I hope you're doing very well! I've been working as a new grad nurse for over 2 months now. I feel like quitting due to toxic environment that I am in. I have had different preceptors at the hospital that I currently work at.
There is this specific preceptor that always gossips about me at the nurses station for being so slow and lacking time management. She has been teaching me how "time management" should be done, but I believe she's teaching me how to cut corners. For example, we were giving blood transfusion to the patient. In nursing school, I learned how important it is to stay with the patient for the first 15 minutes. Instead, my preceptor told me to leave the room, to complete my physical assessment on another patient and then to come back after 15 minutes to the patient's room with blood transfusing. I did not feel comfortable.
I did not follow what she told me to do. My preceptor found out and said that "nobody really dies from blood transfusion after carefully checking all important information" in her 15 years of experience as a nurse.
Yesterday, I overheard her talking about me using profanities to other nurses. She said that I was "***ing slow" and "do extra steps that do not make any sense." One of the nurses also said that the hospital should not be hiring any new grads because we "waste the company's time and money" after getting that 1 year experience on med/surg. I confronted my preceptor saying that I overheard everything she said and I do not feel comfortable. She immediately changed her behavior and tone in a professional way. She told me that it "was not a big deal".
I do not know if this is really the type of experience that new grads go through wherever we work. I would like to get your opinion on it. Thank you!
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Hi Nurse Beth,
I hope you're doing very well! I've been working as a new grad nurse for over 2 months now. I feel like quitting due to toxic environment that I am in. I have had different preceptors at the hospital that I currently work at.
There is this specific preceptor that always gossips about me at the nurses station for being so slow and lacking time management. She has been teaching me how "time management" should be done, but I believe she's teaching me how to cut corners. For example, we were giving blood transfusion to the patient. In nursing school, I learned how important it is to stay with the patient for the first 15 minutes. Instead, my preceptor told me to leave the room, to complete my physical assessment on another patient and then to come back after 15 minutes to the patient's room with blood transfusing. I did not feel comfortable.
I did not follow what she told me to do. My preceptor found out and said that "nobody really dies from blood transfusion after carefully checking all important information" in her 15 years of experience as a nurse.
Yesterday, I overheard her talking about me using profanities to other nurses. She said that I was "***ing slow" and "do extra steps that do not make any sense." One of the nurses also said that the hospital should not be hiring any new grads because we "waste the company's time and money" after getting that 1 year experience on med/surg. I confronted my preceptor saying that I overheard everything she said and I do not feel comfortable. She immediately changed her behavior and tone in a professional way. She told me that it "was not a big deal".
I do not know if this is really the type of experience that new grads go through wherever we work. I would like to get your opinion on it. Thank you!
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