soflavorableRN

Ok Jo...you just gained 50 cool points for that. lmao... I was wondering about you for a minute. You were seeming kinda suspect...lol. I've run into some serious nurses with that "I've been doing this for 7 lifetimes and here you come with your wet ink on the license" type attitudes. I'm like, "dang...don't we all have to start somewhere?" And it's so hard to stay in the profession but it always seems like when you try to go to someone who has some time vested, they want to tell you to "suck it up!". So then people quit. We are short staffed and the older get more evil and the younger get thrown in and mistakes get made because of lack of experience. I have dodged the whole "charge nurse" thing my whole 3.5 years just because when I go to my charge nurse, I need them to have been there and done that on at least a few things. Hell, what good does it do to have a charge nurse that hasn't even been in a code? Trust me, I've seen some that haven't. Scary stuff. Anyway, you're cool. Sorry I was ready to be mean to you. LOL! You seem like a firecracker like myself. Short people rule!!! lol (not sure how tall you are, but I'm under 5'0 so I have my nepolian complex to uphold)

I sure haven't done it. Maybe one day I will. As far as my 3.5 years... I learn everyday. Not sure I'll be here in 50 years just because I may not want to. But while I'm in the game I'll try to keep those that continue to join the profession feeling like they have a place. Not eating my young.

Nope...didn't miss a thing. But what I do know is what it feels like to be a new nurse and have someone that has about 800 years in the game telling you to suck it up. Patients are sicker and nursing is way different then it was even 5 years ago...so yeah... I said it. PACU is on some different stuff... I don't care what your background is. LOL!

Girl I had to sign up for this website just to post something for you. I remember when I graduated (all of 3 1/2 years ago...lol) I cried all the way through orientation. Felt sick and tired and frustrated and dumb as crap. I was a LPN and I worked on a surgical floor. I was very intimidated by all the folks walking around with "RN" on their badge. Then on top of that, I felt like nursing school didn't even touch on half the stuff I thought I needed to feel at least like I could have the right to lay my stethescope on a chest and call myself a nurse for 12 hours. But... I kept going back. I too, had a family to support. I got better and each day got a little easier. I had a bunch of different preceptors and it made it hard. Some days were good and others felt like I was starting over every time... like every day was my first day on the job. I boo hoo cried girl...all the time. At home and at work. But, I'm still in the game. I went back and got my RN in 2008 and ended up in a ER. Talk about culture shock! Whoa!!! I hated it and dragged myself through that for a while too. Then we moved and now I'm on a pulmonary stepdown unit that's kicking my butt some shifts. I'm not even sure if I want to be a nurse. Can't honestly see myself doing this for the next 30 years. But I know that I can if I needed to. Not because I'm not smart enough. Hell, just the fact that you knew to ask for the code cart to access atropine and had enough nerve to jump on in and start them chest compressions means you need to be in the game. It does get better after you aren't answering to a preceptor because it allows you to get in your groove and you get your own way of doing things. You always have help from co-workers. Whether you are social or anti-social. Doesn't matter because girl there are nurses that I call "code-junkie-hero-wannabe's" that need the glamor and praise of being involved in a code situation. So even if they all hate your guts, someone is gonna come running to a code because it's just the nature of it. lol... usually, it's all for the good of the patients but sometimes it's the die hard Florence wannabe type that come running if they think they are gonna be able to shine for something. As far as that JoPACU person. Forget all that mess... you know who you are and it's cool to vent on here. Hell, I know I be getting ****** off a lot. Besides...PACU is on some different stuff anyway...lmao:jester: Do you're thing girl! It's gonna be ok.