I am coming back to this forum, after being away for many years, to communicate this message to you:
Are you kidding me? Why is this profession on "blast" everywhere? Every Instagram post has some covid/nursing/hero quote within it. Nurses are now dancing all over tik tok? Do you think this is cool? Do you think this is what professionalism is about? It is to the point where I am almost ashamed of being a nurse; our traditional nurse leaders are rolling over in their graves. Have humility, stop talking bad / complaining about how awful your jobs are. You came into this profession, probably for the $ and cause every other post on facebook influenced you. This is all part of the agenda: flood hospitals with nurses to drive down wages, make working conditions worse, and pay less. Basic supply/demand strategy used by all corporations to make their workers replaceable). There are plenty of good nurses out there, I am sure. I am just disgusted by the profession's turn: Nurses are shaking all their goods for social media; nurses have no respect for their patients and do nothing but talk chit. I am nothing like most of you, I am ashamed of you, have some respect. Be humble, stop fishing for attention on social media.
Big LOL. The Millenials have been so brainwashed as to their own specialness, and to never, never, never question the wisdom of bureaucratic overseers.
IDK, considering how it's kinda a millennial thing to make dark jokes about how bad our self esteem is/having imposter syndrome, talk openly about seeing a therapist, and see our standard of living decline compared to previous generations, I don't think millennials have a generational sense of specialness.
But I also think people forget how old millennials can be and a lot of the "oh millennials" complaints are really just about 20-somethings, who always rub the rest of us the wrong way. I turn 40 on Friday and I'm a millennial. I had my first mammogram ffs.
Nah, Im a millennial and I don't consider myself special. Never have. I was born in 86 so I align more with gen x than I do the later millennials. Im always questioning decisions made by the overseers LOL.
You're the same age as my husband, who is also more aligned with Gen X (me) than other Millennials.
Rolie, I'm a proud "boomer" who has held a master's in nursing education for nearly 40 of the 42 years I've been working. Diploma? Never had one. Went straight for a BSN when there weren't twelve different routes to get there. There's no reason to denigrate those who came before you. We paved the way for you.
Sevensonnets- have you seen the boomer posts on this thread or did you just read mine and decide to take it personally? If you received your MSN 40 years ago then you know most of your boomer colleagues had diplomas- this is a fact and not denigration. Plenty of posts on here about how millennials came into the work place and refused assignments, etc. this is absolutely related to what is now taught in nursing school. If you actually read some of the posts I was responding to you would understand why I’m flummoxed by boomers- your post no exception...such hypocrites to play victim in a smear thread...while you try to slyly denigrate the “12 paths to a BSN” as if yours was the better one. I have an MSN and did traditional brick and mortar at a state school, I also work in nursing education and the multiple paths to get there are equivalent in merit to the traditional path.
Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).
When we talk about different Generations we forget there is a generation between the Baby Boom And Gen X It's called generation Jones. The key charactaristics assigned to members are pessimism, distrust of government, and general cynicism.
BTW I am a proud Boomer born in the last official year of the BB and I had to work hard to get where I am and what I have.
When we talk about different Generations we forget there is a generation between the Baby Boom And Gen X It's called generation Jones. The key charactaristics assigned to members are pessimism, distrust of government, and general cynicism.
BTW I am a proud Boomer born in the last official year of the BB and I had to work hard to get where I am and what I have.
Hppy
Interesting, I've not heard that. I'm too late for a boomer but too soon for Gen X though I "identify" as Gen X. I'm an optimist who is super cynical due to life's lessons ?
Funny story: in December I was walking to my vehicle after my shift, mask off. My fellow baby boomer coworker was driving away, and she lowered the window of her car.
I mentioned that I was glad to see that a certain agency nurse of the millennial generation had her last day there. She was an impertinent, disrespectful, arrogant young woman who didn't know what she didn't know, as a fairly new nurse.
We proceeded to have a lengthy conversation about our exasperation with the younger generation. 2 days later I got a call at home informing me that I had been exposed to covid, my colleague had tested positive after feeling sick the next day.
I went on a 14-day quarantine, and never tested positive. My coworker did fine and we had some good laughs over the fact that we only had the Millennials to blame.??
When we talk about different Generations we forget there is a generation between the Baby Boom And Gen X It's called generation Jones. The key charactaristics assigned to members are pessimism, distrust of government, and general cynicism.
BTW I am a proud Boomer born in the last official year of the BB and I had to work hard to get where I am and what I have.
Hppy
Interesting- never heard of it before. It's where I fall; now I know why I never felt aligned with the classic "Boomers"...
we need to judge, they are killing our profession. We are in the situation we are in today,with the world, because we let idiots do stuff for to long without saying anything. You don't believe me that our profession is in dire danger:
I've done my part by warning you all. Where is HR in all of this? Where are nursing leaders?
If this is a real video, I truly think this is the minority.
I honestly know that in my hospital - the ER, ICU, and inpatient floors.....most of us were just trying to trudge from shift to shift and dealing with the stress from the chaos afterwards. I have never been so relieved to leave the ED for surgical services in the midst of covid. It’s not perfect but I don’t live in fear of patients crashing and dying on a daily basis. That’s the reality of most nursing fields. The pandemic has only amplified the broken healthcare system and the nursing turnover rates.
Are you against wearing masks? If nothing else I'm sure they have helped lower flu, cold, RSV and maybe helped at least a little with covid. I don't think they hurt anyone.
I wonder why you are taking the videos on tik tok, etc so personally. Why does it upset you so much?
Don't worry, if any of the peeps' coworkers see their videos they will turn them in to HR soon enough and discipline will follow.
But can't we live and let live, especially during this pandemic where nurses are working on the front line, many without adequate PPE during the past year! Hundreds of healthcare workers have died taking care of covid patients without adequate PPE!
Are these tik tok videos really so important. I don't see how complaining about these "unprofessional" nurses here on allnurses will change anything. Even if you could speak directly to the nurses on tik tok I doubt they would listen to you.
All true. I guess I don’t know about the crying videos because I don’t have the time to look at them....that’s a lot of work to look up things like that on the internet.
HiddencatBSN, BSN
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IDK, considering how it's kinda a millennial thing to make dark jokes about how bad our self esteem is/having imposter syndrome, talk openly about seeing a therapist, and see our standard of living decline compared to previous generations, I don't think millennials have a generational sense of specialness.
But I also think people forget how old millennials can be and a lot of the "oh millennials" complaints are really just about 20-somethings, who always rub the rest of us the wrong way. I turn 40 on Friday and I'm a millennial. I had my first mammogram ffs.