sassylassy

yes i do work for the largest company, FMC. They do give you extensive training, until you hi the floor, then the nursing supervisor is way to busy to train you when you have a problem. their solution is to tell you , write down your questions and they will answer them. Well sometimes you dont have the time to stop and write them down, not when you are expected to have 4 patients at a time and have them on and running at a specified time, not allowing for machine problems, catheter problems and access problems. It is dangerous for the patient to be expected to be on a tight time schedule without considering these factors.

Your lucky the LPN is only rude, I have been in Dialysis for 11 months now and like you I have had my problems learning the machines and such, my whole way of thinking as a nurse had to change. And I work with the nurse from HELL! She is so insecure in herself that she runs all the good ones off, I stayed and fought, now I am paying the piper, I have been taken off as team leader and put on the floor in a tech position. I am a strong person but I have cried many days, and wanted to quit. After being a travel nurse and a CVICU nurse for 12 years I had no idea what I was getting into. I am hanging in there and the nurse from hell is on another shift most of the time thanks tho Corporate HR. But my supervisor was not please that I went ove rher head since she did nothing to stop the harrassment. Nursing in general is tough, and as they say they eat their young, well i am older then all of them and they have broken me down too. Its a shame we all can't work together for the good of the patientds who need us so desparately. I am their for them not my co workers.