Beatlefan

Beatlefan BSN

Cardiac, Transplant, Intermediate Care

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  1. What grinds your gears about your coworkers?

    Beatlefan replied to Nurse_Lily's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I am surrounded by these types, Emergent. Frustrating when I need to interrupt in order to get help to get something done. After my first year of nursing, I began to keep my head down, eyes averted,...

  2. What grinds your gears about your coworkers?

    Beatlefan replied to Nurse_Lily's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I became a nurse in my early 40s. I was surprised at the amount of people who come to work needing attention. I do not like loud, lazy, immature attention-seekers, which I have found in the last 8...

  3. Nursing Culture

    Beatlefan replied to arborguy's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    No idea why all that extra stuff made it into my message!

  4. Nursing Culture

    Beatlefan replied to arborguy's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    Dear arborguy, I went into nursing because I wanted to help people. Since then, I have become a very different person. I was in my 30's, had 3 children (2nd was born with Down syndrome), and I had...

  5. painful reports

    Beatlefan posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hello fellow nurses. I have been an intermediate care nurse for 7 years- work on a very busy floor. I originally pursued nursing in my early '30s after having my kids. The nurse that I knew growing...

  6. Clinical Instructor Woes

    Beatlefan replied to eyeball's topic in General Students

    I have to say that I am glad to have received some responses, too! When I tried to complain to classmates, they didn't want to hear about it-- until THEY were on the receiving end of the CI's wrath....

  7. Clinical Instructor Woes

    Beatlefan replied to eyeball's topic in General Students

    I had a similar experience with 2 consecutive clinical instructors who made it clear that they were very busy and didn't care to be bothered. Then in my 3rd semester, I had a very aggressive...

  8. Charge nuse from HECK!!!!!LONG

    Beatlefan replied to PiPhi2004's topic in First Year After Licensure

    It's unfortunate that there are people like that out there-- especially nurses. I am at the end of my 1st year of nursing in cardiac/transplant intermediate care and have had some unpleasant...