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Super irritated today...on my first day in ICU.

I know my eyes are smaller than others, but I am not SOME CHINA GIRL! You male chauvinist pig can just keep that comment to yourself! It was really uncalled for and totally unnecessary. I know I looked different as compared to the other nurses because I am wearing a polo shirt, but I cannot help the fact that I am not allowed to wear the nurses' uniform or my student nurse uniform. Do you have to ask who I am and what am I doing near YOUR patient in that accusatory tone as if I am trying to harm your patient? For goodness sake, I wasn't even touching your patient!

Just when I thought it was just my problem, towards the end of the shift I heard something shocking. THAT same comsultant was bitching to his MO that the nurse feeding his patient medication was trying to kill his patient (btw, it was not me he was referring to). The problem was, as discreet as he wanted to be, that comment could be heard throughout the entire ICU.

Way to go! This is the kind of environment that I will be working in the future...anyone congratulating me?

- i just wanted to say ...# ;