gave, when I found out she had not given two of them!! I said "I'm not charting for something I didn't give" and she got soooo angry! Called me little miss know it all in front of the charge nurse! And "must be nice to be so smart when you've been a nurse for all of one month, you need to learn the real world isn't like the books".
I know that. I know real world is never like school, but come on, something as basic as doing your own documentation? I'm sorry, but some things I'm not going to compromise. I'm trying to learn the RIGHT way to do things especially at first!
Will I become unpopular because of this? Not that I care about popularity in the high school way, but you know, will people start to talk behind my back and not want to work with me? Did I do the right thing or do I try and fit in? If doing things wrong is what experience brings I am worried about my future...don't want to alienate my co-workers.
Now I'm no spring chicken, this is my second career and about my 10th job, I'm "older". Anyway, I have trained and oriented with excellent nurses, and I'm so grateful to them for their patience and professionalism.
I said "I'm not charting for something I didn't give" and she got soooo angry! 
Called me little miss know it all in front of the charge nurse! And "must be nice to be so smart when you've been a nurse for all of one month, you need to learn the real world isn't like the books". 