If I had a dollar for every time that someone has said "Apply to non-hospital jobs".....I would have enough money to buy myself seat on a hospital board o directors....
when I was in nursing school, I bent over backwards to be kind and respectful to the experienced nurses (when they were precepting me, I even offered to run and get them coffee if they really needed...
I've never seen any older nurses "running circles around the younger ones." The only people who say that are the old nurses who should have retired 10 years