I just read an article on nurse bullying…the article I read was crazy
a critical care nurse single hand coded her patient with no help from fellow coworkers.
a nurse found a syringe of blood in her locker, and no one was fired for this.
Wow…I hope that these a rare instances…
I don’t think that I have ever worked in an environment like that.
I hear that someone is bullied a lot at work. I think that everyone in a critical care and a fast paced area is stressed and busy. Most days you are treading water in the start of your career in nursing. When you walk out of your patients room and your coworkers have seen their two patients and are resting and talking about things other than work, it makes you wonder why you are not working as efficently as them. It is a hard job, you are always thinking, watching, and waiting. It takes at least a year to be comfortable in your job. When you are a new nurse it is just hard.
I was lucky I worked with nurses, whom I had worked with as a tech, they had a vested interest in me. I was someone that they knew not another new face that may or may not stick around. That first year was not easy, I would work behind nurses who would give report and when I did my first round I wondered if I had the same patient that the outgoing nurse had. You would vent to your other coworkers, who listened, we are dealing with human lives, not an inanimate object. We would love to work and give our patients to some RNs and be scared of others. Is this bullying???
Even now I work with people who consistently are late, or call in. When you only work 3 to maybe 4 days per week why call in? That is one way to not be liked in this profession.
Also if you are not good at the area of nursing that you have gotten into, please be aware of this so that other nurses do not have to gossip about you and patients do not have to suffer from interventions that you may not be qualified to do. There is so much out there for nurses, it is a field where it is easy to find where you belong. I see nurses that stay in an area that they are technically not cut out for-like working in critical care and you do not know how to read an EKG.
There is such a critical need for nurses, that it is sad but, people are becoming nurses who do not love nursing. These people are bouncing from hospital to hospital, they are in programs for nurses who are misappropriating drugs from their patients. I feel like this is being accepted by all of us Being a nurse is about caring for patients and the families. There is an art to nursing-and I feel like we are losing the art. I also do believe that bullying and rudeness happens everywhere, and it is uncalled for....but always saying that because you had a misunderstanding with someone, or that someone corrected you before you made a mistake, this does not qualify as bullying.
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