The Act
Understaffed hospitals should be "very" thankful to affiliating nursing schools for it is by student nurses they can compensate their lack of manpower. Little chores like charting, IV regulating (and any other therapeutic procedures), assisting patients, medicine preparation and administration, vital signs taking, and close monitoring are of a very big help to them. So why do they act sourly? The only difference between us is that they just got their license earlier than we student nurses have to. I see a lot of staff nurses trying to inferiorate one of my kind and I can't put the blame to my fellows when sometimes they try to be insubordinate. Staff nurses should be of hospitals instrument, second to our CI, in teaching us to be efficient and effective for us to join the workforce in the future.
The Deed
Student nurses, once in their white gala/tux clothes plus their shimmering pins/caps and nameplates, tend to acquire god-complexes and perform bitchy deeds.(e.g. Walk across the street as if no vehicle can bump their black assess dead; talk like Queen Elizabeth's heir or as if they're from a supreme deity who must be bowed or kneeled at.) In one occasion, a doctor was having rounds in his casual wear; this doctor are not one of those you usually spot in the ward unlike whom you've seen in their Lacostes', Prada's, Louis Vuitton's etc.; reading one of his patient's charts, a student nurse approached and demonically said, "Excuse me!That was my patient's chart. Why are you reading it?". Baffled, the doctor smilingly said,"She's my patient, I'm her doctor". Sometimes, we students are so consumed by our pride that we tend to have delusions of grandeur. One of the greatest person I've known in my student life once said, "Nursing is not a glamorous job, contrary to what you knew".
Say you're already a nurse and you are off duty, truly your responsibility doesn't end but only it has some limitations. Visiting a family member, a relative, or simply a friend in a hospital; let's say in an institution wherein your resume was denied; you do not have the right to manipulate or handle or question any therapeutic interventions the nurse on duty will perform to your buddy or mate for it is unethical to do it as per nursing code of ethics dictates, not unless the procedure is absurd or life threatening. Under the list of employees in a hospital, always think that whatever error they will commit, it is their license which will be in jeopardy not yours (Theory of Egoism). Sometimes, registered nurses only wants to brag (e.g. Hey!I have a license too and I can perform your job better.)and they want their colleague to know that they're a nurse too. Remember, they have also acquired their license in the same way you did. So if you're already a nurse and plans to visit anyone you know in a hospital wherein you are not affiliated with, please have a sense of self-control.
