AndrewSRN

And this is another example of my weakness. Instead of saying yeah your right I should have not been looking that up. I retorted with an explanation. Hopefully, I will learn sooner than later..:-/

Lol, you have a point. But not in my ER. I am in a 9 bed unit. Some days we don't see a pt until after 12pm starting at 7am. But in a large unit where the lobby never empties, you are right...

Very wise! This is what I am looking for I guess. There are things that I need to learn that don't come out of a text book, lol.

just an example. I was looking up why gtt was used as the abbreviation for drops, and others around me were telling me. "Why do you care". "Who cares". "You think too much". "gtt means drops, that's it, move on." I just don't get it. I think I just live in a society that is scared of intellect and in fact looks down upon it. I mean just look our school system. What is popular and cool is the contrary. I am just frustrated I guess.

Thanks for the response crazycute. I know what you are saying. For me this is so difficult though. I never intend to come across like a know it all, although I suppose that this is how I am perceived by others at times. I know I dont know everything, but I guess I feel like I need to be given credit for what I know and the skills I have. I am finding the opposite as I get older(27 now). This is something that I have dealt with since grade school. I just thought that if I were to enter a field/career where intellect and knowledge were important that I would more easily relate to others and not have to deal with dumbing myself down, like I do in most of my social circles.

Hey to the members of "allnurses", this is my first topic/post. I come to this forum as a place to vent, confide, and connect with other nurses, so hopefuly I have come to the right place. Cutting to the chase, I was brought into my director's office today for a 90 day evaluation of my new position as an ER nurse coming from a nursing home in the same facility. As all evaluations go, your strengths and weaknesses are reviewed. It basically went well, but something that was said to me in so many words perplexed me and actually concerned me. My major weakness is basically that I am too smart for my own good, my directors words! Now, in context, this was not referring to being cocky or over-confident. This was referring to other nurses complaining about me "not listening". Meaning that when they would want to teach me something(being the new guy) I would already know what they are going to say in most, not all by any means, but most situations. I was told that I need to act like I know nothing and "just go with it". I have been told by a few nurses that I work with that I "think too much" and that I need to put what I learned in school in the back of my mind and start learning now, and to "slow down", can you believe that? Slow down in an ER? I have actually been told by a nurse in my department that I am too smart to be a nurse. Huh?? What the heck is going on here. I am very frustrated right now. I don't know if working in a rural southern town has anything to do with my situation, but I feel that my knowledge and capability is not being utilized because its stepping on some other's egos. I know that there are ways to be diplomatic and tactful, after all I am the low man on the totem pole, I just don't know. It is just hard for me to believe that in a field where our knowledge base is paramount to safe practice is looked down upon in any way.