Will I become a burned out too?

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I am half way through nursing school and LOVING every minute of it! I am so beyond stressed and drained but so happy I chose to do this.

My only real "complaint" if you will is the fact that every nurse (minus 2 or 3) that I have had as preceptors are MEAN. Straight up superiority complexes and just plain caddy and awful. Its like I have a huge X on my forehead or something. I know I am at the bottom of the chain right now and that is all good. But do I not deserve any respect, even just a tiny bit as a fellow human being? I have not made any of my nurses lives worse...in fact I do everything I can to do all of the grunt work and take SO much off their plates. So why am I being treated like dirt? I told my husband about my frustration and he asked if I was going to turn into a "*****" too...lol! I sure plan on not being one! Maybe that is why I am going through this right now...to feel what it is like to be treated so badly so that when I am a nurse I can treat students like human beings.

Seriously though, were they not students at one time?! :down:

Okay- I just needed to vent..thanks for reading.

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I'm sorry that you're not being treating fairly. I ask myself many times how someone who is so mean can be in this profession--- even tonight-- I stopped at good old Wal-Mart to grab some things for my sons Birthday and there was a lady walking around in scrubs with a young kiddo in her cart and what I learned to be her mother with her. I crossed paths with her several times in the store and I could not BELIEVE the way she was talking to her daughter, and her mother! She was cursing, and just plain nasty.. I tried to tell myself "Maybe she's just stressed out..just got out of work or something" only to overhear her say to her mom "I don't have time for this S-word, I have to go to work" and proceed to scream at her daughter! If this is how she treats her child and own mother how is she treating the people she is supposed to be CARING FOR?!

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
I'm sorry that you're not being treating fairly. I ask myself many times how someone who is so mean can be in this profession--- even tonight-- I stopped at good old Wal-Mart to grab some things for my sons Birthday and there was a lady walking around in scrubs with a young kiddo in her cart and what I learned to be her mother with her. I crossed paths with her several times in the store and I could not BELIEVE the way she was talking to her daughter, and her mother! She was cursing, and just plain nasty.. I tried to tell myself "Maybe she's just stressed out..just got out of work or something" only to overhear her say to her mom "I don't have time for this S-word, I have to go to work" and proceed to scream at her daughter! If this is how she treats her child and own mother how is she treating the people she is supposed to be CARING FOR?!

I'm going to toss out a caveat here.

Just because she is wearing scrubs, that may NOT mean she is caring for people/pts.

What if she is a pharmacy tech? vet tech? housekeeping? ward clerk? A number of hospitals/facilites have ALL employees wear scrubs, regardless if they are on the clinical side of things.

Too bad she is so cruel to her kid.

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I forgot to mention her name badge- that's how I knew- she was a CNA.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.
I forgot to mention her name badge- that's how I knew- she was a CNA.

UGH....

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That is terrible! I have met some really amazing CNA's that are great at what they do. I feel like the CNA's are nicer than the RN's. I have NO idea what in the world I did to deserve the treatment I have been receiving. I did not take it personally until the other day when I was eating lunch in the breakroom. I was almost done eating and one of the nurses came in the breakroom and said "a group of us RN's are going to lunch soon, so you need to find a different place to finish your lunch." I about fell out of my chair! I mean I was almost done and you could see that I was finished pretty much and NO other RN's were even around. I ended up being the bigger person and not saying anything snarky...I just said "no problem, I was just finishing up" and walked out. The kicker is that no one took lunch like she was saying...I found out later.

I have been reviewing over in my mind what I could have done to upset them and really, honestly nothing comes to mind. My clinical instructor even said that I have been going above and beyond. She did mention that the whole clinical group has been experiencing a negative attitude as a whole from the RN's. I dunno but I get that general feeling on every floor we have been to, worse on the floor we just left. I just don't get it.

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Specializes in cardiac-telemetry, hospice, ICU.

"Seriously though, were they not students at one time?!"

Yes! Now that I am on the teaching end, I say this to myself every day I get a student. Most nurses on my floor realize this, but some are just not nice. Guess what? Take any population of individuals and you will always find some of each. Will you get burned out? Well maybe, but you don't have to let it get that way.

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Yes I agree this is very sad and disappointing. Word of advice vent like you are to other students and professors. And lastly, but the most important is say something to the nurse and if to scared get a RN on the floor who you can trust to talk to the nurse! I am new grad that has just started on an ICU floor. I have gotten some slack but stick up for myself and have already squashed some student put downs. So find a new who will stand up for you and stand up for yourself as well! Know you are not alone in this and say something!

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