One Of The Saddest Things I've Seen... Can't Stop Laughing

dreamprincess89 · Jun 8, 2011

I am a nursing student, and recently my mom was hospitalized with pneumonia. She is fine now, but she spent several days in the ICU. One of the days I was with her I noticed her young nurse with 2 nursing students from different schools following her, and later in the day she had an EMT student also following her. It was like a parade. Not to mention that the nurse was terrible! In ICU I pressed the call button because O2 sat alarms had been going on nearly 15 minutes with no response, followed by 15-20 minutes with no response to the call light. I had to find another nurse to come turn up my mom's oxygen level. I'd like to sympathize with the fact that she was training, but it was the ICU and that is inexcusable.

LongislandRN23 · Jun 8, 2011

What I find funny is the lack of help and guidance that can be given to these new grads. Apparently all you can do is laugh instead of being productive? I'm not saying to hold their hand, but speak up and give some quick pointers when they arise. That is more productive than "laughing".

wooh, BSN, RN · Jun 8, 2011

Jobs are scarce, and hospitals are taking full advantage. This is a crap situation, which the OP didn't cause, isn't responsible for, and has NO BLAME for.

Hospitals get away with crap like this because instead of getting behind our fellow nurses that have to put up with it, we blame them.

How dare the OP vent about a crappy situation!! She should be running to management, demanding they hire someone with experience, who would of course come to work for the paltry pay the facility is willing to pay. And hey OP, while you're at it, perhaps you could lower gas prices and bring our troops home.

At my work, we had all these nursing students that are being precepted by us instead of having an instructor. Well, have to have a BSN. So these two new grads (one who's kind of dumb too) were teaching the nurses of tomorrow. While our charge nurse, brilliant with ~30 years of experience, isn't qualified.

Made me laugh. Made me laugh a lot. And no, I didn't volunteer to take a student. Because I didn't want to. (I have other reasons, which I've made clear to my management team.) So OP, I'm destroying the world with my laughter along with you.

All you perfect nurses, feel free throw stones my way too.

Florence NightinFAIL, BSN, RN · Jun 8, 2011

Wow, does anyone need help in removing the stick up your ***? It must really be uncomfortable. It's obviously not funny.

To the OP: I know what you mean. It's terrifying. I survived my orientation and I try to get close to the senior nurses in my unit so that I could at least learn something.

MarkonCRT · Jun 8, 2011

Are you kidding me? The failure of the critics to realize that the OP is making a comment with regard to the state of patient care priorities shows a lack of ability to use a vital component of nursing. That being critical thinking. If you can't see that she was making an observation on the state of nursing in general, I really question your general understanding of any situation. I think it was perceptive on her part as a new grad to see clearly what most seem to ignore.

RyanCarolinaBoy, ADN, BSN, MSN · Jun 8, 2011

My goodness...

What is up with all of these friggen "Self Rightous" attitudes? For real? The OP was not intending this as a haha it's funny, but as a haha i'm frustrated and i'm going to laugh instead of cry.

To all of the self rightous nurses that have posted such idiotic responces, take a step back and look at yourself. To often, someone comes to Allnurses to vent and is taken to task for it.

To be honest, i would have laughed too. You can't fix the problem, and why would I waste my time stepping into a hot mess like that? I'm at my job to do MY job, and to keep MY patients safe. No offence, but i'm not responsible for anyone elses nursing license, and i'm not going to stress myself out for managements inept decisions.

And at the end of the day, I leave my job at the door and go home. We're nurses, for God's sake, not super humans.

Jeez...loosen up people!

mama_d, BSN, RN · Jun 8, 2011

What's even sadder is on my floor we have a new grad (who does rock it, she's great) who gets put in charge sometimes b/c she's better than the other RNs working those shifts...who have had their licenses for at least three years. I just don't understand why it's so hard to get incompetent stff moved into a more suitable position.

Katie5 · Jun 8, 2011

Are you kidding me? The failure of the critics to realize that the OP is making a comment with regard to the state of patient care priorities shows a lack of ability to use a vital component of nursing. That being critical thinking. If you can't see that she was making an observation on the state of nursing in general, I really question your general understanding of any situation. I think it was perceptive on her part as a new grad to see clearly what most seem to ignore.

With all due respect, this post is dumb. Are you that gullible(for want of a better word) to believe that these "critics" do not understand sarcasm when it is right in their(our) faces.

Venting we understand and the OP, has every right to vent, except that her post reeks of something malicious. Imagine the new grad's feelings if she voiced her disbelief in the way she did here.

Sometimes, it's not just the words but the way(tone/manner) in which it is said.

Perceptive? Critical Thinking? I fear, yours is lacking, since you failed to discern properly.

Katie5 · Jun 8, 2011

How about letting the OP vent a little..... sigh.... without 'high moral grounders' taking over the thread...

Venting I'd understand. This isn't a venting- this is a tearing down.

"Oh did you see what she did?Well I'm not going to concern myself. I'm just going to twiddle on my very own way." Tra la.:)

Talk to me, where do you get off calling people, "high moral grounders"? In life it works this way, you see something you know is right and yo stand for it. Sometimes things are not a definite black or white, but it does a world of good, when you know something to be right and stand for it.

If that is considered to be a "high moral grounder", then you know what, no backing from it? At some point in life, you've just got to find your truth and stand for it. It's the ones without a stand that bear watching- they jump ship in times of unrest.

Chin up · Jun 8, 2011

Ok guys. Let me clarify something because I thought you guys are intelligent to realize that I'm being sarcastic and it's not funny. It's plain and simply scary! (Come on think about it?). The reason I took this approach is because I've got no more tears left. I've spent a year wondering when I'm going to loose my license. Rather than cry or scream about it, I just choose to laugh. I mean this can't be right. It must be a joke. I've gone from the bottom to the top of the administration crying to them that we are not safe! But yet, when I come back to work the next day, it's the same traumatizing situation over and over and over again. Don't you think that I'm shock and outraged by this? I know it's not funny. So please don't take it the wrong way people. Patients lives here are at stake because one simple mistake can cause serious harm.

It was obvious to me you were being sarcastic, hence my reply. I think folks here sometimes forget to get out of the freakin box. If people think about it, the funniest things are true. And you wrote it in such a way, which made me crack up by the way, that the sarcasm was dripping and oozing. Anyway people if you didn't see it...I feel bad for you. Lighten up. Life is to darn short. Peace!

NB She Went Out of Her Way to Show it was SARCASM!!!

Chin up · Jun 8, 2011

How about letting the OP vent a little..... sigh.... without 'high moral grounders' taking over the thread...

A little sanity finally. Thank You. I knew this was going to get some lynching, but I had no idea there were so many Pious Nurses on the site. Unfreakinbelievable. Thanks again. Peace!

Chin up · Jun 8, 2011

Welcome to allnurses.

Post of the year!