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Split your Side Laughing- You'll Never Look at a Student Nurse the Same! A Young Nursing Student in Big City, California Recounts Hilarious, Disgusting and Poignant Stories from her Time at the Bedside.

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Here is one particularly crazy post:

Hubris

Hubris: Overbearing pride or presumption; Arrogance

One day I was working with a nurse who frankly looked a bit shell-shocked. She must have been either very new or completely overwhelmed by her caseload.

At the beginning of a shift, I told her that I had done some charting on the patient's chart. Students are expected to chart, so this was very normal.

In a slightly snobby tone she said, "Well, you can chart for yourself on a separate piece of paper, but I will do the real charting."

The Student Nurse's ego takes many blows through the learning process. But to be denied grunt work because I was considered inadequate for even this job?

From a place of hurt and resentment swelled the Learner's greatest enemy: Hubris.

While locking her into my fiery glare I tore up my charting, slowly, piece by piece. I wanted her to know I was angry about this snub.

I put the chart back where it belonged and went on with my day.

Later in the day while I was reviewing that same chart for a medicine order, I realized that I had torn up not my carefully detailed notes, but the notes that she had spent all night charting.

How could I have been so stupid? I wanted to tape a "Kick Me" sign to my back. Maybe self-flagellation would avoid some of the reign of fire that would inevitably come from the nurse and (oh no) my instructor.

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