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[grimalkinrn]

I'm having a really hard time with feeling depressed and worthless lately. I feel like I generally annoy everyone around me and I really wish it wasn't a mandatory thing that I go outside and interact with people. Every day starts to get a little harder lately

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[propernice]

It's a mandatory preceptor class. Remember when I said ADNs aren't allowed to precept? We still have to take the mandatory class.

How much fucking sense does THAT make?

ugh, I'm sorry things suck right now, love.

[grimalkinrn]

It makes even more sense when you realize I've precepted 10 nurses. Which means... wait for it.... I took the preceptor class 2 years ago. I have to take it again.

[propernice]

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[scarybaldguy]

Makes about as much sense as your comment on my LJ. WTF, hospital admins?

[grimalkinrn]

The driving thing makes sense to me because people underestimate how difficult driving will be the first time after surgery. It's going to be fucking exhausting because you don't realize just how many small, precise moves your neck muscle makes.

I took this class three years ago, back when I was precepting continuously. Now the rule is we have to take it every two years. Because you totes forget how to teach anyone.

[scarybaldguy]

Bah. That's what House's Little Helpers are for.

[grimalkinrn]

IT IS ILLEGAL FOR A HOSPITAL TO RELEASE YOU IF THEY THINK YOU ARE GOING TO DRIVE ON NARCOTICS. Your nurse could actually lose their license or go to jail.

This one's really important to me, because I got rearended by a guy, drugged to the hilt, still in his hospital booties.He gave the cop false information, and because it was in freaking Delta, I had to eat the damages.

(she said as if she'd ever bother to replace the bumper cover on her car)

[jailhouseturkey]

what is precepting? sorry i've not heard that term before.

i hope things start looking up for you at work soon!!

[grimalkinrn]

It means training new nurses.

[grimalkinrn]

Precepting = training new nurses.

[laika_came_home]

I can only imagine because of the saturation of nursing schools in your area and thus an available hiring pool of BSNs, that your hospital is so prickish about having an ADN. I'm sorry that they are treating you like an idiot who needs retraining

[grimalkinrn]

I knew you'd absolutely get it. There may be a plethora of BSN new grads to pick from, but I think the hospital's goal is to keep experienced nurses in their current jobs as long as possible. So I'll be slogging it out on med surg a while longer, since all the jobs in the hospital now require a BSN to transfer into them. It's ridiculous, because what really makes a hospital better ARE STAFFING RATIOS, NOT NURSING DEGREES.

Ug.

I agree with you that people in management should have higher degrees, especially because running a hospital requires more education, but if we passed the same boards, and I've been at the place for 6 years with a good record, I really should be able to change departments if I'm qualified. AND I AM SO OVER QUALIFIED FOR MY JOB AT THIS POINT, IT'S SAD.