Seeking advice for New grad
Hello! Ok so I’m a new grad ER nurse and wanted some advice regarding how to handle when floor nurses are giving me a hard time during report. I clocked in yesterday and hit the floor running, I was doing my best to document as I go but there were a lot of situations where I was treating the pt first and wasn’t getting a chance to document prior to running into another room.
Long story short, it’s time to give report to the floor nurse and before I even get a word out her coworker starts ripping my charting apart saying “you need to validate these vital, they better get the rest of their meds before you send them up” just bitching the entire time. I had the meds sitting right in front of me and I was going to give them prior to sending them up. It wasn’t even the RN taking report it was another nurse who was giving me a hard time. Idk if she was the charge or just a peer but my first reaction was wanting to throw back attitude but I’m trying very hard to stay professional. I ended up saying “well if you can let me start report, I would’ve told you these meds are sitting in front of me and I was going to give them prior to sending them up regardless”. They didn’t say anything after that and the RN taking report was nice and the salty RN just stayed quiet.
I guess I’m trying to find ways to handle these situations better, I understand every floor is busy but I can’t send the pt wrapped up in a bow. I’m getting questioned by my charge why they’re not upstairs yet. While simultaneously getting push back from the upstairs RNs. It’s just very frustrating.
Posted Jul 13, 2026, 10:47 AM UTC