http://scrubsmag.com/working-with-lifers/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://scrubsmag.com/working-with-lifers/#comment-805 cbender Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:21:52 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=5189#comment-805 Thank You. I am one of those lifers, I guess, been around the unit a time a or two. I have 25 years plus in ER, acute care and home health and hospice, and I do a lot of preceptorship for new grads. I never cared for it. The preceptorship, that is. I felt like 'why me', and the answer was always, well you know how to orient people, your good at it, blah, blah, blah, it's extra work and it took away from my patient care. That is why I didn't like it. But the last bunch of grads, 2 or 3 I 've trained have actually told me things I didn't like hearing. Like I want to be like you when I grow up. I hope I can be the nurse you are. This bothered me. I knew I did OK, but this really bugged me. Was it the age thing? I didn't realize until long after they had gone on to other avenues, that I felt like this because, I would go through all this work, pour my heart into those kids and they moved on. Ha, want to be like me, no way, you left. Then I realized they are taking something of me with them, somthing I taught them that they didn't get in school will be with them forever, throughout their careers, wherever that may be, and suddenly, I feel so much better about teaching new grads, a piece of my nursing, my heart may reach so many more people and patients than just the ones I touch. My moment of clarity after 25 years of nursing. WOW. Thank You. I am one of those lifers, I guess, been around the unit a time a or two. I have 25 years plus in ER, acute care and home health and hospice, and I do a lot of preceptorship for new grads. I never cared for it. The preceptorship, that is. I felt like ‘why me’, and the answer was always, well you know how to orient people, your good at it, blah, blah, blah, it’s extra work and it took away from my patient care. That is why I didn’t like it. But the last bunch of grads, 2 or 3 I ‘ve trained have actually told me things I didn’t like hearing. Like I want to be like you when I grow up. I hope I can be the nurse you are. This bothered me. I knew I did OK, but this really bugged me. Was it the age thing? I didn’t realize until long after they had gone on to other avenues, that I felt like this because, I would go through all this work, pour my heart into those kids and they moved on. Ha, want to be like me, no way, you left. Then I realized they are taking something of me with them, somthing I taught them that they didn’t get in school will be with them forever, throughout their careers, wherever that may be, and suddenly, I feel so much better about teaching new grads, a piece of my nursing, my heart may reach so many more people and patients than just the ones I touch. My moment of clarity after 25 years of nursing. WOW.

]]> http://scrubsmag.com/working-with-lifers/#comment-651 amanda Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:47:21 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=5189#comment-651 This was a really great, very well written post! We can all learn from "lifers," and we should all be excited about being a "lifer" someday! :) Again, thanks for the fabulous post! This was a really great, very well written post! We can all learn from “lifers,” and we should all be excited about being a “lifer” someday! Again, thanks for the fabulous post!

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]]> http://scrubsmag.com/working-with-lifers/#comment-649 Sean Dent Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:53:14 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=5189#comment-649 Prisca Wow. I'm speechless at your keen sense and understanding. So many new nurses take the 'lifer's traits and turn them into something dark and dreary. You have seen the forest through the trees and I congratulate you. I'm 'seasoned' and I'm still striving to be like the 'lifer'. It's a foundation we all should work towards and build upon. GREAT blog post. Prisca
Wow. I’m speechless at your keen sense and understanding. So many new nurses take the ‘lifer’s traits and turn them into something dark and dreary. You have seen the forest through the trees and I congratulate you.
I’m ‘seasoned’ and I’m still striving to be like the ‘lifer’. It’s a foundation we all should work towards and build upon.
GREAT blog post.

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