pilotnurse

hahahaha! Also great to hear as you walk in the door at home ... "oh, so glad that you're home, now we can tackle that clogged toilet, clean the crayon off the wall, jr has a fever, history project, fill in the blank." :)

not a lot of advice for you, except don't let them make you doubt that you a good person with a purpose and that you will find that. I don't know why nurses do this kind of crap to each other. We're supposed to be healers and supposed to be better than that. Makes me sad. This kind of crap has been going on a lot where I work and I've made it my mission to be kind to everyone and to write as many kudos and compliments as I can, trying to balance out the ugly with good. Try to be an agent for good, even as people target you. It will all be ok. :hug:

I should clarify; I don't mean take an assignment while in charge. I mean they are dedicated charge nurses who never have a patient assignment. If they come in on an off day they are placed in a resource or float role, but never with a normal nurses assignment. We also have 5 managers, which seems like a lot for 180 employees to me. Especially since we don't ever see them. I'm not complaining about that except for the fact that there are frequent big policy changes made by charge nurses and managers that often don't work because they're being made by people not in patient care, in my opinion. It seems like it would be easier for them to just work a few shifts a month and get a feel for what really needs to change and what doesn't.

Could you shadow? Don't be afraid, my favorite teachers were the ones who were approachable and not afraid to admit what they didn't know. You could always introduce yourself at the very beginning by saying "my experience is x and this is not my specialty..."

I've recently started work in an ER and have been a little bit bothered by the fact that the Managers and Charge nurses do not ever work on the unit or take a patient assignment. It is kind of strange to me, and I was wondering if this is standard practice in nursing? I worked as a tech during nursing school and on that unit everyone worked as a staff nurse at least once in a while. It seems odd not to, since they are the ones making decisions about how things will run, yet they don't know from experience what is working or not working.