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.
People who are desperate to be nurses (it's been my lifelong dream) but are petrified of shots, blood, poop, various kinds of equipment, and elevators. But can I still be a nurse? I need advice ASAP! Uh... I don't think you're gonna like what I'm about to advise you.
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I need to interview an RN/LVN/unit specific nurse. They made no real attempt to find any nurse to talk to in real life & their interview paper is due in
Then there are the brand new nurses with 3 weeks of experience who think all the "old nurses" need to get out of the way and let them have it. Makes me want to go, "Here honey, you can have my CVI/Open Heart job. Been doing critical care for 38 years and I still don't have a clue what I'm doing. I know absolutely nothing about technology. I need a wheelchair to get to a code." Shuffling off to the old folks home now.
Then there are the brand new nurses with 3 weeks of experience who think all the "old nurses" need to get out of the way and let them have it. Makes me want to go, "Here honey, you can have my CVI/Open Heart job. Been doing critical care for 38 years and I still don't have a clue what I'm doing. I know absolutely nothing about technology. I need a wheelchair to get to a code." Shuffling off to the old folks home now.
Somebody told me to get another job because she wanted and deserved mine! Well, she finally got a job on the unit, passed her probationary period and promptly went on disability and hasn't been sen since!
The floor nurse doesn't want to teach me! Why are they so mean? Don't they remember they were students once to?? And I'm paying $100,001 for my education!!
Where is my clinical instructor? Well she's veeeeeery busy. My nurse needs to teach!!
I'm just annoyed by all the PVT new threads. Like I get it, they're excited, but i was a nursing student once and I knew where the post nursing student stuff - in the nursing student forums. So I find it hard for people who can't figure that out.
What combination of classes should I take?!?! Should I take a class with this professor?? At clinicals the nurses do nothing except for sit at their desk charting.
Or my personal favorites:
The cry for nurses to have well oiled hair and form fitting scrubs.
Nurses actually fetch water for their patients?! I am not a waitress!!
How do I skip bedside nursing because doctors are the ones doing all the work and I want to be a NP and not a lowly nurse.
Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.
What combination of classes should I take?!?! Should I take a class with this professor?? At clinicals the nurses do nothing except for sit at their desk charting.
Or my personal favorites:
The cry for nurses to have well oiled hair and form fitting scrubs.
Nurses actually fetch water for their patients?! I am not a waitress!!
How do I skip bedside nursing because doctors are the ones doing all the work and I want to be a NP and not a lowly nurse.
The flashbacks, the flashbacks. Don't forget the shoes and tasteful makeup!
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People who are desperate to be nurses (it's been my lifelong dream) but are petrified of shots, blood, poop, various kinds of equipment, and elevators. But can I still be a nurse? I need advice ASAP! Uh... I don't think you're gonna like what I'm about to advise you.