Onanon

This is my biggest complaint with nurses, I bump into it daily, thinking you are better because you have more experience. I always here about how afraid nurses are to lose their license to the point of thinking it is better to wait for some with more authority than they have. If they do not wait they are sometimes chastised for making a decision. Yeah nursing is a complex environment but you eat your own and wonder why no one wants to stick their neck out. Personally If I heard someone in managment taking the attitude that a new nurse isnt competent, my first question would be why havent you done more to build confidence in them? I know the answer; you do not know how to instill confidence. Rather be critical to annoint your position than make the profession better. Not too long ago I was being interviewed for a DON position and the administrator heading the interview said "I am well aware how lazy nurses have become over the last 10 years... I used to manage a ward with 35 patients and one tech and it worked well." My response was that she had put me in an untenable situation. I either had to suggest that the staffing level was unsafe or she was a liar. Needless to say I did not want to continue the interview. Ok I have more than made my point but in my opinion nurses are the worst at managing people.