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I too am finding myself here less and less. Some of the changes have bummed me out and I agree , the fun gets shut down far too often. But I will miss interacting with you guys that's for sure.

I'm going to agree with my colleagues Akula and Mike. Although I work in a cushy clinic job as retirement nears, I am a senior National Ski Patroller, EMT-P and worked decades in CCT, Flight and ED. Without scene safety and management training, without even basic first aid education and certainly without the equipment we are used to having stopping at accident scenes is a risk I would not recommend to take especially for new grads. Answering the call on a plane? Sure. There's only so much you can do. MVC? Not so much. Even with my experience I think twice about stopping. If I can do so safely I'll stop sometimes. If I can't, I make the 911 call. Honestly if any of you want to be helpful in the community I would highly recommend you take a first aid course. You'd be surprised what you didn't learn in nursing school.

The tele position will get you a strong foot in the door for the ED as well as the hospital. HH is not a great place for new grads and rehab, while a terrific specialty, will not have the same weight as the tele position.

So let me get this straight...you had 6 weeks to orient to 3 disparate, complicated specialties, were given vague explanations of your "deficiencies", were not offered any assistance/education to improve but instead were left on your own to try to figure it out AND didn't get the full 30 days? Girl, they did you a favor. Pick that chin up and move on. You'll find your place. ?

The problem I have with the phrase "nurses eat their young" is that workplace bullying is not unique to nursing nor is it perpetrated only by senior nurses. I agree with Tweety that the statement needs to go away and instead of pointing the finger at one particular group recognize that this is an issue that impacts all humans in all walks of life and somehow we need to figure out how to make it stop.

This 100%. "Some humans eat other humans" is much more accurate but just as vile of a concept. I wish people would stop propagating the wildly inaccurate idea that only older nurses are running around abusing younger nurses. Bad humans are bad humans and they come in all shapes, ages and sizes. They are also present in every single workplace. Nursing does not have a corner on this market.

I'm sorry Matt but per our TOS we cannot give medical advice. Sending positive thoughts your way.

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Politely demand this in writing. This will call her bluff without risking your employment. If what she is stating is against written policy she will not want you to have proof of it and will back down. If she persists you might want to contact your state's labor board.

"Patient advocate" ?

I am seriously shocked and massively impressed that these physicians have gone to this length to support Lucy and are working so hard to right what I have come to believe is an egregious wrong.

I get what you're saying and I did not mean to imply a lack of critical thinking or inability to adjust care to a situation, but care by protocol is, by nature, "cookbookish". FTR: I was on an extremely high level peds/neo team and one thing is certain....kids don't like to follow the rules. Regardless, applying this to in-patient care with no physician or other provider type on site is a recipe for disaster.

That's why I appreciated your sage advice to for them to remain quiet and let the chips fall where they may. I've learned if you point out the issues prior to implementation when those issues arise, and you know they will, they somehow manage to make it your fault they happened. It's maddening.

Not disagreeing and given the ridiculous plan this place has come up with so far they can't be trusted to make any good decisions. However, this is very much the reason the role of the NP came up in the first place.