bri0209

I have a person who is a fellow nurse who has constantly repeated "I'm only an LVN". So am I! I think she is so wrong. Now she will be graduating from RN school pretty soon. It is a shame to think how she will treat others when she is done.

I am so happy you found a great place to work for. I wish you so much luck!!!.

Yes there are other options and I am now looking. I kept feeling like a failure so I did not want to give up. But truth be told I am only hurting myself by staying. I feel I should of known this by now, but now I can see this is so common to feel this way. I am so glad that I found this forum. IT has allowed me to not be so hard on myself. Thank you

oh, another thing I did not have any orientation. I was thrown in to do all the meds, It was horrible. The nurses will joke about it sometimes how I was just thrown in. I know it was just meds but for 13 patients and no aids even though it is team nursing was just as horrible. my asking questions is suppose to be orientation. No perceptor or mentor. Just do it, keep up!!! The only good thing I lost 20 pounds the first 2 months.

wow I thought I was the only one feeling like this. I have been a nurse for about 5 months and many a times I wanted to quit. The very first day I started I was greeted with such negativity and anger. The nurses wanted someone experienced to work with them and I was very told so clearly of it. I did cry alone what kind of place was this? What was I thinking!!! But I stayed, I am not a quitter. My DON thinks they are helping me, and sometimes they do, but it is always talked about in report how I did not know this or I did this wrong and quite frankly I feel belittled by this. My hospital is a small hospital and we practice team nursing. I do not think this is working for me. I want to quit so bad for the reason I feel incompent working by these15-30 year veteran nurses. I have been recently been put in ER by the older nurses and it scares me. I feel stupid all the time. The back stabbing is horrible!!! I work the evening shift it does nothing but complain of the day shift and scheduling may I add. I started to work the day shift and the only thing the night nursed said was "I hope you can teach her something" I felt humiliated!! Maybe I should not vent so much, but we are all in it for the same reason, to help our patients get better to provide a genuine service of love and compassion to those left in our hands. Some nurses are really nice but the ones that are spiteful really do not understand what some of their actions will effect the care that someone could of recieved if only they could have given some amount of the experience that they have mastered during all their years of practicing as a nurse. They hold such a key to the future of care and do not even know or do not care that they have that gift. When did they stop caring? I will alway work with compassion even in the darkness of my own inadequacies.

I work in a very small hospital and I have been there about 5 months already. I had no orientation and most of the nurses (older ones with a minimum of 14-30 years) were not very helpful. I have been constantly nagged about why did I not know this!!! I cried alot and I was overwhelmed, but I still asked alot of questions. I do not try to attempt what I know I am unclear about. My friend got a job at a larger hospital and went through an extensive orientation. Now he is handling a large number of patients when he has to. I am so glad he had that orientation and a perceptor.