tterri22

I definitely know how you feel. I have a nurse that follows my shift almost every night. A real ball buster! I have only been in my facility for four months and the first time this Rn meets me she pulls me aside at my nurses station and says "I know you are a new grad but you made a mistake with this discharge, and why didn't you say that this patient was leaving at five am? and so on and so." Real condescending and belittling and loud enough that all of my co-workers could hear her. I was mortified! Then she turns around and threatens me saying I should have been written up. ( this chick must have thought because I was a new grad that I was a real idiot!) Well come to find out what she was saying was a mistake on my part turns out that she was wrong and I had done it correctly. I went back to this girl a few minutes later and tried to let her know how disrespected I felt. Tried to explain to her that I was trying to be helpful to her and next time I would just leave it to her to finish by herself. Well since then this nasty RN has been writing up every petty thing she can find. Things she could just simply call me about or wait to the next shift day and ask me herself. I don't complain to the supervisor, but recently this girl claims I have an attitude and the suprvisor pulls me aside acting like I am the problem. So I explained that I feel personally attacked by this girl and don't understand why she can't be adult and come to me first when there is a problem. ( that is the chain of command) Supervisor tells me that I shouldn't take any offense. But someone please tell me How do you not when someone is up your *** every five minutes diggin for your mistakes. Feel like I need to be perfect, and super knows this girl is a problem with several staff members and does nothing.

Have you tried searching on-line through some of the manufacturers? Some of the new scrubs out from dickies are heavier material.

One of the hardest things in nursing school is coming to the conclusion that memorization is not possible. With all of the information that you will be expected to absorb, it is good to try to first understand what it is you are studying. We cannot all memorize 300 pages of information. My recommendation to you is to get a study group together. Make it small and bounce things off of one another. Also, writing down small bits of information on index cards or a notebook will reinforce the material. Some instructors will even let you tape their lectures. Although, few of mine would without a significant learning need. Look, we are nurses not robots, Do you really think we memorize the PDR and know every sign and symptom of every disease process. So much of what you are learning overlaps. It is confusing now, but by your last year of this you'll be going uh hahhh. That is what this was for. Just keep plugging away. Trust me it all gets better in the end. Good luck!

I thought my supervisor was absolutely nut by this. What I neglected to mention in my first post was how the unclean patient's family member came out of the room and threatened physical violence towards me. As it turns out this family threatened not only me but also 2 other staff members on seperate shifts. Apparently, management was aware of all of these incidences but chose not to act on them. The family was fishing for things to complain about in other words. As all this was passed along to my manager it now comes to light if the patient ever returns to our hospital she will not be put on my floor. But do you think I ever got an apology or way to go for following the hospital policies and procedure. The answer to that is no. I knew in my heart and from my knowledge that I did the right thing in this situation, and regardless of what that manager seems to think, if I am ever posed with that situation again I will change none of my actions. Thank you for your agreeance. I just needed to hear it wasn't just me.

I had a situation in which I was giving a patient K-ryders for a potassium of 2.8. A seperate patient requested my care specifically to clean her because of a bowel mov't. At the time, I felt unavailable to do both and asked an aide to clean this patient and the patient refused the care due to him being a male staff member. I felt the priority in this situation was to finish giving the medications. A supervisor reprimanded me yesterday stating that patient care was more important than hanging medications and stated specifically "that there are no priorities in nursing" and that the patient who was unclean was more important than giving the medications at that time. This goes against everything I have been taught in school. I just graduated in May of this last year and am looking to find if anyone else thinks I was wrong in this situation. Any advice is appreciated. please help I have never heard of anyone losing their license for a wet bed but I certainly have for medication negligence.