So there have been many posts on the subject, and I was wondering what your thoughts were on the subject. At my job, there are a few, nurses you have to take with a grain of salt, otherwise you'll go insane. They're really hard on the new nurses that come into the door, and I was one of them. But since I've been there for some time, i start seeing myself get upset when i see things done wrong, or poorly written (we do not have computers at all and yes its 2011 i know). And I write them notes telling them i fixed what they had done and explain the correct way of doing that particular task. But after the 5th or 6th note its like COME ON!!!
Please refer to thread titled 'If I see one more post titled' and insert your question there....... but then again I could be a 12 hour shift tired lol :chair:
leaving notes for other nurses correcting them can easily be misconstrued as condescending. i suggest that you respectfully speak to coworkers directly when you have issues.
i agree. are you the 'young nurse', the 'old nurse', or are you in management? unless it is the latter, (or you are orienting/precepting a new nurse) it is not your place to be correcting your co-workers.
and fwiw, i am sooooo tired of the 'eating their young' excuse. i am not saying it doesn't happen. what i am saying is that it happens in every aspect of life. not saying it is right, and i can't stand nasty people who think they can take advantage of someone's inexperience. but it almost expected now that when a student enters school, or a graduate enters her first job, that anyone who corrects or criticizes them (construcitvely or not) is "eating" them. we've become an overly sensitive society, where no one is allowed to say anything negative to anyone. if a seasoned nurse (or an instructor, or a supervisor) has to correct, discipline or god forbid, write up a new nurse, it means "she doesn't like me".
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
I think we already have a "sticky" where this topic can be addressed, plus multiple threads in addition to the "sticky." Is it really necessary to start yet another thread about this topic. It has been done to death.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i agree. are you the 'young nurse', the 'old nurse', or are you in management? unless it is the latter, (or you are orienting/precepting a new nurse) it is not your place to be correcting your co-workers.
unless, of course, your co-worker is in immediate danger of killing her patient.
I think we already have a "sticky" where this topic can be addressed, plus multiple threads in addition to the "sticky." Is it really necessary to start yet another thread about this topic. It has been done to death.
HAHA...
The last time I mentioned this topic re eating/young...and I said something "delicate" like "please stop beating this dead horse"...and I also alluded to the fact that I thought this idiom was "ignorant"...
I think I got cyber rocks thrown at me......I had to duck and roll......
Of course, keeping in the grand tradition, of NOT checking the previous threads by using the search function..this just happened about..I dunno....maybe 2 weeks ago??? So once again, the posters epic fail....
People in general will eat the weak. All the more when the population in primarily female. It's the female part of our nursing equation that makes it all so rampant.
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
HAHA...
The last time I mentioned this topic re eating/young...and I said something "delicate" like "please stop beating this dead horse"...and I also alluded to the fact that I thought this idiom was "ignorant"...
I think I got cyber rocks thrown at me......I had to duck and roll......
Of course, keeping in the grand tradition, of NOT checking the previous threads by using the search function..this just happened about..I dunno....maybe 2 weeks ago??? So once again, the posters epic fail....
I move that the as a nursing profession we permanantly strike this disgusting-sounding-obiquitous-over-used-cliche' from our lexicon. All in favor say "buuuurrrrrp"
but then again I could be a 12 hour shift tired lol :chair:
GHGoonette, BSN, RN
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Something like this?
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