I think I'm done answering student nurse help me threads here.
I've gotten rude answers, or they never even bother coming back to the thread to acknowledge the answers they received.
Some will ask life choice questions like "Where should I move?" or "Where should I apply?". Do they think someone is going to offer them a job here, is that why they start these threads? You have the whole internet to research towns, cities, regions, but instead you post a thread asking a bunch of strangers where you should move?
Some help me threads seem to be 'Help me do my homework' threads.
Gave it up for surgery, my real love. Too many women and hormones running riot in Women's!
I've been told I'm not empathetic enough to work in L&D. Of course, I've also been told I'm not competent/experienced enough to be in acute care, either (medicine/surgery), so I suppose the standards in NY for the NCLEX are substandard and I ought to reduce myself to MD office nursing.
[h=2]vi-o-lence[/h] noun \ˈvī-lən(t)s, ˈvī-ə-\: the use of physical force to harm someone, to damage property, etc.
: great destructive force or energy
Whatever you want to call it? It's not "violence." "Violence" has a definition. If you were a victim of it you'd know it. ADULTS with college degrees and professional licenses need to stop acting like babies when faced with personalities and situations they're not used to, or get a different job. A high stress fast paced environment is no place to coddle, coo and hand-hold a 22 year old. If they need that kind of treatment they need to start out in mother-baby or something. I had no time for it on med surg.
I've been told I'm not empathetic enough to work in L&D. Of course, I've also been told I'm not competent/experienced enough to be in acute care, either (medicine/surgery), so I suppose the standards in NY for the NCLEX are substandard and I ought to reduce myself to MD office nursing.
Whoa. Slow your roll. You are just a bag full of insults.
Sarah I'm sorry your having such a hard time adjusting to being a new grad. From what you have posted it doesn't sound like you had a good orientation program. 3 preceptors? Why may I ask? Also if you didn't feel comfortable with your patient assignment why not say something to your charge? Or if you don't feel your orientation was accurate enough talk to your clinical educator about additional orientation. Going back and reading the previous posts it appears to me that you had a bad experience with your preceptors,co workers,and you lumped all of us nurses into that bad experience because we vented about students not doing research for homework before posting. Again just my opinion.
My point is that if someone, just barely off orientation, tells you a patient is going south and requests help as they're not familiar with a rather large order set that comes in, it would seem to me that, as the resource nurse, someone should assist, ESPECIALLY if they don't have a patient assignment.
I am confused, I thought this thread was about students posting questions HERE?? How does this play into the subject of the thread???
Hahaha! I'll admit that as a student I think I posted the question on the student boards "how long until you got your att?" It turned out to be a holiday weekend and they were going alphabet backwards so my friend with a last name that was at the very back of the alphabet was scheduling her NCLEX and I was freaking out (I think I got mine the following Wed and she had hers the previous Thursday). 7 years later and I still have nightmares I am going to get a call that I didn't pass a class and have to redo nursing school. Nursing school does have that knack of bringing out the insanity.
Since AN had a remodeling of the site, I've been finding/trying new features, and one I happened upon was a link to see what new "likes" have been added to posted comments since my last log-in. Imagine my utter SHOCK to see I had about a bazillion new "likes" on The Mockery of Nursing thread, which was closed down (undeservedly, IMO) a year ago!!
So I went to the thread, and saw all these new names on the "likes".....then followed the logic back to THIS thread, and spent a solid HOUR reading through it all!
LOL....or ROFLMAO, more like it....simply fabulous. Haven't laughed this much since TMON ran afoul of someone or other and got closed down.
Some comments: What, SoldierNurse, is a "sweet bippy"? Do I have one? How do I know it's sweet? Should I file a grievance with my nursing school if I find it is NOT sweet, as promised? :)
JewelNewbie (or whatever some such variation it is, I can't remember the moniker exactly): It would serve you well to read through some forum threads before posting "?????" again on this thread. Truly.
To those who find it absolutely of no concern whatsoever to post your photo and specifics of your job in a forum such as this, I honestly, REALLY hope that the worst that happens is you find out your nurse manager and/or co-workers aren't appreciative of your truthful commentaries. Because what *I* fear for you when pointing out using your real photo and identifying features is a BAD idea has nothing to do with your career, and everything to do with your life. There are stark raving FREAKS out there who take joy in hurting people they "figure out" on message boards....people who care not whether you "stand by your truthful statements", they may want to actually kill you all the same. PLEASE, please take caution!
As for the COBS, I don't use the siggy line probably because I haven't quite felt worthy of the Seniority the title confers, being an "in-between" nurse when it comes to nursing years under my belt. But, I do insist that being a second-career War Horse DOES, in fact, allow me some Crusty Bat privileges
Thank you to the veteran nurses for providing the comedy, and the unsuspecting newbies for providing the source material :)
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Gave it up for surgery, my real love. Too many women and hormones running riot in Women's!