[Anxious Patient]

I expected to read that patients were the culprits, but instead it said physicians were the most abusive,...followed by fellow nurses.


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[oramar]

No body has mentioned managment. They are the biggest bullies going.

[phoebebrat]

I worked for 1yr 9mo in med/surg at a small town hospital. It was my exp. that nurses really do eat their young, how cold! And when dealing with some drs. we are dealing with their over-blown ego's. They seem to think nurses are stupid and sometimes tend to wipe their feet on us. Drs. forget, or refuse to see how many times nurses take the fall for THEM I have so many times felt that nurses are the drs. babysitters. On a more positive note, I truly loved my patients and they were the least of my problems.

[withasmilelpn]

My experience has been mainly with families.

[cardiacRN2006]

Management first, then families, then nurses, then physicians. It's rare to have a physician bully me. And when it happens, it doesn't go unchecked.

[RN1989]

When are they going to quit studying the phenomenon and come up with a plan to STOP the bullying?

[banditrn]

Originally Posted by oramar

No body has mentioned managment. They are the biggest bullies going.

I agree oramar - physicians would be at the bottom of my list.

By the way - I miss your dancing chicken (pout) altho I did worry about his little feet!

[reddheadangel]

In my 20 years of hospital nursing I was bullied by all three. Which was worse? I can remember things other nurses said and did from the early 80's. I had a supervisor who wouldn't speak to me or answer my pages. I had a coworker who followed me around and corrected everything I did. I've seen coworker bulling in action and have seen it literally ruin lives. Most of the nurses who do the bullying are sad little problematic people with multiple issues themselves. Somewhere in one of the Nursing Journals there is an interesting article about what type of person bullies and what type is bullied. It was all too true. A person who is bullied has to remember that most of the time it is not their fault and it is a problem that the bullier has. I was terribly unsure of myself until I realized this and I had to keep telling myself this when I was being bullied. All I can say is have enough assertiveness to take the bulling to the proper authorities. If it's your supervisor, get documentation and go to their supervisor. My bullying finally stopped when one of the nursing administrators asked me if the supervisor had a "personality conflict" with me and I told her about the not answering pages and the verbal harrassment. I transfered to another floor and never came in contact with the woman again.

[Kati2005]

Originally Posted by RN1989

When are they going to quit studying the phenomenon and come up with a plan to STOP the bullying?

Good point. They can come up with 100 hundred studies but ask them to come up with a solution then they got their heads up their butts.

[DeLana_RN]

So sad, so true. Nurses do eat their young and their own, and this hurts more than abuse from managers, doctors, families or patients. How can they do this to each other? What other profession would allow this?

I guess that's why some say nursing isn't really a profession.

DeLana