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I am a new grad that started off in a post partum unit at a small community hospital (not a teaching hospital). I live in a state where it is very hard to get a job right now if you are a new nurse. I never in a million years thought I would get the opportunity to start out in a specialty area, let alone at this hospital. But I have felt a decent amount of resentment and disrespect from some of the nurses, and I don't understand why. I think I am doing pretty good, but for some reason I feel that I have been labeled as a "new grad". As if these nurses came out of the womb experienced nurses. I have been corrected for doing things the PROPER way, and they have made fun of me for doing things like re priming IV tubing instead of doing their little shortcut things like dripping IV solution all over the floor when priming or not using a syringe to suck air out of a line (a air bubble that was at least 3 feet long). I just don't understand why they are so nasty and treating me as if I am an outsider. I am not by any means at all coming across as a "know it all". I know these nurses are all really good nurses and I can really learn a lot from them, but their attitudes toward me are really making it hard for me to look up to them as role models!! Can someone please enlighten me?

I was started out at 25.26 an hour at Community Medical Center Toms River. There is a $5 shift diff that is the whole 12 hour shift. Jersey Shore starts you out at 25.27/ hour

This surplus can't last for ever. There is a pretty sizable population of "baby boomers" that will soon be retiring (of the economy allows for it). Just have to be patient. I graduated in the Spring of 2009 from Brookdale CC, and got a job doing exactly what I wanted to be doing (Post Partum) in the hospital I wanted to work at. There were 9 new grads at my orientation when I was hired. Just be patient and good luck!!