She sure did... and with a straight face!

[Camemile]

Promptly turn me away as soon as she asked about my experience as a RN and I said that I was a new grad. I'm referring to the Director of Recruitment for a hospital. I went to a career fair that I had pre-registered for and disclosed on the form that I was a new grad! I was not informed prior to the event that we would be looked at like we have a highly contagious disease and that we should just stay home! I wouldn't have wasted an hour drive and parking fees to be told to go online and wait for GN jobs to be posted. Why couldn't they just put in the description of the event that GNs (even with a license) would not be allowed! They were very nice to me even commenting on my attire, but as soon as I said new grad... It's like I turned green or something. They could have at least taken a resume! I understand the whole economy thing and the cost to train new nurses and blah blah blah... BUT what I can't for the life of me understand is why they feel the need to treat us like we're less than because we don't have experience. It is very disheartening to go through several years of intense education/training and then pass a licensing test AND receive a professional license and still be treated like I'm not even a person not to mention a licensed RN!!! It makes me !!! They could've at least thanked me for the time I took to express interest in their hospital! Makes me not even want to look for jobs anymore ...

Thanks for reading my rant/vent!

[Kooky Korky, BSN, RN]

Yes, it is getting worse. Hospitals are working very short staffed. Patients are becoming more demanding. I was passing meds the other night and one woman's tv was not working. I called to see if maintenance could come fix it and was told "we do not have maintenance to fix tv's at this time". I had to climb up on a chair and work with a tv for 15 minutes to try to get the picture to come in. The lady was shouting that something was wrong. Other nurses came into the room just to see that her tv was not working. Nursing is not nursing anymore

Don't try to fix any more TV's. You could have fallen, gotten hurt, might have caused damage and been blamed for it, and you probably had many other things to do that were actually requiring a nurse to do them.

This was an inappropriate use of your time, IMHO.

You called Maintenance and that was enough. You could have just handed the pt some magazines or given her a sleeper.

[Cuddleswithpuddles]

Don't try to fix any more TV's. You could have fallen, gotten hurt, might have caused damage and been blamed for it, and you probably had many other things to do that were actually requiring a nurse to do them.

This was an inappropriate use of your time, IMHO.

You called Maintenance and that was enough. You could have just handed the pt some magazines or given her a sleeper.

I totally agree.

I am sure gettingbsn2msn meant very well.

I would want to do everything I can for my patient but 1. time with the TV takes time away from patient care and 2. communicates to that lady that they can get me to go above and beyond my duties by yelling. Even if I intended to fix her TV anyway, the yelling would stop me dead in my tracks.

No sane manager would hold it against a nurse for not getting up on a ladder to fix a TV.