[handyrn]

Here is a website with some really good information on workplace bullying. One of the most interesting things I found is that it can cause PTSD.
http://bullyinginstitute.org/health.html

[nurseinlimbo]

Sistasoul- you are not alone, this happened to me in my final preceptorship, and i requested a new preceptor and got one. Unfortunately the school dealt with it by taking me from a specialty area into a ltc area but the new preceptor was great.

Then, when I took the OR course 2 years later, it happened again but had been kind of going on all the way through, once they found out that I had reconsidered working in that OR when I was finished. The instructor got involved with the manager of the unit and they assigned me a preceptor who was supposed to make me quit before finishing. I didn't, went to the college and claimed they were harassing me, and from then on was protected. I got new preceptors, and finished the course. I passed with flying colors, but cannot work in the health region because of the BS that they put me through. They will not give me a reference. So I did not finish paying for the course, Tit for Tat I figure.

[Recuerdo]

Unions are very important for nurses because they are a legal way (i.e., enforced by LAW) of preventing hospital managements from violating labor laws, and often, the ONLY legal way.

No, they don't make the atmosphere perfect...but a strong Union both can and will stand up for nurses when managements try to do stuff like force overtime, work a floor short, etc etc etc...it is all in how the contract is negotiatied and how strong and united the nurses themselves are.

I'd say, with the atmosphere the way it is, I'll hold onto ANYTHING that gets me any more clout than what I have...and if the law is behind it, so much the better. There's no room for the naysayers here, imo....there has already been far, far too much damage done by hospital managements who are amoral since the advent of managed care, and that is such a violation of trust that our profession owes it to itself to organize independently of them, for now, and forever.

Screw me once...it's your fault.

Screw me again...

It's mine.

[sistasoul]

Originally Posted by nurseinlimbo

Sistasoul- you are not alone, this happened to me in my final preceptorship, and i requested a new preceptor and got one. Unfortunately the school dealt with it by taking me from a specialty area into a ltc area but the new preceptor was great.

Then, when I took the OR course 2 years later, it happened again but had been kind of going on all the way through, once they found out that I had reconsidered working in that OR when I was finished. The instructor got involved with the manager of the unit and they assigned me a preceptor who was supposed to make me quit before finishing. I didn't, went to the college and claimed they were harassing me, and from then on was protected. I got new preceptors, and finished the course. I passed with flying colors, but cannot work in the health region because of the BS that they put me through. They will not give me a reference. So I did not finish paying for the course, Tit for Tat I figure.

Hi.

I am sorry that happened to you. My program does not have the option of changing the instructors we get. One more day with this woman. I just keep telling myself that what goes around comes around. This experience has taught me that I will not put up being treated this way again. In school you have to be careful of what you do and say and these CI's know that. I do have to say that all of my other unstructors have been fair to excellent.

[Ruffles 1]

I had a preceptor RN tell a new employee RN, "that we would not get a break today for a 12 hours shift." because we would be to busy. This preceptor expects this new employee to do all the work, while she sits and does nothing but order around this new employee. It is a shame those people are in charge. Talk about bulllying??

[Kati2005]

Originally Posted by Ruffles 1

I had a preceptor RN tell a new employee RN, "that we would not get a break today for a 12 hours shift." because we would be to busy. This preceptor expects this new employee to do all the work, while she sits and does nothing but order around this new employee. It is a shame those people are in charge. Talk about bulllying??

THAT is awful. I would have gone to management. I just started working at my new job 5 months ago and my preceptor told me...TAKE YOUR BREAK. My previous job, I never got to take a break because we would be short staffed and management didn't care.

[Ruffles 1]

I wish that we could come up with a solution for bullying. Maybe then more nurses would stay in the workforce and we would not have a nursing shortage.

[Kati2005]

Originally Posted by Ruffles 1

I wish that we could come up with a solution for bullying. Maybe then more nurses would stay in the workforce and we would not have a nursing shortage.

I really don't think there is a solution for bullying. It's everywhere and in every industry. Just remember, most bullies have low-self esteem and putting others down makes up for it.

[Diary/Dairy]

Interesting thread.

I have been bullied multiple times at work, by families, management, doctors. Whatever happened to common decency and politeness? Things are getting better for me, I don't put up with that anymore.

[Kati2005]

Originally Posted by Diary/Dairy

Interesting thread.

I have been bullied multiple times at work, by families, management, doctors. Whatever happened to common decency and politeness? Things are getting better for me, I don't put up with that anymore.

Same here. Nothing phases me since I started working in an inner city hospital. I deal with crackheads almost on a daily basis, its not all bad, but some people can be really demanding and pushy. I just don't give in. Had to cover a co-worker's break yesterday and her patient happened to have been on the unit for months, very demanding family, daughter will scream and freak out. So the daughter came to the desk and asked me if her mom's BP was alright..it was 94/44..very sarcastically said " I just want to make sure because I just don't know what's normal"...Yes, that BP is fine especially when the patient is getting CRRT. But she was very condescending "I just don't want to worry about it", "thats my job, not your's, visit with your mom and please don't pay attention to the monitor, thats why I am here." People have no respect for others these days.