Nurses That Eat Their Young

Today's the third time I've come home crying since starting my job back in June.

My list of complaints:

• Don't bitch to me about how long I'm staying after my shift ends -- I know I'm behind and it's usually because I don't want YOU to get behind with things I haven't done and then later have YOU bitch me out because, "oh she didn't do this..."
  
• Don't tell me my assessment is wack if you haven't bothered to actually assess the patient yet. Or HELL, don't tell me off when you never assess the patient at all! Don't think I don't find out! I know, bitch, I know -- the patients always ask me why I'm in there listening and checking on their asses in the middle of the night when "the other nurse never did that!" Furthermore, you have no license to call my assessment inaccurate when you're charting CLEAR BILATERAL BREATH SOUNDS ON A PATIENT THAT IS MISSING ONE LUNG. YOU CAN'T HAVE BREATH SOUNDS ON BOTH SIDES IF SOMEONE'S ONLY GOT ONE LUNG, BITCH. I'm not trying to be a smart ass, but if you think you hear something, why don't you chart it as a referred ventilation instead? Because that's what it actually is.
  
• Don't complain to me for having to hang runs of potassium. I know potassium is a pain in the ass, but we get our labs back at 5:30am, and I can't hang 4 runs over the last part of the shift unless I want to send someone into asystole.
• Especially don't bitch at me about having to hang runs of potassium after you forgot to administer a drip during your shift and left it hanging on my IV pole without the bag even being punctured to be tapped into the IV tubing. Usually when you chart you've done something -- you've already done it (or should be actively giving it). Not have left it hanging on a pole unadministered.
• Please don't tell me my patient assignment is a piece of cake -- honey, because you didn't call for a doctor to come during the day when you had SUSPECTED SEIZURE ACTIVITY initially. I had to stat paging the medical house to come up and assess the patient and then give seizure meds after he conferred with a neurologist. Don't forget, I did BOTH of your fucking patients baths when I was only obligated to do one on top of getting the other patient intubated, sedated, and their meds switched over to a form that can be given through an NG tube. I had those patients neat and tidy by the time you got in so that you're not swamped in shit like I was -- sure, it's a piece of cake once all those things are taken care of, right?
  

You may not realize it as lay people visiting loved ones at a hospital, but nursing is very much a team effort, and if you don't like the team you're on -- you just can't do it very well. Bad employee morale just makes it worse and I'm getting to my breaking point. I don't want to be one of the bitter and jaded nurses that work on my unit at such a young age. Nor do I want to be the topic of heated gossip above a patient's sedated and ventilated body.

Give me a break and just let me be. I want to get through the next 4 months without being permanently scarred for life so that I can move back to the hospital I love without battle wounds. I hate nurses that eat their young.