Mitzi-RN
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Speaking for myself only, I am sorry you had such a bad experience in regards to your treatment after getting your NP. A nurse IS a nurse. I don't care what school my co-workers went to. What I care about is the exceptional care that they give. All of us in the field should remember how difficult training was. Not just the clinicals, the entire thing! It is as much mental as physical, and anyone coming into this field should be congratulated!! I have been in the Nursing field since 1995, but have wanted to be a nurse for just about my entire life. I love Nursing. As a profession, we should stand beside each other. We have enough people trying to break us down on a daily basis. I go to work each day with the mind set that I am going to impact at least one life. It can mean simply holding someone's hand, taking the time to wash a face, calling to update a family, or telling my co-worker that they did a good job. I don't do this job for anyone but myself. I feel good at night when I fall into bed from exhaustion, because I know I did all I could that day. I think we should remember the saying "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I think it applies to just about every situation in life. Now, I do not go around with my eyes closed, nor am I naive. I hurt my back on the job in 1998, and not a one of my fellow co-workers will stand and say they know that I hurt it on the job, even though many were told when it happened. Remember, even if you feel the smallest twinge, report it immediately!! It was a small nursing home with only me and a CNA on the floor. I am now fighting for my rights with my trial scheduled in June. We have to watch our backs...and it would be much easier if we all kept an eye out on each others. No one else will stand up for us, we have to stand up for each other. We work long shifts, low pay, low on the totem pole, and generally are not appreciated. We are all human beings trying to make it in this world. When I am training a new nurse, I remember being in their shoes. I treat them with patience and understanding. If we resort to the "well that's the way I learned" then we become part of the problem. I love the fact that someone else cared enough about others to sacrifice themselves to the field of nursing. Thank you for bringing up this topic, and maybe we can become the solution, not just part of the problem from now on. ------------------ Don't forget, everything you do has an impact on someone or something...Even doing nothing.
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First of all, if your time is so limited, then you obviously won't have enough time to treat us in the manner that we so deserve (which I may add we don't usually get on our jobs from the docs). The title does not impress, nor interest us. Have you had blunt head trauma recently?? This is not the place for this post. ------------------ Don't forget, everything you do has an impact on someone or something...Even doing nothing.