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College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA) Discussion Forum: General Discussion: Nurses who eat their young:"In response to Nurses eating their young. Unfortunately this issue is universal. I trained and worked in the Canadian system for many years. I now live and work in Australia. The same issues arise downunder. What are the characteristics of a nurse? Is it something learned by the level of education? I know many well educated nurses who have graduated from university programs many have the same identified traits you have described. I know it is easy to blame increased work loads and staff constraints or lack of education. Mentoring, respecting,supporting and valuing each other irregardless of work or educational experience are the beginnings of finding a resolution. Whether you are a graduate from a 2 yr or 4 yr program then becomes irrelevant."
http://www.nurses.ab.ca/discus/messages/1/30.html?1017629135

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Do Men Have a Role in Maternal-Newborn Nursing? The Male Student Nurse Experience, Gayle Cudé, PhD, RN:"The well-discussed nursing phenomenon known as "eating our young" refers to the lack of support provided to new graduates by experienced nurses. Is there also a phenomenon of "eating our young male students" in the obstetrics rotation before they graduate? Such gender issues became acute in one nursing research seminar in which half the enrolled students were male. Three of these men expressed interest in careers in maternal-newborn nursing. This article offers personal insight from these male students in addition to a summary of the literature."
Lifelines@awhonn.org
Patricia Chojnicki Sage Publications
2455 Teller Rd. Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Phone: (805) 499-0721 X7160 Fax: (805) 499-8096
E-mail: advertising@sagepub.com
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1091592304269633

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Frances Johnson, ND, RNC, NNP, Andrew's University:"All of us had to learn the ropes sometime. Nursing is sometimes acused of "eating our young" because we are not very patient with the novice. When students complete our program I hope they can say they went to a school where Jesus was present in every class and clinical, and in the manner of each faculty."
Frances Johnson, ND, RNC, NNP
Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Programs
Marsh Hall (Second Floor)
Office: 211 Phone Ext. 3192
Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104
francesj@andrews.edu
1-800-253-2874
http://www.andrews.edu/NRSG/fjohnson.html

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Do Nurses Really Eat Their Young? by Donna Cardillo, RN, MA:"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this any more. This famous line was spoken by Peter Finch in the 1976 movie classic Network. It also conveys how I feel about the fact that some of my colleagues love to perpetuate the notion that nurses eat their young. This vile expression implies that experienced nurses do not treat new nurses kindly. My first problem with the statement is that it's a generalization implying that all nurses are like that. Interestingly, whenever I hear someone utter the expression, I always say, "I don't do that. Do you?" The person making the statement always says, "Oh no, I don't, but many others do." I've never heard even one nurse own up to doing this, although some nurses are willing to indict the entire profession. Every time that statement is repeated, it causes harm and casts a dark shadow on every nurse. Say anything enough, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Cardillo & Associates
PO Box 15, Sea Girt, NJ 08750 USA
Phone 1-732-449-9666 / 1-800-801-5796
Fax: 1-732-556-0386
http://www.dcardillo.com/articles/eatyoung.html

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Students' Corner: Nurses eating nurses: The caring profession which fails to nurture its own! Leanne Davey, Contemporary Nurse:"Experienced nurses who are already working in stressful conditions with continuous staff shortages and poor recognition of service see the student nurse sometimes as an extra hindrance to their already increasing workload. Student nurses are theoretically competent but lack the clinical expertise and experience to complement this knowledge which can also add to the professional pressure that experience nurses encounter. Most nurses would like to see themselves, as promoters of nursing but are frustrated and disillusioned with their profession. It would seem then that student nurses as a result of this dissatisfaction are often devoured by some nurses instead of being encouraged and nurtured in their enthusiasm for nursing."
http://www.contemporarynurse.com/13-2p192.htm

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Taking "bold voices" home—and to heart - In Our Unit Critical Care Nurse:"Because of the nursing shortage, nursing must depend on new or less experienced nurses for staffing. Our unit wanted to provide an atmosphere that transitioned the newer staff in a safe, nurturing way. We wanted to ensure that nursing's reputation for "eating their young" didn't carry over into our unit and that new nurses wouldn't be allowed to simply "sink or swim." We wanted our new colleagues to be recognized immediately as a part of the team."
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NUC/is_6_23/ai_111697013

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Singular Outlook, Barbara Sheeler, John Hopkins Nursing:"I was scared as a new grad going on that unit," admits Sheeler. "It's intimidating. You know nothing. School is not anything like the real world. And you hear all these stories about nurses eating their young, that it's sink or swim, and pay your dues. That it's very cut-throat and make-you-cry time." But her fears were quickly calmed. "Honestly, I was embraced, I was nurtured," says Sheeler. Her preceptors even wanted to cut short her 12-week orientation.
The Johns Hopkins University and Health System
720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21205 USA
careers@jhmi.edu
http://www.hopkinsnursing.org/meet-nurses/singular.html

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Choosing Nursing, Anne Katz, RN, PhD, Editor, Lifelines:"We talk glibly about nurses eating our young—but why do we not try to stop these behaviors? When we focus exclusively on the negative aspects of the workplace, are we destroying the spirits of our young colleagues? Yes, there are problems in our hospitals and clinics. Many of these have been created by forces over which we as nurses have no control. By complaining without working toward the solution, we become part of the problem. How could we possibly expect our sons and daughters to be interested in becoming nurses if all they hear is how terrible it is?"
Lifelines@awhonn.org
Patricia Chojnicki Sage Publications
2455 Teller Rd. Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Phone: (805) 499-0721 X7160 Fax: (805) 499-8096
E-mail: advertising@sagepub.com
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1552-6356.2004.tb00178.x

