nursing behavior

[oldiegoldie]

I am an old nurse. I have been nursing for 32 years and I have done it all....critical care, telemetry, ER, pain management, psych......so I got fed up with the telemetry unit I was working on (telemetry is it's own little hell) and wanted something totally different. I went to rehab nursing.

I love rehab nursing. It's phenomenal how much better patients get from one day to the next. It's inspiring and gratifying.

My problem? The PT's and OT's are wonderful, dedicated, caring and involved. They support each other and work together. The nurses, on the other hand, look like pit vipers. They talk about how they want this one or that one to get fired for being "no good" and they tell me, while I am in orientation, that I would get fired for doing this or that. They tell me this in front of the patient. I have my ACLS, I know my cardiology, I know my ER stuff, I know about psych issues.....why on earth did this woman tell me that I could get fired for doing whatever in front of a patient? And this was the best the unit had to orient me?

At the end of the day this woman told me that I just needed to develop a thick skin. No, I don't. She just needs to think before she opens her mouth.

What is it about nurses that the most negative, unprofessional people seem to be drawn to it? I am so over it all....I'm a really laid back person who knows how to function in a code, who knows how to deal with agitated psych patients, who knows about meds....maybe I really don't fit into this scenario after all. I am going to have a talk with the director tomorrow. I love nursing, buy I hate the ********.