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I’ll preface and say that I do not think nurses are dumb but there’s one nurse that I don’t know how she got through nursing school. I tried to be patient and thought maybe it’s a language barrier thing but I think the lights just aren’t on.

I had to explain to her how to turn on the bair hugger. She’s started playing with the tape when I was waiting to extubate my patient. She’s also tried strapping the arm done when I’m placing the BP cuff

She’s also had a hard time understanding what chair the surgeon wanted. Everyone in the room described it multiple ways to her and she didn’t get it. The chair they use for eyes. The chair that the hand surgeon uses.

It’s also not just the OR. Some had to explain to her that you can’t just take a smoothie from the kitchen. It belonged to someone. We don’t just have one random free smoothie sitting around

This nurse has been here for almost 6 months and it’s common sense stuff she should be able to get. I’m usually patient but she just drives me crazy

I moved to the Bronx for residency 3 years ago because I hate commuting. Since living here, my perception of the Bronx has changed. I don’t think that it deserves the hate it gets. I think the “problem” with the Bronx is that it’s filled with regular people, black and brown people. Stating the obvious, there’s also been a huge lack of investment because of it.

I recently moved from Belmont to around concourse village. The easy access to the city has made me considering buying something in the area because I think it’s only a matter of time before gentrification hits the Bronx.

The Bronx is also an easy drive to Queens and by proxy close to LGA. You’re also an easy drive or train to upstate or CT. There’s also a lot TREES and parks nearby.

Would purchasing something be adding to the problem or not? Just curious. I’m not a native New Yorker

I’ve hit so many roadblocks over the last ten years and I’m feeling like this whole thing isn’t worth. Every step of the journey has been unnecessarily hard. I feel like people around me just skate by, are given grace, exceptions and I’m not given the same opportunity.

I feel like something is wrong with me. People can look at the various things that have happened to me and say that wasn’t fair or it’s not right but nobody wants to stand up for me

I try to advocate for myself but I’m ignored. Even in daily interactions people talk over me, cut me off or ignore what I say.

I feel like I’m constantly being punished for some unknown reason. I’ve had to repeat a year of school, reapply to residency, now I’m extending for a requirement that nobody has actually completed. My co-resident who was in worse shape than me is being forced to do the same thing but she’s being paid to sit at home because she’s been stripped of her clinical privileges. She was a problem the whole time and ia still being rewarded in the end. Meanwhile, I have to take call. I have to go to lectures. I have to go to M&Ms.

I’m at the point where I want to get my certificate then figure out something else to do with my life. I feel like the emotional pain (I’ve had various points where I want to go to sleep and not wake up) and the disappointment of things never working out is too much.

My program has offered me the opportunity to extend to “complete” my research project. What complete entails is unknown and I have asked for clarification. Long story short, research was not enforced in the previous years(people flat out didn’t do it or took over a project — we were banned from taking over projects). Last year, we were told it was a requirement but exceptions were made for virtually every resident. I had issues with getting my project approved by the IRB committee (my PI was anal and also ghosted me for like a month) so I got my approval in May. Like this May when I started in December.

I asked my PD numerous times if there was a possibility that I would be extended due the issues with research and was told no. I received an email about an HR meeting in May to discuss research and was accused of violating HIPAA. Allegedly, another faculty member, my PI, arranged the meeting without the PD knowledge. The HIPAA thing was dropped because it was illegitimate so whatever.

I got the unofficial word from my PD that they found the money to pay me so that I could stay. I’m pissed off and a little hurt that my PD chose to go along with this. If you want to enforce your rules, we have no handbook or access to one btw, fine but I asked numerous times if this was a possibility and was told no. Now, I’m grappling with the fact that I’m going to be homeless because I didn’t make plans to extend my lease nor do I have money for a deposit. I’ve considered taking out a personal loan to attempt to cover this expense but it’s just frustrating that I’m being held to standard that didn’t exist until I guess this year

Maybe things could worse, they could be trying to get me terminated like my co-resident.

Not really looking for advise but just pissed

So essentially, I stormed out of the OR after giving a particularly shitty handoff(lowkey, I kinda threw my lead at the person and said the patient was stable, no allergies, no pressor, 1 bag of fluid and everything is charted) because the call person came two hours a late. The junior residents have a habit of showing up HOURS late for their calls.

Long story short, our call schedule is no longer the purview of the residents because two people complained that it wasn’t fair so rotation people have to come back for call. The seniors, my cohort, are the only people who come on time because professionalism. Anyway, the junior residents on rotation that will hang back on their rotation to avoid coming back to the OR for call.

People have complains about being in the long case as first call or being in the late case with a TB patient. People have also complained about not being relieved on time but will sit around for hours or get an attitude when they’re told to get people out even if they’re on call