Rn Stressors

[Lisseth85]

I have an assignment to do for class i would like to know the following questions from a Registered Nurse perspective:

1. What are the things/situations in your work life that you have found to be most stressful?

2. How do you deal with these stressors?

3. what other things do you do to take care of yourself?

4. Have you ever experienced "burnout"?

5. If you did experience ""burn-out", have you recovered, if yes, then how did you recover?

6. Have you ever had a patient die while caring for them? How did you cope with their death?

[anotherone, BSN, RN]

I have an assignment to do for class i would like to know the following questions from a Registered Nurse perspective:1. What are the things/situations in your work life that you have found to be most stressful?2. How do you deal with these stressors?3. what other things do you do to take care of yourself?4. Have you ever experienced "burnout"?5. If you did experience ""burn-out", have you recovered, if yes, then how did you recover?6. Have you ever had a patient die while caring for them? How did you cope with their death?

1 short staffing is one of the worst and being mandAted .2.Nothing i could do but complain and keep working although with an extra pt and no clerk or aide on the floor. 3. i have been working as a nurse for 2 years and the first my health did suffer. I really neglected it and the stress of my job did affect me . now i go shopping, watch tv, try to eat healthier and exercise more.4.yes have already experienced burnout5. decreasing my hours by almost half some weeks helped alot. alot easier to put up with when it is 3 12.5 hr nights a week .6. only comfort care pts have died while i was their nurse. it is expected so easy to deal with compared to a code or something unexpected

[Double-Helix, BSN, RN]

I'm guessing your assignment is to interview someone. When your instructor gave you this assignment, I doubt her intention was for you to post your questions on an anonymous forum and get responses from a stranger who may or may not even be a real nurse.

A big part of nursing is learning communication skills and stepping outside your comfort zone to talk to other people. 80% of communication is non-verbal. Then there is tone, inflection, and other aspects of verbal communication that help you understand what the other person is saying. All of this is lost when you post on the internet.

As my friend GrnTea would say, you need to think outside the four edges of your computer. Visit your school nurse. Visit a nurse at your doctor's office or local health department. Ask a nurse on your clinical unit. Find a family member or friend who is a nurse and ask to speak to them (everybody knows somebody who is a nurse). Consider your clinical instructors. Almost all of them are nurses as well.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Homework? By any chance did they tell you to ask a nurse? Because it they did... they aren't going to be happy when you said you asked someone on AN. How do you know who we are?

We get these requests a lot, so if there are any other students out there who might get this kind of assignment, listen up:

Part of your faculty's reason for giving you this assignment is to get you to go out there and speak to an RN face to face. A big email blast is not a substitute for shoe leather. AN is not Google.

See, in nursing, you have to learn to speak to a lot of people you would not otherwise encounter; you might find yourself out of your comfort zone. This is part of nursing, a huge part. An anonymous respondent online, well, you don't really know who we are, do you? We could be the truck driving guy living next door for all you know.

So if all you do about learning new things is "Go to the keyboard and hit send," then you are limiting your chances of actual learning a valuable skill you will need all your working life.

That said: Where will you find a nurse? Think outside the (computer) box.

Local hospital: go to the staff development/inservice education office and ask one of them. They value education and will be happy to chat or to hook you up with someone who is.

Go to the public health department downtown. Ditto.

Go to the local school and ask to speak to a school nurse. Ditto.

Go to a local clinic / physician/NP office. Ditto.

Go to the local jail and ask to speak to the nurse there. Ditto.

Notice all of these say, "Go to..." and not "Email..." Remember that part about meeting new people face to face and comfort zone.

Go!

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Thanks for the shout-out, Ashley :)

I also just posted this on the OP's identical request under the General Nursing area. But I'll put it here in case other students (besides the OP) don't see it there.

We get these requests a lot, so if there are any other students out there who might get this kind of assignment, listen up:

Part of your faculty's reason for giving you this assignment is to get you to go out there and speak to an RN face to face. A big email blast is not a substitute for shoe leather. AN is not Google.

See, in nursing, you have to learn to speak to a lot of people you would not otherwise encounter; you might find yourself out of your comfort zone. This is part of nursing, a huge part. An anonymous respondent online, well, you don't really know who we are, do you? We could be the truck driving guy living next door for all you know.

So if all you do about learning new things is "Go to the keyboard and hit send," then you are limiting your chances of actual learning a valuable skill you will need all your working life.

That said: Where will you find a nurse? Think outside the (computer) box.

Local hospital: go to the staff development/inservice education office and ask one of them. They value education and will be happy to chat or to hook you up with someone who is.

Go to the public health department downtown. Ditto.

Go to the local school and ask to speak to a school nurse. Ditto.

Go to a local clinic / physician/NP office. Ditto.

Go to the local jail and ask to speak to the nurse there. Ditto.

Notice all of these say, "Go to..." and not "Email..." Remember that part about meeting new people face to face and comfort zone.

Go!

[emlam]

In addition....what about the Instructors? All of my professors are RNs, MSNs, NPs, etc...Many students tend to forget that they can utilize what they have in front of them :)

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

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