Trigger Warning: This is a general venting thread. Toes may be stepped upon. Snowflakes may face warm temperatures. No one person is the target.
Please, fellow AN participants, make the following stop:
1) Referring to your particular work environment as 'busy'. They are ALL busy. We get it.
2) Using the word 'devastated' in regards to something that does not involve death, loss of limb, or major natural disaster.
3) Talking about the PVT- I think I speak for 99% of the million or so AN members when I say this - "Patience is a virtue"
4) Doing people's homework for them when they have made no effort beyond copy and pasting to do the work themselves.
5) Asking a complex question and, upon getting a thoughtful answer from an expert who took time and energy to compose said answer, failing to thank the stranger who took time to help you.
6) Mistaking the straight truth for bullying.
7) Mistaking an answer that differs from what you want to hear for bullying.
8) Telling experienced nurses you'd NEVER want to be like them when you have no CLUE of how their experience influenced their answer.
"ICU/ED/NICU/Flight nursing are the most coolest/beatest/glamorous nursing specialities ... whyyyy would anyone want to do med surg/psych/rehab/school nursing? That's not TRUE nursing."
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
Or How about: I can't get a job anywhere, I have filled out soooo many applications and I am not even getting an interview. The managers should at leasts call me to tell me why I didn't get an interview. They are so unprofessional. Oh, and I only filled out 5 or 6 applications. But they should still call me and I won't relocate because I only want to work at this particular hospital.
I saw the title of this thread and thought, "Maybe someone else besides me is going to talk about how they never want to hear the word ECLIPSE ever again!" One more question on my Facebook feed about where to buy eclipse glasses and I'm gonna go the hell off.
Now that I've actually read the thread, I'd have to agree with Wuzzie that the threads about "Should I become a nurse?" are the most puzzling. Literally no one can answer that but you. I understand wanting feedback from people in the field if you're not really that familiar with it, but at the end of the day, we don't know you, we can't tell you what to do.
I'm a new grad and it JUST occurred to me that being a nurse entails working weekends and holidays. How can I avoid this - because my family is really important to me (unlike all the rest of the unwashed masses out there in Nursingland).
"Want to be a CRNA, what is the easiest way to do it, etc..." I'm not an elitist, but I don't want a fast-track CRNA. I'd prefer someone with several years of nursing experience, thanks.
"What is the fastest NP school?" I don't know, the one that lets you print out your own diplomas? Again, doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
"I have student loans from my first career, want to be a nurse ASAP, this program costs $80K, should I do it?" NO.
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Sour Lemon
5,016 Posts
I don't understand people who need the help of strangers to make simple decisions like, "Should I work days or nights?" Which do you want to work?