Surgeons who swear, throw instruments on the floor, scream at you for giving them what they asked for instead of giving them what they wanted? Backstabbing sabotaging coworkers who systematically run off new orientees so they can keep making overtime? Managers who give you a few shifts of cardiac scrub training and then put you out on your own in a ruptured TAA, even though you've never seen one before?
I know why senior nurses stay. They're the ones actually treated like human beings by surgeons and coworkers. I already started NP school, so I don't plan on hanging around the requisite 5+ years that it takes to become uber-proficient in the OR. I'm already a darn good circulator, but even if I wasn't, that still doesn't make it okay to belittle me and scream at me in public.
Newer nurses/techs...why do you do it? Is cleaning up poop really worse than being treated like it?
I don't need a pep talk. I don't need a lecture about thick skin. I'm not 'overly sensitive' because I object to being treated like dog doo. Don't tell me things are rough all over because I have new grad friends on many floors and none of them are being abused by their co-nurses. I was treated better as a student nurse in the ICU/on the floor. Heck, I was treated better as a registrar in the ED.
Basically where I work is hell (going on a little over a year now) and I'm staying just long enough to get my ACLS and CNOR. And then I'm splitting. Will my evil co-nurses snicker amongst themselves how I couldn't hack it? I'm sure they will. But where I'm from, the weak one is the one who sticks around and lets herself be treated like a b#tch.
I just wanna know what the heck motivates everybody else. And if your OR isn't chock-full of arrogant sacks of crap...well, it'd be nice to know places like that exist.
I learned that people in the OR have to modes , when we have a patient and were on the floor its business ,but when its slow and nothing is going on its fun and we enjoy laughing and making rediculus jokes together. But also everybody has "those" days and when I see it I avoid that person and keep my mouth shut tight lol !!!!
I got smacked around aaaaall the time when i started working with one particular charge nurse. She already had a tech she'd been working with since time in-memorium and I was the new fish.
I got blistered so many times it wasn't even funny. Charts not being stuffed enough, charts being too stuffed, not doing rounds, not staying in the the nurse's station-I really could NOT win. And I left too many times feeling like I was gonna stroke. Don't get me wrong, I was blistered by other nurses when I slacked off-either by accident or my my own guilt and I often times would thank them for the lesson because they were teaching me how to play the game. But that one nurse in particular... I think the final straw was when she wrote me up for not doing charting one night because i spent all my time with a patient who was trying to die on me (coffeeground puke and sudden blanching) since the minute he stepped foot on the unit and I was the only tech on the %^&* floor and chewed me out in front of the patients the minute i stepped foot on the unit.
Am I venting too much?
The only way I was able to cope was when I made a friend with another charge nurse who I felt i had a connection to-he was an odd bird. deep into history and ww2 facts and regalia. but we had a connection and I took to him like a mentor. And I think he was happy to have someone listen to his ramblings and take his little pearls of wisdom when he had them. I still left that place feeling like I was going to explode and try and take as many people with me as possible, but having a few colleagues who i could relate to took the edge off the abuse.
coffee4metech
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I learned that people in the OR have to modes , when we have a patient and were on the floor its business ,but when its slow and nothing is going on its fun and we enjoy laughing and making rediculus jokes together. But also everybody has "those" days and when I see it I avoid that person and keep my mouth shut tight lol !!!!