I'm a little upset about something I read on Facebook tonight. Let me start by saying, I usually take things with a grain of salt when it comes to Facebook, but something about this has rubbed me the wrong way. This post comes from an "experienced" nurse and self-proclaimed DON. My issue is not with the care the pts loved one received, but how this nurse vented her feelings towards all new nurses.
Let's all save ourselves the aggravation and debate and agree that what happened to the patient is wrong, and does not work in a culture where Zero Harm should be the goal; however, to say "New nurses are coming out with an insufferable, know-it-all attitude, and overconfident in their skills. New nurses, you're pissing this veteran off". Wait what did just read??? Surely ALL new nurses do not fit this mold, and to assume all new nurses are this way is just wrong.
She also goes on to say "You're the reason I won't hire a nurse with less than three years in the field. I would have fired you for this, and the two nurses before you for patient negligence. I've fired people over less. I hold my nurses to my personal standard, and that bar is set high, ladies and gentlemen. Shame on this nurse. I am embarrassed to call her a member of my noble profession. "
I get it, she's upset, her family member was hurt, but to say that she won't hire new nurses and that these three nurses should be embarrassed to nurses is WRONG. She has forgotten what it is like to go to work everyday terrified that because she is a new nurse she might kill someone. WE ARE ALL HUMAN, mistakes will be made; however, we need the experienced nurses to teach, and to guide and mentor the next generation. Maybe that is what is wrong with that ICU unit is that there isn't a good training program. This is not what I want the public to think about nurses. We should be team members, build each other up, because if one of us falls we all should. Shame on her... I am embarrassed to call her a member of my noble profession.
Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.
I think she struck some nerves for many,hence the reaction.Painting all new nurses with the same brush on social media with such a post looks like poor impulse control to me and shows some immaturity.I get that she is upset over her lived one's condition,cut her a break.I don't think any of us can deny seeing these same issues (committed by fresh or crusty nurses)Think Shirley McClain in "Terms of Endearment".What do you do when your parent,husband child or friend is the patient and needs are not being met?And you are scared spitless
I, sorry for the details, peed in my new Banana Republic pants laughing reading the original FB post.
I'd seen so, so many of them. Here comes Her Highest Majesty The Best Nurse priding herself immensely upon her unfailing skill of having bandage scissors with her at all times, and not having the slightest idea that in ICU they are needed rarely, if ever at all. But it just doesn't fit in Her Majesty's picture of reality, so she gets out proudly bashing her ignorance for the whole world to see.
So, if I carry everything Her Highest Majesty apparently does plus tourniquet, flashes, 50 cc NS bag, IV start kit, Koban roll, ECG pads, IllumiVein, 3M sticks, pieces of WoundVac film, 8 pens, 2 lights and Micromedex running on my smartphone, does it mean that I just must be that many times better nurse, or just a born pack rat with too many pockets too big? Honestly suspect the second... am I right?
In the very depth of my heart, I pity these so-called "nurses". They are so burned out that they remind dying coals, still too hot to held but never, ever able to ignite a flame. No question, what happened with her SO was a good near miss and should be pointed out as yet another thing to watch for, but to try to clawe and tear the things off as if a human life depended on it was just about as mature and professional as throwing hysterics because of one 10 cc IV flash "not accounted for". Poor soul who is spending minutes of her only one life on thrashing others, I so hope she will never encounter any new nurse in her life. Both sides do not deserve it.
She also described the blank looks (not her exact words) she got when she complained. Those looks could also be the looks of someone listeneing intently to her complaints or those of a nurse wondering just how escalated she was.
I just loved all the awful comments on the fb post too especially the ones by the original poster. Such as the one where she states how she "LOVES" to write up and report nurses. I edited it so her name isn't showing. Hope I'm not violating the TOS by sharing the screen shot with no name.[img']https://allnurses.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20568&stc=1[/img]
edit: sorry, didn't realize my iPad didn't save the image with no profile pic and I uploaded a new screen shot without the profile pic (name was already blacked out)
yeah that post was dumb. Call me a crap ICU nurse then, because all I ever have on me is a pen and a stethoscope. Sorry I dont stuff my pockets with rolls of paper? Rolls of tape- infection control risk, 20 pens, and the all might bandage scissors. Sorry I refuse to wear a fanny pack. I am within a short distance of all of these things. The horror they are not in my pocket!
her harping on the horrible new grads is uncalled for. You get all sorts no matter your experience.
her complaint of the too tight bandage is legit, but all her points to back herself up are garbage. Take this opportunity to rant about helping to educate our new grads and use this as a shining example of how to improve. Not say all new grads are pieces of garbage and how she would never hire a new grad. ive seen plenty of incompetent "veterans" go "oh, i never noticed..."
How the heck did she get her first job? Who took a chance and hired her huh?
Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
I have 43.5 yrs experience as DON, critical care. And all points in between...
nursinpg education has changed from the seventies, when I graduated from my diploma hospital program at 11am, and reported to work at same hospital as charge nurse in CCU, on the 3-11 shift...
we have to adapt and "new nurse graduate, needs more mentoring etc... That is not the fault of "the new nurse"...it is just the paradigm shift in nursing education and clinical experience...we just need to adapt...
it it is just the way it is today, it is no longer 1972!
Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
I, sorry for the details, peed in my new Banana Republic pants laughing reading the original FB post.
I'd seen so, so many of them. Here comes Her Highest Majesty The Best Nurse priding herself immensely upon her unfailing skill of having bandage scissors with her at all times, and not having the slightest idea that in ICU they are needed rarely, if ever at all. But it just doesn't fit in Her Majesty's picture of reality, so she gets out proudly bashing her ignorance for the whole world to see.
So, if I carry everything Her Highest Majesty apparently does plus tourniquet, flashes, 50 cc NS bag, IV start kit, Koban roll, ECG pads, IllumiVein, 3M sticks, pieces of WoundVac film, 8 pens, 2 lights and Micromedex running on my smartphone, does it mean that I just must be that many times better nurse, or just a born pack rat with too many pockets too big? Honestly suspect the second... am I right?
In the very depth of my heart, I pity these so-called "nurses". They are so burned out that they remind dying coals, still too hot to held but never, ever able to ignite a flame. No question, what happened with her SO was a good near miss and should be pointed out as yet another thing to watch for, but to try to clawe and tear the things off as if a human life depended on it was just about as mature and professional as throwing hysterics because of one 10 cc IV flash "not accounted for". Poor soul who is spending minutes of her only one life on thrashing others, I so hope she will never encounter any new nurse in her life. Both sides do not deserve it.
I love over your post... I may carry "too much" stuff in my pockets......but for different reasons,....I think your post "Knicks. It out of the balk park" ....
I saw this on my facebook feed the other day. When I saw her rant I said I'm 90% sure she's a member here. She's said what many vet nurses here say but with curse words thrown in. Lol
Ruas61, BSN, RN
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This will haunt her for years to come.
Some of the nurses in acute care that have treated my DH over the past year have been less than stellar.
However, you aren't going to see me yapping on it in public in my real, traceable name.