hubris?

No school for me last night; no point. The exam is tomorrow; I'll go show my face tonight, and make sure I'm not missing anything. It's so damn simple, though. I wish I could have figured out how to do the preparation myself.

I'm amazed what a difference it has made academically to go back to the truck full time. I made next to no academic progress for nearly a year after getting my license. Granted, I was busy learning how to be a nurse.

A friend of mine, who has been a nurse for about a year, was complaining to me yesterday about feeling abused at work. She'd worked triage, and several times, she'd had to argue for her judgment calls with the nurses in the back. I felt badly for her. Nobody from the medical or nursing staff has really given me a hard time in quite a while. I'd like to think that it's because I've gained their confidence as a clinician, but I think it's more accurate to say that they've decided that it's not worth it to get me torqued up. I wish I could say the same for the ancillary staff; a few of them are wonderful, and a great many of them work harder at avoiding work than at performing it. And their pain threshold is much higher than that of the nursing staff. All it takes to get the average nurse or physician to stop bullying is direct eye contact and an assertive remark. The techs are far more difficult to manage.