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Oh my gosh, I'm right there with you. I've been on orientation for 6 shifts now (7a-7p) and yesterday my preceptor, gave me all of her patients except 1. I had 3 and a new admit. She is charging so she only had 5. She also wrote all of the room numbers of my patients next to her name on the assignment board like she was covering them. The nerve! :) She's foreign and has an accent nobody can understand. She's very rude to me and I've heard a patient complaining about how short she is with her. She's rude to the other nurses as well. They have the option to ignore/avoid her though. I have to try to learn as much as I can from her and make her happy so that at the end of my orientation I don't get a bad report. Not to mention the fact that I will have to continue to work with her in the future and I have to consider that kind of future tension as well. Only problem is, she isn't a caring nurturer. It seems like to me, she waits till I really mess something up and then she lets me have it, followed by a loud exasperated sigh and occasionally an eyeroll too. Sometimes she just shakes her head and walks away. Or she gets irritated with me because I'm not doing something right or not doing it at all because I don't know I'm supposed to be doing it and she'll take the chart/procedure/etc away from me and do it herself. I've started keeping a box of kleenex in the car for the ride home because it's when I do all my bawling. I'm wondering how to handle this. Ask for a different preceptor? Will that make me seem like I'm gonna be a problem child before I've even started? (not to mention the wrath I'll incur from her) I'm thinking next time I'll put my foot down and say I'm only taking 1 or 2 patients because I need to develop a routine and I can't if I'm on overload. There is another LPN who is just starting there as well and everybody talks about how slow she is and how she's driving them crazy. Poor thing had a rapid response with one of her patients the other day and then she started having crushing chest pain and she had to be admitted (but not until she finished her shift, she refused to leave and put the other nurses in a lurch - isn't that sad?). Now they are moving her over to the SNF because it will be 'easier' for her since she can't handle med surg. I don't want to be that nurse but I'm the new one and I figure I should just resign myself to the fact that they will say the same things about me I guess. Perhaps I can just stick it out till the next new nurse comes along...pretty bleak for a new job, I'm glad most of you say it gets better. I'm looking forward to that.
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