Ugh! Feeling a little frustrated today with some other newbie nurses (I am one myself). As part of orientation, we have several tasks that we have to complete and classes to attend. I find them very beneficial. However, it seems there are one or two immature individuals that insist on complaining, degrading, disregarding, and disrespecting every lecture, inservice and instructor/guest speaker that we have. It was easy to ignore at first, but now it seems it is spreading to other previously satisfied new grads who want to be part of this little group. Sometimes, I wish I could just speak my mind, but it would not be very professional...
- Yes, it is important that I know how to read EKGs forwards, backwards, and sideways in case my pt has a rhythm change and I need to intervene. :trout:
- Yes, I do need to know how to interpret ABGs even though we always have a respiratory therapist, because there are other assessment findings that I must take into consideration when providing treatment.
- Yes, I do want to learn how to read a 12 lead even though the diagnosis is generated at the top of the page...it is not always accurate.
- No, I don't want to have to move closer to hear the instructor/speaker because you want to gossip about how much you drank this weekend, your friend from highschool that got arrested, or which doctor you think is hot. I happen to think hemodynamics is an important aspect of critical care.
- No...I don't chart before I do something, I do follow the 'stupid' protocols, and I do take notes during these classes and read up on the newest recommendations outside of work. That's because I value my license.
- No...I don't know how you made it through nursing school either. :trout:
I guess I am just having a bad day. But being around this group for a few days reminds me of highschool too much. It's like watching an episode of the hills on MTV. :trout: It appalls me that some people lack such maturity and professionalism, yet choose an advanced area of practice. And then claim, they are going to apply for CRNA school after a year. Good luck with that when you don't even know the oral care protocol or why it's done.
I am sick of hearing about your crappy or otherwise sex lives. Come on, don't whine to me about not, "getting any" cause you aren't the only one! And the whole " Me and my spouse aren't getting along" thing is so OVERDONE. I am not your counselor. Please invest in a marital psychotherapist who is not employed in our department.
And a personal pet peeve- If you wear a thong, can you please make sure you wear suspenders too? The sight of your backside is unsightly and unprofessional.
That's all folks!
You reminded me! There is a woman where I work who is a bit overweight and wears low-cut scrub bottoms and short scrub tops and wears a thong . . . . . .
And I'm so with you on the talk about sex lives . . . .
The basic description of the 'orientation' you gave sounds VERY much like the CCTP (Critical Care Transition Program) that I got as a newbie since I was starting on a critical care floor. (this was AFTER the regular 'newbie nurse' orientation) I sat right up front (always do). It was intense, it had info that while at the same time as some of it was rather boring (due I'm sure to the presentation as well as the length of each day of 'class') it was (and I knew it at the time) something that we would really need to understand and "get".
During this class -throughout most of the orientation pragram- there were a row of newbies in the back of the class that continuously cut up, whispered (too loudly) and carried on throughout most of the classes.
I sincerely wish I'd had the courage to stand up, look a them, and tell them to 'stow it' -if they didn't need the class, >I
quit talking about each other behind your backs, get off the phone with your boyfriend and DO YOUR FREAKING JOB so those who actually work hard don't have to pick up the pieces!!!! :angryfire Oh yeah and we could care less about your sex life.
Specializes in FNP, Peds, Epilepsy, Mgt., Occ. Ed.
Got to really wonder about those who share so much about their sex lives at work. I don't wanna know either. What makes them think I do?
It seems to be a pretty common phenomenon as a lot of folks have mentioned it. I've run into it myself, though not currently.
I don't know why anyone thinks that other people want to hear the intimate details of their lives. I've wondered if they get some sort of exhibitionistic thrill, like having public sex, if they think it gives the listeners a thrill, or if they're just so wrapped up in themselves that they can't imagine we're not all fascinated.
I don't think it matters if the listeners have fantastic sex lives themselves or have none at all, I think most of us just don't want to hear it!
I'm glad nobody on my floor wears scents or perfumes. I can just imagine "Euw De Toilette" mingling with the other sundry and not-so-pleaseant smells that the patients can emit.
I would say, "X, I like you as a person and you are an excellent nurse with a good heart. But you are on my last nerve with trying to control even whether I give someone a peanut butter sandwich! You take anal retentive to a new dimension"
To the L&D nurses at my hospital's OB unit: if you refuse to do postpartum care on the floor, don't complain about the float nurses having to be brought in to care for the moms and babies and the gyne surgery patients cuz you won't, while you sit at the table and gossip all night waiting for a labor patient to come in and we run our butts off... I don't mind coming to your unit and could deal with baby poop, pee and spit up and brand new pp moms all night long, but I cannot deal with your attitudes
If I could say these things to my co workers things would be so much easier.
Here goes:
1. STOP WHINING about your assignment from the moment you get to work. I don't want to hear about it. I have my own 2 patients to worry about.
2. STOP with the FOUL language. Our rooms DON'T have doors and the patients and famlies CAN HEAR you every time you cuss.
3. STOP griping about how many paramaters your pt has and how many labs you have to draw at 2400 or whenever and how often. YOU will get DONE quicker if you stopped telling me all about it and just shut up and did it. I AM sorry you weren't singled but we didn't have the staff to single you so QUIT whining.
4. Dear day shift. COULD YOU PLEASE SHOW UP ON TIME?? I have already worked 12 hours and want to go home.
5. Some of you day shift nurses report WOULD be EASIER if you actually LISTENED to me and I didn't have to REPEAT EVERYTHING. If I missed it, then it is on the communications sheet.
Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN
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You reminded me! There is a woman where I work who is a bit overweight and wears low-cut scrub bottoms and short scrub tops and wears a thong . . . . . .
And I'm so with you on the talk about sex lives . . . .
steph