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Why Do Authors Eat Their Young? Commentary by Laurel Johnson, Funeral Associates:"How can we hope to continue attracting nurses to the field when nursing has such a history of 'eating their young'?" By that, the nursing hierarchy meant that historically, experienced nurses do not nurture and mentor new graduates. Instead, inexperienced nurses were the object of gossip and ridicule, to their faces and behind their backs. Already insecure new graduates were often devastated by such treatment and moved from job to job or left the field altogether. That had not changed when I retired from Nursing and moved on to literary pursuits. My thinking at the time was that at least writers would be supportive of each other and share their experiences in a positive way, give new writers a leg up so to speak. In many cases, I was wrong. Many in the literary field are no more inclined than nursing to nurture their young."
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewBlog.asp?authorid=5792

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Interior Rededication Rita H. Losee, RN, ScD, NursingSpectrum.com:"Recently, I spoke at the Nursing Spectrum Career Fitness® Expo in Boston. As part of the session, I asked participants to name the number one problem that they saw in nursing. The responses were almost evenly divided between those who saw the staffing shortage as primary and those who saw the “nurses eat their young” attitude as being the most problematic. My own response to these perceptions was that these problems are the ying and yang of the nursing shortage. One feeds the other in an ever-downward spiral."
Nursing Spectrum- Continuing Education
2002 Renaissance Blvd. #120 King of Prussia, PA 19406
(610) 275-4100
http://nsweb.nursingspectrum.com/cfforms/GuestLecture/InteriorRededication.cfm

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Things You Can Do to Help Relieve the RN Shortage Rita H. Losee, RN, MEd, ScD, NursingSpectrum.com:"Stop denigrating nursing and nurses. Many nurses focus on how terrible nursing is as a career. Even worse, they bad-mouth other nurses, spreading a virus of disrespect and dishonor to the profession. Yes, there are huge problems that need to be overcome, but the energy expended in denigrating others could be positively focused. Comments like “Nurses eat their young” — often uttered with a perverse sense of pride — deter others from entering the profession. We nurses have spent far too much time arguing about issues dividing us and too little time learning how we can support and encourage one another."
Nursing Spectrum- Continuing Education
2002 Renaissance Blvd. #120 King of Prussia, PA 19406
(610) 275-4100
http://nsweb.nursingspectrum.com/cfforms/GuestLecture/ThingsYouCanDo.cfm

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The Spirit Within, Cynthia Saver, RN, MS, NursingSpectrum.com:"Despite all the talk about nurses “eating their young,” I’m optimistic that we’ll pick the nurturing over the destroying option. Once again I trace my optimism back to our nominees for Nurse of the Year. It’s as easy to catch the spirit that they, and many other nurses, show as it is to catch a cold in a roomful of people with the sniffles and a raspy cough."
Nursing Spectrum- Continuing Education
2002 Renaissance Blvd. #120 King of Prussia, PA 19406
(610) 275-4100
http://nsweb.nursingspectrum.com/cfforms/GuestLecture/TheSpiritWithin.cfm

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The Nurse/Patient Ratio by Genevieve M. Clavreul RN, Ph.D.:"The New Year heralds many things, and this year brings legislation mandating a patient/nurse ratio in California. But after the confetti stops falling, did we get what we want? We now have a panacea for thousands of nurses in California, however, the ratio really can’t be enforced. (At the writing of this article the companion bill for enforcement is stalled in the legislature, having been defeated at least once already). As my children are fond of saying, “why am I not surprised?” Having been a nurse for almost 30 years, most of those years spent in the NICU/PICU, I am used to working with a strict nurse/patient ratio. ICU’s and a few other areas of nursing have always been under the control of an “acuity” system. Actually, all nursing is supposed to be, but we all know this isn’t always the case. For this reason, I knew in my heart that legislating a nurse/patient ratio was probably an exercise in futility."
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Tel:(213)385-4781, Fax:(213)385-3782, WorkingNurse@WorkingWorld.com
http://www.workingworld.com/magazine/viewarticle.asp?articleno=253&wn=1

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Preparing for Battle: What YOU can do for YOU, Sicker patients, reduced staffing, longer hours, and increased responsibilities—by Deborah Lynne, RN, BSN:"As Registered Nurses, few of us think of the hospital we work in as a battlefield, or of ourselves as soldiers. But the truth is, there are more similarities than you might think. We show up for our shift each day, not knowing what challenges we might encounter. Our job requires us to be in the moment at all times, and to make split second decisions on the run. What we do or don’t do can mean the difference between life and death. We often work under extreme stress, yet must remain calm and in control. Although there are others who function in a supportive capacity, we are the ones on the frontline."
Working Nurse, Working World Magazine
3600 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1526 Los Angeles, CA 90010
Tel:(213)385-4781, Fax:(213)385-3782, WorkingNurse@WorkingWorld.com
http://www.workingworld.com/magazine/viewarticle.asp?articleno=255&wn=1

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