New nurse or just plain stuipd?

[stilltrying]

First I want to say we all have been new nurses, But no one can ever say I was a STUPID nurse. I am an LPN we do buddie nursing on my job. That is not a problem because we are to work together and assist if the other needs it. I work with this Nurse who has been an RN for a little over a year now. The LORD him self is my wittiness along with everybody I work with, this is the stupidest nurse I have Ever seen in my life. The only thing she can do on her own is pass medication. If the Dr. write an order she wants to know who to take it off. One of the cna came to her at about 12:45 and told her a patient had not voided all day. The first thing she says is well charge nurse what shall I do. I said what do you think RN. Her replies was well I guess we should do her vitals first. I told her to call the Dr. and see if he would give an order to st.cath after the vitals were done. First of all she says I don't know how to do that. Will you help me? of course I said yes, after I asked her if she ever tried. I told her let me know when you are ready. @ 3:15 after I thought about the fact she never came back. I went to her and asked did you call the Dr. yet. No the supv. told me to do something else. I asked what was it. She tells me write a note,I told her she should have call the Dr first. Of course she got mad. The supv did not know she needed to call the Dr. The straw that broke the camels back was this when she call the supv. and asked how what position the bed needs to be in when the patient is in it. Their are many other examples but I can't take any more:bluecry1:

[leslie :-D]

Lets face it, we have all been there, Some Nurses take a little longer. I don't know what we would do if we didn't have that one Nurse who helped us. We all have that one Nurse who took the time to not make you feel like an idiot. I will always be helpful to every Nurse.

i agree with you.

but at the same time, the new nurse must be willing to learn, rather than repeatedly saying, "you do it".

leslie

[kbettencourt]

i agree with you.

but at the same time, the new nurse must be willing to learn, rather than repeatedly saying, "you do it".

leslie

Then someone needs to be honest with this Nurse. I understand what you're saying.