Post by abby on Jul 26, 2010 14:28:35 GMT -5
bh i am working for about three months now. i have learned so much but it has been and continues to be hard work and it's also been SCARY. it's impossible not to realize acutely as a new nurse how much you don't know and how much you're not really yet prepared to competently assess or do.
so i think i must credit my survival thus far to the other much more experienced nurses at my job. they have helped me with everything i've needed, always given me modest and sound advice, and held my hand for example through a pretty awful med error such of the type that i had promised myself up and down during nursing school that i would never, ever make - and which i continued on to have nightmares about for the next two weeks (everything turned out to be ok). i am sure that, even despite the time and money and emotional and physical energy i've invested to get to this point, i would have quit the first month if not for them.
in school i was required to attend a seminar about "lateral violence," which i learned is a term for all the sneaky ways people can be mean to each other without overtly being mean. i was told that this is a particular issue in healthcare and among nurses, since it is a female-dominated profession etc. etc. i'm not saying that i haven't ever seen any of this at work - but i've seen the complete opposite of it at least a thousand times more often. i think a more accurate stereotype about nurses is that they're made up of people who are often intrinsically very kind, and caring, etc. as least this has been my experience and i start by now to feel quite proud to be a member of such a group.
so i really want to say thank you to all the nurses on this board who have ever taught and/or been kind to new nurses, which i'm sure is everyone except those of us who are quite new ourselves. it means really a lot a lot a lot.
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sorry i never posted about israel. i went back and forth with achot about it a little and the whole thing was just kind of depressing and i didn't love to talk about it. as i told achot, misrad habriut was just not any more receptive to my program when i tried to explain it more fully and was not very helpful or explicit when i asked how its gaps could potentially be filled in according to their standards. i don't know, maybe they hesitate to say anything concretely because things are changing or they know things are changing soon. this is what i hope at least. i still plan to go though i must say i feel discouraged. but iyh i'm sure it is all for the best. mordechai i know you must be at the end of your trip - but i am happy to send you the relevant contact information if you would like. i think everything is much much easier in israel when you are a BSN.
kol tov to everyone and a very happy tu b'av!
so i think i must credit my survival thus far to the other much more experienced nurses at my job. they have helped me with everything i've needed, always given me modest and sound advice, and held my hand for example through a pretty awful med error such of the type that i had promised myself up and down during nursing school that i would never, ever make - and which i continued on to have nightmares about for the next two weeks (everything turned out to be ok). i am sure that, even despite the time and money and emotional and physical energy i've invested to get to this point, i would have quit the first month if not for them.
in school i was required to attend a seminar about "lateral violence," which i learned is a term for all the sneaky ways people can be mean to each other without overtly being mean. i was told that this is a particular issue in healthcare and among nurses, since it is a female-dominated profession etc. etc. i'm not saying that i haven't ever seen any of this at work - but i've seen the complete opposite of it at least a thousand times more often. i think a more accurate stereotype about nurses is that they're made up of people who are often intrinsically very kind, and caring, etc. as least this has been my experience and i start by now to feel quite proud to be a member of such a group.
so i really want to say thank you to all the nurses on this board who have ever taught and/or been kind to new nurses, which i'm sure is everyone except those of us who are quite new ourselves. it means really a lot a lot a lot.
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sorry i never posted about israel. i went back and forth with achot about it a little and the whole thing was just kind of depressing and i didn't love to talk about it. as i told achot, misrad habriut was just not any more receptive to my program when i tried to explain it more fully and was not very helpful or explicit when i asked how its gaps could potentially be filled in according to their standards. i don't know, maybe they hesitate to say anything concretely because things are changing or they know things are changing soon. this is what i hope at least. i still plan to go though i must say i feel discouraged. but iyh i'm sure it is all for the best. mordechai i know you must be at the end of your trip - but i am happy to send you the relevant contact information if you would like. i think everything is much much easier in israel when you are a BSN.
kol tov to everyone and a very happy tu b'av!