New grad nurse here. Mine was 3 months and of those 3, we did 5 weeks of class. I work in a metropolitan hospital and we see 3x more gunshots/traumas (at minimum) than the nearest Level 1 trauma...
Serta replied to Newgradacutern's topic in Emergency
Your charge nurse is acting way out of pocket... NO ER nurse I have talked to with any substantial years of experience would react like this and I've seen far worse med errors. Nonetheless a few...
I too am a new nurse (though much newer than you haha) and only been working in the ED for 3.5/4 months. However, my hospital had us in an orientation program in which we had to show up and work...