misterniftypants

thanks a lot people. you're all right, i do have a great opportunity to learn from someone who really knows her stuff. i guess i just would rather that sometimes she would be a little more patient with me when i ask "stupid" questions. she knows nursing so well that it's hard for her to come down to my level and talk like a regular person. she'll give me a hard time about stuff that she thinks is common knowledge. there was one time when she was kidding me about how I didn't know how much ibuprofen would get rid of her headache, and another time when I didn't know what body temp was important to be concerned about (the patient was 96 degrees I thought I should worry about it). she also gave me the "well duh" response when I asked her if 10 units of blood over 12 hours was a lot of blood to have to give to a liver failure patient (i didn't know how much blood was in a unit). she still kids me a lot about the time she tried to teach me how to start an IV and I left a big bruise on her arm. i know i'm really new and i make a lot of mistakes and there's a lot i don't know. i'm okay with that, i just wish she wouldn't make me feel like such a moron for being new. i wish once in a while she would admit to me that there were a lot of things she screwed up when she was new too.

oh my god, what is with the jerks at your school?! it never fails to astound me how people can be so narrow minded. it sounds like those around you who are on the road to these $5000 a month jobs can't fathom that there are other options out there in the world. perhaps they'd have more respect for what you're about to do if they understood how much goes into being a nurse. maybe they think that nurses are glorified waitresses? i started off working towards a degree in biology and changed my mind to get a BSN in nursing. all the bio and chem people around me couldn't understand it either. isn't this site great for venting?

Are there any guys out there who are dating someone more experienced in medicine than themselves? I'm dating this girl I met when I started working as a tech in a cardiac SICU. Things are going really well between the two of us but there's this one part of our relationship that i hate. I hate that I'm a greenhorn student who is new and knows nothing about nursing and she is a seasoned nurse who has been working for about 5 years now. I know it's a totally stupid hang up, but I can't help it. I just hate it that whenever the subject of work comes up I can't talk to her as an equal. Instead I find that I have to listen passively, sort of like I'm listening to an instructor. Like I'm the young "grasshopper" who must admire the wise kung fu master. I realize that the best thing to do would be to just get over it and quit whining, but part of me just wants to whine anyway. I was just wondering if there are any other guys out there who are in a similar situation?