When I landed my first job on the Med-Surg Telemetry unit, I was over the moon. It was the same floor where I’d done my med-surg clinicals and later my preceptorship. I already knew the layout, the routine, and more importantly, the nurses. It felt like coming home. What I didn’t recognize or realize was…
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Do we really eat our young?
We’ve all heard the saying, “Nurses eat their young.” The phrase describes the jarring treatment of new nurses that can unsettle them to the point that it affects their job performance. Being the most trusted profession, we as nurses are expected to be caring, compassionate, and selfless in our service to others at all times….
But She Has 25 Years Experience
***Based on some real stuff that happened but we’ve changed the names*** New staff member; First day on the floor after facility orientation. She’s getting vital signs on her group of patients before she starts her other duties. For Mr. Johnnie Blaze, she documents a pulse ox of 69% on 2L via nasal cannula…….. Yeah,…