WEll, I got a little fed up with being the total support person for a year for the new nurse...and stressed by all the stuff going on at work...so I applied and was accepted for a new position. I'm gonna be a casemanager. I'll still be a nurse, just the go-to person for arranging home health, hospice, rehab, and lots of other marginal duties. So, my co-workers are looking at me like I'm a turn coat...I was even told I was no longer a "real nurse".
So, am I only a "real nurse" when I am handing out meds, mediating with a family, doing teaching, fielding orders and phone calls and all those things. Why is it if you arn't wiping bottoms and giving bed-baths you arn't a "real nurse". And speaking of that, why is it that the people who think you arn't a "real nurse" are the very people who won't "touch" a patient, unless they have no other choice...and pick your brains to pieces...but consider their-selves a "real nurse". Education is not what makes you a real nurse...caring is what makes you a real nurse. I think I can do a great job of caring, and helping people learn to care for themselves.
If I am not able to learn to do this new job, I'm sure their will be plenty of "real nurse" jobs for me to go back to.
On the flip side, my honey is looking forward to me being home nights and weekends. :)
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OMG! I can't believe someone had the audacity to say you aren't a real nurse. Geez and WHAT have you been doing all those other years and how dare they say something of that nature. The job you are now taking IS in the field of nursing and IS desperately needed for the families and it IS in the medical field. People get stupid... but that's because of jealousy. Don't give it a second thought!
A nurse is a nurse is a nurse. Maybe this new position will be just the thing for you. You sound very capable of juggling things for everyone.
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