One Of The Saddest Things I've Seen... Can't Stop Laughing

4 So I went to work yesterday and our two new grads with less than a year of experience were precepting two new grads! I'm sorry but it's so sad. I just can't stop laughing. There's no more room for outrage anymore. One of them just makes me crazy. She leaves things half way done and we have to clean up after her sometimes when she leaves. Talk about cheap labor. I actually want to tell my patients to run for the nearest exit! I'm so sorry I just can't stop laughing! Look what healthcare has come to! (It's not really funny, but what can you do? I mean who in their right minds would authorize this? Like I said, there is just no more room for outrage. Sometimes you just have to laugh. I'm not in the US anymore. I mean you have two brand new nurse's practicing under the license of two fairly new nurses). He He He He!!! Last edit by NewTexasRN on Jun 7, '11 : Reason: Clarification.
Did you offer to precept one of them instead?

hahaa yeaI've been a nurse for 1 year old July 1st. So last summer when i was getting oriented my preceptor was also a charge nurse. He was amazing preceptor, it worked out great. i hated when he was charge nurse cause then i got placed with this other nurse who was a new grad of 5 months!!!!!!! she was a graduate of the december before i graduated and had just gotten off orientation like a month ago. it was awful awful... my preceptor pulled me aside one day and was like "Whatever she tells you that sounds a little 'off' just ignore it" She spent 1 hour doing an assessment on each of ours patients. there is no reason an assessment needs to take 1 hour!!!!! so we would spent like 3-4 hours doing assessments and were constantly behind on everything else because of this. It was all because she was fearful of missing something and "losing her license"yea, not the best idea for a new grad to orient a new grad. its basically the blind leading the blind.

instead of laughing help them

I barely finished the sentence and fell out too. ROTFLMAO! We are gonna get lynched for this yanno? But I'm sorry, too darn funny. Lmao! *tears*

We had a two week old nursing assistant training a new nursing assistant the other week...they actually had her assigned two of them! So, I took one away..but talk about blind leading blind..

Quote from kloneDid you offer to precept one of them instead?

Its so unfortunate that nurses would find humor in this posting. In times like these is when a seasoned nurse steps in a gives a helping hand! Laughing just does not cut it, these are real lives that these novice nurses are working with and it could be anyones family, sister, mother, brother, or uncle in the bed. The FUNNY thing about this story is maybe one day one of these new grads could be rendering care to you. Would you still be laughing then? LOL.

I am surprised that you are surprised?! This is quite common, not just LTC, but in Hospital, Home Health, Hospice -- EVERYWHERE. It's bad, no joke. But it it's not seen as unusual at all anymore. I personally know several NGs who were either precepted by an NG, or had very little orientation at all. One I know was almost thrown under the bus by a just past 6-7 month old NG stand-in preceptor, tried to get her fired (said she was insubordinate - this from a 22-3 year old's bratty little mouth none the less). Another I know (at a level one trauma center, GSWs, knifings, etc.) usually is left to figure stuff out on her own. She was hired full time PT, as were all the other ER NGs she was hired with. She says she gets stuck, looks around and sees just NGs. There are usually a few experienced nurses working the big Ts, so, she can't get any kind of mentoring as they are busy or refuse. Those are just two of the stories I know

Quote from Jazdani4instead of laughing help them

I'm not so sure this is really all that funny, but I guess it is what it is. I'm not going to ramble on about what should be done because I am just a Nursing Student myself, but it seems to me like there should be a better way to train the new graduate nurses, and I'm also not sure laughing hysterically is going to solve anything either.

The residents at that facility deserve MUCH better than what I've read in the original post.

Quote from Steve_eI'm not so sure this is really all that funny, but I guess it is what it is. I'm not going to ramble on about what should be done because I am just a Nursing Student myself, but it seems to me like there should be a better way to train the new graduate nurses, and I'm also not sure laughing hysterically is going to solve anything either.