What can I do about the problems at the new job with other co-workers?
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Don't quit. When you find urself working with people like that, u must remember that at one time they were new. Sometimes people get intimidated by new employees because they feel that if they help u learn the job u will do better at it and they feel that u will take their position. Just do ur best with what u know and just look and learn as u go. good luck at ur job.
Punch them in the head.
Emotionally.
Tell your boss you enjoy the opportunity you are provided, however, you have one small problem. Explain to her that you want to learn, but you don't appear to be getting the training needed to do a good job.
-Ask her what she thinks about the situation. Don't bad mouth the two women. Be professional and explain you really need a mentor.
I'd invite these co-workers for coffee, tell them how much you hope you can learn from their experience and ask them to help you out so you can start being helpful to them. Tell them its hard to undertand whats going on, you see that they know so much more than you and you want more than anything to learn from them.
Then, when a particular situation arises where you don't know what to do you can appeal to them.
I would most certainly not go talk to your director until you've tried to resolve the situation with these co workers -- for all you know they don't realize they are supposed to help you -- they may think you already know as much as them, and in fact have different expectations from you -- one reason they may be short-tempered with you. After all, an ER seems to be a high stress environment.
If, after you've spoken about your needs and listened to their point of view, this terrible behavior continues, you can then go to the boss because you've already tried to resolve it on your own. You can tell your director that they don't think its within their responsibilities to show you the ropes, and remind him its up to him to enable the situation. Good luck -- I know this sounds hard.
Don't quit, that may be what they want. Before I started my current job I worked as a nurse. Old nurses didn't want to precept me correctly because they were scared of getting showed up. A young girl coming in can move around faster and show them up. That's not what I was trying to do at all, I wanted to learn from what I thought were the best. I made every effort, told them how excited I was to be working with such experience all that crap. Eventually I figured they weren't gonna teach me. I paid close attention when they did something for me, instead of showing me. I asked questions, and made them answer me. What I found out was, while they knew their job, they had no idea how to teach. I read my books and made up my mind that when you're dealing with peoples lives you can't bite your tongue. I told the head nurse, I'd learned a lot but I'd like to switch to a different preceptor and learn her way of doing things. Some jobs you can say to yourself, I'll figure it out on my own, some jobs you can't. The medical field is a job where you can't. Tell them you don't feel like you're learning. If they don't straighen up, tell. They get paid extra to teach they should be doing it. If you make a mistake and get sued in this sue happy nation you can't blame it on them. Good luck. FYI- - I didn't quit, I'm still a nurse and I keep up on my continuing education in case I decide to go back.
Just so happened something that I've always wanted to do came along and I went for it. Never quit because of someone else.
No one told what is well known throughout the United States Hospitals.
NURSES EAT THEIR YOUNGS.
How do you think I learned that?
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