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Originally Posted by KimRN
I was "adopted" by a Coronary Care Unit as a relative new grad with only three months med/surg experience, so I was quite lucky.
I make it a point to give positive feedback to new nurses and find out the latest in techniques from them.
Precepting takes a special personality, and not all of the older, burnt out just-doing-this-until-I-get-to-retirement nurses have that personality!  |
why is there this *assumption* that if you are an older nurse you are *burnt out just-doing-this-until-I-get-to-retirement*?? I think we have plenty of older experienced nurses with a lot to offer. Too often they are discounted just becasue they ARE older. They are seen as *burnt out* by new young nurses who really have no idea what *burnt out* really is. Sometimes I think we need to step back and re-evaluate what we are thinking about others.