Just started new snf job and was placed on the floor after 4 shifts of orientation.
1st night had about 25 patients, I was running literally running all night to give pain pills, help answer call lights, and give morn meds and did not finish on time so supervisor was upset and said I cannot be doing overtime then DON approached me as well.
2nd night by myself was supervisor and again walking fast all noc trying to finish everything I had to do them then I was reemed by am supervisor (which the staff developer was present at that time and agreed with her) because I completed the CNA staff assignment wrong and she had to fix it, also forgot to update some forms that upset the nursing staff and I could tell they were complaining about me in their language to the supervisor.
I stayed quiet and gave report, stayed late again and felt horrible and stupid all the way home.
Ive been off and start again tomm and having a lot of anxiety. Husband is upset because he says if I cared about us getting back on our feet financially I would not let it bother me and stick out.
The place is 90% of a certain culture and whenever I smile and introduce myslef to my coworkers they just look the other way or when I ask for help or ask where could I find something they say "I dont know" or "go look over there", and these nurses have been there for years so I know they just dont want to help me,maybe because I am from a different culture.
The other small percentage of my coworkers also not of the majority culture are very helpful and always seem to be nice and available.
I have been a nurse for years but am new grad RN and in the past I have been in a leadership position where I also had to train new employees and I never treated them like this.
If I saw they were putting the effort to learn and do their job I helped them in any way I could or just reminded them in a calm manner if they forgot to do something.
So it is a little hard to understand why people treat each other like this especially when this company and their managers go on about wanting their employees to stay but like the SD that witnessed how the am supervisor treated me and agreed how she handled the situation.
I feel that if this treatment from the am supervisor continues I have to take it because she has been there for 30 some years and no one will do anything about it since I am new and a new grad.
I apologize for the ongoing rant, I am sure many nurses out there with lots of experience have gone through this and probably worse and didn't complain. But it helps me to talk about here.
