Needneedle

Just as the lion goes to where the zebras are, go to Florida.

I know that we should all be nice to each other always, but the reality is that sometimes there is not time to be nice, and there is a rank structure. Yes, in an operation, the resident is more important than you. Get used to it. As a prior attorney, I was always nice to paralegals. But if we were in the middle of a trial and my pen stops working, I am taking my paralegal's pen. I am the attorney with the law license, and the paralegal is not. I am the one who will be asking questions of witnesses, not the paralegal. While I would be civil about it, I would not stop or delay whatever needed to be done in order to explain things to the paralegal in the middle of a trial. I suggest that you go to the resident after an operation, and try to find out or learn whatever you missed during the procedure, and all you can say is that you didn't hear the resident at times. If the resident is decent, he will speak louder the next time, if he is a jerk he won't, but you can not stop people from being jerks. You can also ask the resident why the resident moved you around, but ask it in the sense of wanting to improve yourself for next time, not as Hey, you touched me! From what it sounds, the resident was nervous and compensated for his nervousness by throwing his weight around.

I would not pursue being a NP until I had worked as a nurse for at least a year. How will you know whether you like it, or not? Many nurses drop out of nursing within 5 years, even though they had made such an effort to be a RN. It is like people who want to be a photographer and go out and buy thousands of dollars of equipment before they take their first picture. The job side of any career is very different from the schoool side, and see if you like nursing before you invest years and thousands of dollars pursuing advanced degrees.