Just a quick update since it's been a while. I'm currently jumping through the hoops of hospital orientation at the new place. I haven't been working any agency or PRN shifts while going through this change, so I haven't touched a neonate in weeks at this point. As a result, the primary source of my material has dried up, but only temporarily. I'll start direct care again with a preceptor in the next few days.
Meanwhile, a little food for thought. This old post from Street Watch (one of my favorite EMS blogs) is on precepting. It's a funny feeling to go from preceptor at one hospital to preceptee at another, so it's been on my mind a little. Wouldn't it be nice if all of us had preceptors like Peter? If a new nurse could go in and be assured that "I will never badmouth you" and nothing more than that, how different would our profession seem to newbies?
Perhaps it should be a pledge when we get our pins. Like the Doctors have to pledge to first do no harm. First "Don't bad mouth each other." That would change the dynamics of a lot of things.
ReplyDeleteGeez, that would change the whole ballgame! This is taking away the whole 'nurses eating their young' thing. *falling over clutching my chest!*
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