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We've got a couple of nurses who are either veterans of ER or did a short stint there. They've all come to PACU to get away from the hell that is ER. Or so they tell me. Seems believable.

Ahahahahahahahaha:yeah:

Ahaha... god, I'm trudging through postgraduate work so I can qualify for a research job.

Good Luck! I'm sure you will make it!

I'm sorry to hear of your troubles. Here in the other side of the world, things also seem quite bleak. The hospital I worked for managed to ween potentially 100+ new graduate positions down to 40. Oddly enough, the workload hasn't decreased...

The cattiness has been well documented in this profession. And I don't think I've met a nurse who hasn't been a victim of horizontal bullying at some point in time. That being said, women are not cut from the same cloth, and some quite clearly like the drama more than others. Given I'm still quite a newbie in nursing, I'll say this with a sense of humility - from what I've observed in my ward, the boys tend to learn the pecking order and ward dynamic quickly and objectively, and they find ways to approach it without going into the line of fire. And throughout university and my first few years, this has been generally achieved by the guys being calm and funny, the remedy for '*****'.

Thats really interesting, though I think I'd rather be a bartender ^_^

Assuming that the patient hasn't turned for the worst over your mistake, I agree that you should take it as a learning experience and leave it there. There's no need to lose sleep over the incident. Honestly though, let's not forget that all nurses make mistakes. I'm a new grad myself, and know the feeling all too well. But over my 8 months of employment, I have noted that one of the best ways to spot the difference between experienced staff and new grads is in the face of mistakes: new grads (generally) come into a state of panic. An experienced nurse on the other hand doesn't go into a flurry of fear and panic, but instead intervenes appropriately (or finds someone else who knows how to) without bringing any more attention to it than necessary. I wonder if that's a noted difference between new grads and experienced RN's, the difference in attention they place upon their mistakes. Perhaps discretion is a sign of experience :)

I'm a new grad... And how much am I getting paid? Less than I'm worth. Approximately $21.00 an hour. That being said, I'm at the other side of the world compared to most of you...

I know how you feel. I'm still completing my first year of nursing too. And considering I got good grades at uni and aced the board exam (we don't do NCLEX in my part of the world) I thought I could go in there guns a-blazing. So I did! I jumped in feet first (I work in a PACU, which isn't the easiest place to start). Long story short, I was called into the charge nurses office twice in my first month. And as she and my nurse educator put it so delicately "you don't know anything". So yeah, don't by shy to ask. But I still insist a new grad needs to go in blazing!!! Although that might just be me...

(only read the first page then skipped straight to the last) So... we young male nurses are jerks huh?!? Them's fightin' words ^_^ I dispute that comment about us being lazy. As far as I can see, we young guys are relatively competitive, eager to prove something (I my case, something to myself). And don't mistake our need to 'have a good time' as being "cocky and overconfident" (real adjectives one of my charge nurses shot at me during training). We're just trying to do what we do... babe

Currently that's the system we are using in my PACU. As far as I've seen, a 10-hour-shift system works well, as the shifts generally override one another. This bodes well for my team during the hectic times of the day when the OR's are all pushing their patients out at once. And in terms of the evening when things are slowing down, the night team in most cases send the morning staff home early (though this is solely because our charge nurse turns a blind eye to this ^_^ ). As far as I've seen, the system works.