the pettiness that is nursing drives me nuts...i find myself getting drawn in and i hate that! the other night there was this big baby girl (a term kid) who the nurse could not get blood from. so i offered to do an art stick (which, not to brag...i am fairly good at)...because the nurse is older than me in years but not in experience i got rejected. and this is not the first time... often this nurse reacts this way to me because of the inability of people to band together and rely on each other. i hate that i get persecuted because of my age...i have good assesment skills and excellent bedside manner. i am a great help to my patients and their families...just because i am young doesn't mean i don't have experience. i have seen lots of kids with lots of stuff that this nurse has never seen before. i got frustrated.
then...you have to remember that there are nurses who redeem the process...for example...i am not the best at venipunctures. we just didn't do them where i worked before...so i was hesistant to do one on my kid because i didn't want to waste what veins he had left. but this very seasoned nurse encouraged me to do one and really helped me be successful...there are kindred souls in nursing...just sometimes, they are few and far between.
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