sushinerd

I am one of the most nervous, anxious test takers you will ever meet. Laura's lectures plus the questions off the pass CCRN CD was plenty fine for me to pass last year. She gives you exactly what you need to know to PASS, not necessarily get 100%. The Pass CCRN CD gave a lot of great practice for the exam, and I felt it was fairly close the the level of difficulty of the actual exam. Study those and I'm sure you'll be writing CCRN after your name very soon :)

Hey guys, I'm in need of some advice... Six months ago, I finally got my dream job in trauma ICU. I'm an experienced ICU nurse, have CCRN and CNRN and worked in med/surg ICU prior. I absolutely love the work I do with the patient population I serve...but I cannot seem to connect with my co-workers. There are three distinct cliques on my shift that have no interest in being corteous toward me. I am nice to everyone, always check to see if they need help, etc. Some of them will just say no to help without even looking me in the eye or saying thank you, and then two minutes later get someone else to help them. Conversation seems to come to a halt if I try to contribute something, and if I ask to learn about something I don't have much experience with, they get annoyed with me for asking and spend a couple of minutes hurriedly explaining what was going on and not let me as questions. There is some very poor behavior that goes on in that unit too. One charge nurse is constantly working on learning another language (and when she is doing pt care will ignore call lights or beeping pumps with empty pressor bags), nurses with intubated 1:1s will be watching movies or listening to music on their iPads in the patient rooms, they talk at length about sexual experiences, or they chase each other around the unit and make startled noises. It is super unprofessional but I strongly feel that if I said something, even anonymously, it would somehow come back to bite me in the butt. I have never experienced this kind of treatment at any job I've held before. I got along great at my old ICU, but for some reason, this place seems to go out of their way to let me know they have a problem with me. They can't get me in my nursing care, it's always spot on, and in my review I had no complaints. How do I deal with these people? I know I'm there to do a job, not socialize...but 12 hours of being given the cold shoulder gets to you after a while... Thank you so so much, Lonely ICU Nurse