I’m a RN (registered nurse), my hospital offered me to to become a Wound Care Nurse. They would cover 80% of the cost, so I’d end paying 20% of it.
Why scared you ask?
I’ve worked at several units at my hospital and I invariably met a majority of childish coworkers and a minority of the good ones, a minority from whom I’d always learn something, but most were and are just immature.
Immature behaviors include caring more about going smoking together and talking like teenagers about who dated who or whose ex is coming momentarily to work at the unit, yelling like they were in a bar, promising the manager when I first come to the unit to show me around and to actually teach me something during my training to do a complete 180 when the manager leaves, ignoring me, being passive aggressive, talking about nothing job related, while ignoring calling patients, or being outright hostile when I ask who is going to take care of what patients so I can organize my shift and start to work. Usually, if you work in a unit with those characters and you are the responsible one, you end up doing your job AND theirs, but I don’t see a dime more.
Complaining to management didn’t change anything. They usually side with the majority, because it’s easier for them.
What I fear is having to work with any of these characters during my certification because I don’t trust them and I don’t want to be treated unfairly (getting a lower score) just because the person who examines me has beef with me.
For this to work I need people, teachers and mentors who take it as seriously as I do. I’ve already quit several units because this wasn’t the case.
The most important question is. Do you want to become a wound care specialist?
If so it is a no brainer to take this deal.
The next question is what is your obligation after you accept this deal? My organization does a two for one deal. For every year the organization pays for school you owe the organization two years.
If that obligation is acceptable to you than even if you run into the malignant people you described, how long would it be before you could leave?
Many many many moons ago I wanted to become a RN just to do something useful with my sparetime and started the education. First 3 months of Theory was great, learned a lot and had fun. Then the practical learning in hospital part came and the two responsible for me hated me. A 2m man becoming a RN? In that time it was already enough to dislike me. After some weeks I knew what their judgment about my abilities would be (they told me), so I just quit and told them I’d go back to just playing videogames and being rich and suddenly their opinion shifted instantly. I hate people.
Long story short, I dunno what to actually suggest. I’m just glad to see that some are taking this job seriously, as it is a very important one, albeit very unthankful and underpaid too. So, thanks for being one of them. It is appreciated.
Generally I find the staff who are educators care more about the proffesion than the usual layabouts, but always exception to the rules. Just play the game and smile, transferable skills are always worthwhile. Unfortunately in healthcare the patients are the easy part
… transferable skills are always worthwhile…
This was my immediate thought, too. Sucks OP is being asked to cover 20%, but it’s certainly better than nothing. In the end, the new skillset could help in finding a new, and hopefully better, work environment/employer.
