Newbie_RNA

Hi hun, Unti I read this forum and obviously listened to a few fellow students, that so many of us feel the same! Its so very sad when we have all taken years out to train as nurses and the end result is that we are either bullied, made to feel incompetent, and generally made to feel and at times be told, we are never going to make it as nurses, even though the ward manager who says that still after being my mentor for 8 weeks, has shown me nothing and not even allowed me to do one drugsround, because I am too slow! I hav to say I am very disillusioned and I havent even started my first post yet. I wish that I had never trained as a nurse and studied something else, because unfortunately I have never been treated so badly by so many people in the nursing arena. Sadly this accounts for the current training in the UK also. So all I can say to you is hang in there, and Im sure you will make it hun, although at times I have to say, Im not sure nursing really is for me anymore x

Hi, I too have just qualified and have had the most awlful past 6 months in nursing. I have to say my experience's have been thorughout my placements as a student. I have found many nurses to be less than human like towards patients and staff, especially students, and you also get the added bonus of HCA's trying to outwit you at every opportunity. Also I do agency work (for needed spondoolies) and have found many of the nursing staff can be so damn bitchy. Trust me I have also been through the mill, been bullied, lied too, lied about, and I have actually over the past few months really questioned why I am doing this. I have now just taken my first post (havent started yet) and I have opted out of the acute environment and have taken a post one step out of the hospital. I just couldnt and wouldnt let myself even go through that hellish 6 months to get my confidence and skills up to date, because in all honesty I dont think I could last 6 months, in that tye of environment. Just know that there are sooo many of us feeling the same,and just remember theres always another ward to consider should this become unbearable. Take care x