ConnieDiamondWhite

I would like to think the interviewer would appreciate honesty when it comes to your answers. Most would see the "bigger picture", revealing having a new RN grad whom the facility already knows their working ethic, call in frequency, flexibility, etc. Sounds like someone who isn't really thinking about what's best for their facility.

It's not that they won't pay to see us do an assessment, that's not what we're asking for. If you have ever been in a room with a patient who is critically ill, and the nurse steps in, controls the situation, saves the patient's life, the family, etc. spend hours complimenting the staff for their brilliant performance, that is what they want to "see"!! However, since it is a life we are discussing, they expect that to be done for nothing!!! It is owed to humankind to have nurses who are loyal to a fault, as it is a female dominated profession. Those same people, you are correct, will pay thousands of dollars a year for "entertainment" yet resent having to pay for a $20,000 hospital stay for life-saving care and technology. That $20,000 out of their pocket reduces their ability to pay for "fun" things, so they don't want to. As well as feeling those things are an inherent right, having hospitals and nurses to provide care. What I can't explain, is why they don't resent doctors salaries!! An MD comes in for 10 minutes a day, changes a couple of orders (usually requested by the nurse) and wanders off. The nursing staff is there 24/7 providing the real care that heals!! The reason nurses should be receiving at least 100K/year is that nursing can do ANY function in the hospital that any of the ancillary departments do, (take xrays, draw blood, run blood, etc)and they can not, in a hundred years do what we do!! We are the care managers, we oversee all of those other things, put them together into one big picture, and change things that need to be changed. It's time we stand up and take charge of our profession, and demand what we are worth. But I have been in this profession over 30 years, and I can tell you those around us will just continue to go to work, because our patients need us, refuse to create TRUE unions that have TRUE power, and continue to grovel to MDs. Until we get more males in here, it will never change.

You're right, get out before you hurt someone else. Not necessarily physically, but being cared for by a witch who hates what she does can be crushing for an elderly patient who is in physical and mental pain, who's needs are not being met. The very component that makes nursing the healing profession it is. Nothing is worse than feeling like you are a burden to another, when the are SUPPOSEDLY there to help you!!!!

I totally agree, however not standing up to them results in children's lives being put in danger, they seem to forget these vaccines prevent potentially DEADLY DISEASES!!!!!! Thanks Robert DeNiro...you're an actor, not a scientist!!!

Many of our patients are not schooled in health care, and that kind of unrelenting pain, often accompanied by fever, is terrifying. They want a professional person, trained in dealing with them to put their mind at ease. Yes, the spouse was probably just as frustrated, seeing a loved one in pain that you can do nothing about brings out the worst in a lot of men. I also think the situation was showing how fear also effects nurses a patient crashing with a BP in the 50s right before our eyes”. Are you really that angry at this patient, or upset over what you feel helpless to control? I have noticed that ER staff are often more compassionate to those who's situations are life threatening, must be the adrenaline rush associated with a code. Does not make others needs less important to them… She was also upset that we did not offer her a tampon or pad after we did her pelvic exam because she was bleeding. We never offer pads and I have never heard such an angry outburst over a pad.” Do you really think that outburst was over a pad?????? This woman went to a hospital to receive competent and compassionate care, and her pain, fear and humiliation of bleeding lady partslly onto her clothing that others could see is not even addressed! What kind of a facility will not give a patient a pad if she is experiencing her period and has none with her??? Where is the patient advocacy here? I would be extremely upset, being in pain, waiting for care, and the response to asking for a sanitary napkin received that haughty answer!!!! If I had been her nurse, I would have gone to my purse and given her one of mine. That's what nurses do, put their patient's needs ahead of everything else. Please do me a favor, let us all know what hospital you work in, so we can avoid it. Patients don't need this kind of demeaning care! No, this is not bullying, just recognizing that the younger generation of nurses are much more concerned with their own needs, Lord help the baby boomers!!! Apparently compassion is not taught (nor should it have to be) in nursing school anymore!

Miss Jacqueline, Just a short note to tell you Thank You. After having been an RN for almost 30 years, there are more days than not where I can become extremely negative. I struggle and fight just to get through 8 hours. However, I have just printed off your article, and am carrying it with me to work tonight. I am planning on sharing it with my staff of LPNs and CNAs, and want to encourage each other to put the positive side to the forefront. I have included your name and will point them to this site, to find more of your insightful thoughts to share. Thank you again, and I am hoping, that when I am old and dependent on nurses to give me the care I need to have a life, that I have someone with your outlook on nursing at my bedside. It will make all of the difference!

I took my ADN-BSN from Roberts Weslyan College in Rochester, New York. We had to do a 20-page paper every week. What do you want??? This requirement not only required us to learn to research topics competently and put them into a format others can understand (teaching), it challenged one to think outside of their own comfort zone. The research we did opened our minds to others thoughts and processes, providing a diversity that cannot be found in every day life. I was never so proud as when I completed that school and graduated with honors. When my job as a nurse requires researching something new that no one has ever encountered in our facility, I can do that in a heartbeat. Sharing with other staff is what I have been trained to do. Your school is quite easy on you, anything worth having is worth working for. Quit whining and get to work, learn things you DON'T know, that's what school is about.