AngRN6726

Yes you are ....and the best nursing friends ever!

Thank you, Meryln. I agree with you entirely. Maybe I made a good choice somewhere. Got 2 job offers and one potential.

I gave a very small notice and left. Noone deserves to be treated like that no matter how much they need a job.

Sad part is...I was never given a chance the minute I set foot in the door. In only 4 days off orientation and on my last day, I managed to give to take care of 28 patients, give meds, 10 blood sugar checks, help with an admission, transcribe orders, chart on all 28 residents, chart checks, help the new grad, help my supervisor, take a couple patients to the bathroom, and answer call lights. All before 7am , gave report and left on time. Of course it helped that I prayed! But all they see is a new nurse to torture!

Im done...I've had enough! Enough of the bullying, yelling, abuse, no support, blaming me for reoccurring nursing problems because I'm new, and the damn if don't damn if do attitude from nursing staff that kiss butt to the supervisors and from assistant DON's! I worked too hard and waited too long for my RN license to be treated like this and I know its partially because I am not part of their culture. I don't expect anyone to hold my hand but their should be some level of professional respect. I am not new to nursing and have worked in a few places but this is ridiculous! TIME TO MOSEY ON OUT!

GRRRRRR!!!!

OOPS! My bad you are right! I am very lucky to have my wonderful allnurses friends to talk to. What would I do with out you guys!! and thanks Meryln, I do have to remember not to be like them because I already feel that negativity seeping in, and I am not like them! I love being a nurse! I love caring about my patients and taking good care of them, not popping in for 1 minute the whole night just for pain pill and morn med! and I actually give the meds not pretend to and just sign for it like the rest of the "speedy gonzalez nurses" that always seem to finish one time. Very sad but very true.

Love that quote!! Thanks Been there, done that!

Thanks GutterCat! I like your advice very much. Im going to listen to my instincts of when its time to say bye, and Im going to do it just like MN-Nurse said saying nice working with you and thanks for the memories jackholes!! LOL love that! Both the other new girl and me got yelled at by the night super last noc for not doing the refridgerator temp checks and how we need to be faster at giving the 6 am meds and should be done by 630am for 25 patients. I think I am getting used to all this abuse cause it didn't phase me. I just said ok and went back to my charting. Like you said, its just not worth it beating myself about it, but it feels good that someone else understands like all of you here at allnurses. At least now I know I am not the crazy one....they are! Thanks again GutterCat!

Thanks CrunchRN for the support! Really need it. GutterCat I have been thing the same thing. Sure the pay is great! But man I just dont think its worth all this abuse! FutureRN_NP, thank you! It feels good to know someone else is also going through this. To update, worked last noc and back to my running running running. This time I had wonderful CNA's that helped me as much as they could. Boy did that make my night that they acutally cared. However, I ran late with meds due to sending out a pt 911. Tried really hard working fast, no break, and passin meds to 23 pts. I ended up trying to finish pass meds at 0750, which made me more behind because pts were awake or family members were there and were requesting pain pills or other PRN meds. When I told oncoming nurse what they wanted all she did was step aside from the med cart and said oh ok go ahead and give it or ok here it is take it to them. Gave report to the manager because the am nurse said she was busy passing meds and then after I gave report I got lectured that I shouldnt be staying late and that I need to work on my time management and should be finished with my meds by 0630 meds by 0630 because then I make the am nurse late with her meds. When I asked her give me a ballpark figure how long does it take a new staff member to get their routine down she said she couldnt answer that because everyone is different. ( yeah right) and this was just icing on the cake compared to the night I just had. Everyone I see stays over, the nurse who gave me report stayed 3 hours because of new admits. Everyone does it, nurses that have been there for years stay over , Oh but thats ok because they clock out and finish. I guess not ok if its me. This place is craaaazzzyyyy!!!!

Thank you both for everything you said! I have been beating myslef up and feeling so down. I dont have any nursing friends that I can talk to about this but I am sure if I did they would tell me exactly what both of you said. Your words mean so much and they made my week. I am now ready to start again tonight, do my job and go home, until it is time to look for another place to work. I will remind myself I am there for my patients and not for anyone else! THANK YOU Been there done that and MN-Nurse!! "What doesnt kill you makes you stronger!"

Just started new snf job and was placed on the floor after 4 shifts of orientation. 1st night had about 25 patients, I was running literally running all night to give pain pills, help answer call lights, and give morn meds and did not finish on time so supervisor was upset and said I cannot be doing overtime then DON approached me as well. 2nd night by myself was supervisor and again walking fast all noc trying to finish everything I had to do them then I was reemed by am supervisor (which the staff developer was present at that time and agreed with her) because I completed the CNA staff assignment wrong and she had to fix it, also forgot to update some forms that upset the nursing staff and I could tell they were complaining about me in their language to the supervisor. I stayed quiet and gave report, stayed late again and felt horrible and stupid all the way home. Ive been off and start again tomm and having a lot of anxiety. Husband is upset because he says if I cared about us getting back on our feet financially I would not let it bother me and stick out. The place is 90% of a certain culture and whenever I smile and introduce myslef to my coworkers they just look the other way or when I ask for help or ask where could I find something they say "I dont know" or "go look over there", and these nurses have been there for years so I know they just dont want to help me,maybe because I am from a different culture. The other small percentage of my coworkers also not of the majority culture are very helpful and always seem to be nice and available. I have been a nurse for years but am new grad RN and in the past I have been in a leadership position where I also had to train new employees and I never treated them like this. If I saw they were putting the effort to learn and do their job I helped them in any way I could or just reminded them in a calm manner if they forgot to do something. So it is a little hard to understand why people treat each other like this especially when this company and their managers go on about wanting their employees to stay but like the SD that witnessed how the am supervisor treated me and agreed how she handled the situation. I feel that if this treatment from the am supervisor continues I have to take it because she has been there for 30 some years and no one will do anything about it since I am new and a new grad. I apologize for the ongoing rant, I am sure many nurses out there with lots of experience have gone through this and probably worse and didn't complain. But it helps me to talk about here. Thanks for reading.

I agree with you there Anjoba, I got one day of classroom, one day orientation in the day then 3 more days of orientation for my shift 11-7, but like you the med pass doesn't really have me that worried. Its all this paperwork, so crazy! Duplicate and Triplicate charting, remembering what goes where, making the shift schedule, alert charting, computer charting...they show you soo fast and they don't have time to take the time to show you properly, will that was how my first day orientation went yesterday. And this place is SNF/LTC's but they sure are busy! busy! busy!

Thanks cityknittyRN! Yes it does help a lot. I noticed a lot of nurses like yourself use a reference sheet. I definitely will be making my own cheat sheet to help me through.

Thanks Kittypower! I am the biggest culprit for not asking for help. But thanks for reminding me that I need to change that about myself and speak up. I always love to help out anyone especially if they are new. Because we all had to start somewhere. Hopefully I will find some great coworkers that will help me and I will definitely be there for me them when they need me.