OMG - I am a new nurse. I started LTC beginning of November. I am a fast learner - I can do my med pass and chart with a few minutes to spare some shifts.
But the day shift I get report from (always running late with report) and night shift I report off too - soooo rude and always complaining no matter how PERFECT I try to leave the cart. But she doesn't say it to me - just makes snippy comments and then it gets back to me via someone else.
Ugh it drives me crazy! After 8hrs of being super (efficient, smiling, supportive) - I don't have time or energy. PLEASE give me something I can do in situations like this because my tolerance is thinning and she should no better because she's been a nurse forever and 2 days!
Hey Sunshyne tell the nurses to kiss off. Fortunately I am a guy in nursing and female nurses never give me a hard time. I guess I just have that look. Besides if they did give me a hard time I'd ream them like I own them. I've been in this business far too long for nonsense on the job and I do not tolerate it. If you do your job well and have no issues with management, as a nurse you are on the same level as any other nurse you relieve or any who relieve you so tell them to save their ******** for someone else. And the fact that you are a new nurse does not give other more experienced nurses the right to give you crap. So tell them to kiss off too.
Some of these comments are so very encouraging for us new LTC nurses, haha.
I start next Thursday, and already I had a minor hiccup. I work with a gal at my current job (the job I worked while going through nursing school), and her Mother is a CNA at the LTC facility I got hired onto. Well, I told the daughter that I went to an interview to a hospital for a Psych Nurse position, and she told her mother, and her mother told near everyone at the facility, "Don't get too used to having this one around, he's already leaving to a hospital..."
This is happening without me even being there, I'm starting to wonder what will happen when I get there, haha. No problem though. I'm going to nip that bud straight away. I've a way to handle these types of people, and they may not like it, but they'll have no choice but to respect me for it. I don't play High School games, I'm an adult.
They are just jealous.....I was labeled SuperNurse by one of my collegues....although I wasn't bestest friends with this woman, I felt like she was just not happy that I was a good conscientious worker. I went over and beyond a lot too.....If you KNOW your patients, if you do your rounds, follow up on everything, do all meds/treatments. charting....etc KUDOS to you!!!....you are a great organizer and get the job done.
Don't be discouraged...its lonely at the top I know.
unfortunately, no one wants to be a subordinate anymore...or low man on the totem pole.....WE all strive for the top...but no matter what you do and who you work for...there will always be a boss....always......and we all know who the TOP BOSS iS.....God,
Specializes in M/S, LTC, Corrections, PDN & drug rehab.
I found the most drama is in LTC. Between the work load, resident's family or management it's never a good time. I've worked in many nursing homes & it's all the same. I worked in one (for a weekend) & at the interview the DON told me the demeanor of all the staff is low! Uhh, why at the interview would you tell me??? She's lucky I came back, but then left promptly after I saw what she was talking about.
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I hate LTC