I've been a nurse for about 4 years now but this is my first real floor nursing job. I am 4 weeks into precepting on a MedSurg floor and I'm just wondering...
Why is it that preceptors generally tend to be negative towards nurses they are teaching?
My preceptor has tried to throw me to the wolves since day 1. Every time I've asked her for help or tried to explain that I was in over my head she just tells me that I need to feel this stress and doesn't help me at all.
This overall experience has been miserable but I have been trying to be a trooper and stick it out.
I had my first mini review with my manager today that overall went well she said she definitely saw me progressing and said I was doing pretty good. She said she was going to switch my preceptor for my last couple of weeks so that I can learn some different techniques ... and, get a different point of view.
I think that's a great idea even if I thought my preceptor was wonderful it's always good to have more than one perspective.
At the end of a very very long shift after 3 straight days my preceptor tells me that I'm going to work with somebody else next week. She proceeds to tell me that it's because there are certain things that I'm just not picking up from her and that maybe I will be able to pick it up from the other person.
A nice way of saying I wasn't doing well and that it was somehow my fault.
I'm just wondering why is it that nurses tend to eat their young?
Why can't they just be a little bit more patient and understanding that things take time and that I'm not going to be at 100% so early in the game. Why can't they stop for a second and put themselves back in the shoes of being brand-new on a MedSurg floor when it's very busy and there's 10 million things going on and you feel a little overwhelmed??
I want to thank Nursy1,Rn for asking this question I am amazed at all the answers and opinions I am a CNA waiting to enter a NURSING program and all of this is like a giant class room lecture and has opened my eyes to various ways of seeing and thinking in regards to this type of nursing experience my first reaction to some answers was that these people have no heart and no sympathy then I realized that the comments were from the heart and is the Nurse version of tough love
I think nurses eat their young because of burnout. IMO they need to take a vacation or maybe change careers or maybe change the work environment. I also think it starts in nursing school. I have seen it!!! I had to check a lady for trying to bully me and another classmate and she left me alone. No one deserves to feel like they do not belong or feel uncomfortable when all you are trying to do is LEARN. Sometimes I wonder what will I do when nurses try to bully me?? I have seen it so many times and it is really sad!! So people can act like it do not exist all they want until they meet the right one to bully. I pray that everything worked out for you. take care.
dedicated_2b_RN
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I want to thank Nursy1,Rn for asking this question I am amazed at all the answers and opinions I am a CNA waiting to enter a NURSING program and all of this is like a giant class room lecture and has opened my eyes to various ways of seeing and thinking in regards to this type of nursing experience my first reaction to some answers was that these people have no heart and no sympathy then I realized that the comments were from the heart and is the Nurse version of tough love