Is it because they don't get paid well enough?

Gossip? Mean doctors? New grads? stress at work?

I've never experienced NETY though I've seen the term applied mostly when someone is disgruntled with a response, fails to meet basic minimum standards, doesn't like an answer, or fails to realize that experience counts in many ways and no one knows everything. Misinterpretation of written word tone vs intent of poster.

A thread like this serves what purpose? To incite others? To create yet another us vs them divisive debate? Breakdown team work?

I've never experienced NETY though I've seen the term applied mostly when someone is disgruntled with a response, fails to meet basic minimum standards, doesn't like an answer, or fails to realize that experience counts in many ways and no one knows everything. Misinterpretation of written word tone vs intent of poster.

A thread like this serves what purpose? To incite others? To create yet another us vs them divisive debate? Breakdown team work?

^^^ This times 1.2 jillion ^^^

I've been a nurse for a long time and just don't see this happening!

Teamwork is always the key to good collegial relations.

There should be a rule that you must have at least 100 posts before you're allowed to type NETY on this forum.

Great! Thanks for the response

I never saw cannibalism happening, neither as a new grad nor now.

"Is it because they don't get paid well enough?"

Yes, and fresh young nurses don't cost all that much. Helps feed the family, dontcha know.

I experienced it once, with a preceptor. I think she was just a nasty person in general. A bully. She wanted to prove how much smarter she is. Whatever. I took a long lunch that day and never went back. It was the only time I played hooky on clinical, and I didn't feel guilty. "Oops, I forgot to have her sign my timesheet, sorry professor!" :)

I experienced it once, with a preceptor. I think she was just a nasty person in general. A bully. She wanted to prove how much smarter she is. Whatever. I took a long lunch that day and never went back. It was the only time I played hooky on clinical, and I didn't feel guilty. "Oops, I forgot to have her sign my timesheet, sorry professor!" :)

I experienced it as well, but like you, I think this was just a nasty person in general who would have been a nasty pharmacist, accountant, or stripper.

OP, I can see from the number of threads that you are starting that you're really, REALLY interested in becoming a nurse. That's great!

But some of your questions may not receive exactly the response that you're looking for. Take this one, for example. Nurses "eating their young" is a fairly derogatory expression. Not only that, but it has been discussed over and over and over here. Most of those discussions contain some ummmm......energetic discussion.

This topic is obviously a hot button for some nurses. Of course, you wouldn't know that yet unless you had researched the subject. So I guess my advice to you is to pay close attention to what you are posting. For example in this post, you made an assumption that nurses eating their young is an actual phenomenon. Some would disagree with you on that. Perhaps you could have asked "is it true that nurses "eat their young" and why?" Or better yet, you could search here and read some threads so as to be aware of the reality of a situation before posting a question about it.

Another thing to be aware of is that your responses will be very limited if your topic has already been discussed many times before. Some of us will just move on and assume that you could find your answers by searching previous threads.

There is a blue SEARCH button in the upper right hand corner if you think of other topics and want to see if they've already been discussed.

Hope this is helpful to you.

It is not nurses, it is PEOPLE who are rude. They could work anywhere. I am so sick of hearing this cliche

I have to admit, I've encountered very mean nurses during my clinical rotations. But come to think of it, I've encountered very mean people in all walks of life. I guess there are some mean people in this world. Thankfully, there are nice people too who I tend to meet up with much more often.