tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post8543536506312030362..comments2023-06-14T03:36:55.988-07:00Comments on Head Nurse: How I learned to stop worrying and stopped giving a shit--and became a better nurse.Johttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16520599099436383317noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-84177044168739225962015-02-02T15:39:47.540-08:002015-02-02T15:39:47.540-08:00Dear "don't give a shit anymore", I ...Dear "don't give a shit anymore", I read your blog randomly after researching blogging and typed in nursing blogs. I am currently a ADN and rolled in the RN to BSN program and will graduate in July, 2015. I wanted to see if there was any room in the blogging world to share my own opinions and experiences as an RN. I find that more and more nurses have the same attitude as you do these days. I feel that nurses don't feel respected or appreciated the way they deserve, I have a feeling that is why you just don't care anymore. It sounds to like deep down your feeling not appreciated, and that the "I don't give a shit' attitude is a cover. My advice to you is voice your opinion as often as you can when you are disrespected in order to invite change in the nursing field. I would also like to state its a little scary that you feel like you don't care about being a professional anymore. Healthcare reform is here. And nurses are asked to advance their degrees and start taking on more leadership roles. One way you could start helping is by standing up for yourself. I know there is a great person inside who truly cares. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-65127180038456968822015-01-11T04:45:27.792-08:002015-01-11T04:45:27.792-08:00YES. THIS.
One of my nurse friends, who's al...YES. THIS. <br /><br />One of my nurse friends, who's also a writer, posted this great quote by David Simon. He's the guy who created the shows <i>Homicide: Life on the Street</i> and <i>The Wire</i>; the former of those was based on a book of a similar name, after he spent a year as a reporter following around the Baltimore Homicide Department. <br /><br />The long and the short of it is that he went back to Baltimore Homicide ten years later and found that the cops that were still cops were the ones who'd figured out not to take it personally, while the cops who'd quit or been fired - especially the ones who had run screaming from the profession - were the ones who took every insult, every slight, every bad Manglement decision, even every day they served meatloaf in the work cafeteria, to be a personal affront. It didn't matter who was a good cop and who was a bad one. The one thing that mattered was whether or not they had the ability to shrug it off.<br /><br />Reading that changed my nursing career, and my life, for the better. It takes practice - sometimes daily practice, and i'm definitely not perfect at it. But it's been so much easier to deal with everything when i can keep myself at arm's length. k8noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-67564537357870721972014-12-19T08:16:13.915-08:002014-12-19T08:16:13.915-08:00I raise my voice with the chorus above. If you go ...I raise my voice with the chorus above. If you go bat shit crazy you are a detriment to your patient.Stefaniehttp://www.cowango.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-72956145955402275632014-12-19T08:08:48.283-08:002014-12-19T08:08:48.283-08:00I pretty much delete every email. I figure if it ...I pretty much delete every email. I figure if it is important someone needs to come tell me in person. Chennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-14051193347342730952014-12-18T17:14:28.133-08:002014-12-18T17:14:28.133-08:00I need to learn this.
As a first step toward lear...I need to learn this.<br /><br />As a first step toward learning this, I have decided to use "fang-dang" as an adjective at least once per day.yrsisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-16443683738613675772014-12-18T07:29:03.028-08:002014-12-18T07:29:03.028-08:00Agree! If the patient is alive and stable at the ...Agree! If the patient is alive and stable at the end of my shift I did a good job. I have worked with way too many nurses that focus on everything but the patient. Newer nurses are the worst!! but we all were there at one time!!<br /><br />Also, seasoned physicians I miss so much after working in a teaching facility with idiot interns/residents. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-15209434214897090522014-12-17T21:42:32.065-08:002014-12-17T21:42:32.065-08:00Love it! I have been practicing Not Giving a Shit...Love it! I have been practicing Not Giving a Shit myself. As long as all the patients are present and alive at the end of my shift, then all is good. "Not my circus, not my monkeys" is my other mantra.Enid Muellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590413455944374480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-38481364613131305992014-12-17T06:26:52.505-08:002014-12-17T06:26:52.505-08:00Excellent post! As others have pointed out, this p...Excellent post! As others have pointed out, this principle applies to every profession. Comradde PhysioProffenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-15353064988024697412014-12-17T05:51:58.261-08:002014-12-17T05:51:58.261-08:00This. So this. When my partner was in the ICU, act...This. So this. When my partner was in the ICU, actively circling the drain (thank God they figured out what was happening and stopped it, but at the time it was looking really bad), we had a nurse that pitched an absolute fit because another nurse, trying to be nice, had tidied up the room and put a clean towel on the table as a tablecloth of sorts, since we had several cups of cold water for bathing face/hands to try and make fevered body feel better and the cups dripped. This nurse was incensed that something like that was happening because 'it could be a vector for infection!!!!'. At that point, my partner was so septic that licking the floor would likely have caused no more infection. A clean towel keeping the table from becoming a big puddle was the last concern I had - and had this woman been clued in even a touch to your philosophy, she'd have just made a mental note to make sure the towel was taken away in a couple of hours, like I did. <br /><br />Making yourself crazy over small pointless things is a great way to burn out. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-67595325991737302882014-12-16T17:29:02.530-08:002014-12-16T17:29:02.530-08:00My ex school principal wife used to say, "no ...My ex school principal wife used to say, "no blood, no lawyers, no emergency"Silliyakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12357513229346986960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-77501459872098754552014-12-16T16:42:40.830-08:002014-12-16T16:42:40.830-08:00PS ~ my First law of nursing was always "If i...PS ~ my First law of nursing was always "If it ain't broke, don't 'fix' it!bobbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14353836074794786357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-72718754351236922842014-12-16T16:25:40.415-08:002014-12-16T16:25:40.415-08:00That might sound awful to JCAHO, or John Q. Public...That might sound awful to JCAHO, or John Q. Public ~<br />to those of us in the trenches, we know it means we know how to pick our battles. That we've figured out all angles, and where to take the ~ I hesitate to say "short-cuts" ~ <br /><br />DAMN smart nursing.bobbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14353836074794786357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833607.post-61856181815248453862014-12-16T16:07:29.887-08:002014-12-16T16:07:29.887-08:00It sounds somewhat like raising kids -- learn to p...It sounds somewhat like raising kids -- learn to pick your battles, stand your ground on what really matters. Every line of work has this, the stuff to really care about, and the stuff that will work itself out.messymimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10649529601786689712noreply@blogger.com