[Mulan]

Originally Posted by desertrn

How can nurses sabotage you? Oh they do! They tell lies about your nursing care. They say you don't carry your load. They say nobody wants to work with you. They say you are psycho. This will allow a manager to write you up for unproffesional behavior. They keep it up until you have too many write ups then your out! It is most definately bullying at it's worst.

I agree with this and sometimes they try to make things so miserable for you that you'll quit. In that case, I'd stay just out of spite.

Good luck.

[brwneyegal]

I am going to act as if no one ever told me this. I love my job and do not plan to go anywhere right now. When the storm starts I will deal with it then. I may be being naive but, I am here to do my job and that is what I am going to do.

[rn/writer]

Originally Posted by brwneyegal

I am going to act as if no one ever told me this. I love my job and do not plan to go anywhere right now. When the storm starts I will deal with it then. I may be being naive but, I am here to do my job and that is what I am going to do.

Good for you! You can come here any time for moral support and comfort.

If the storm starts, we'll hold your hand and offer an umbrella of caring. In the meantime, be there for your patients, and we'll all hope that the troublemakers find better things to do.

Take care,

[desertrn]

[quote=rn/writer;2234032]Good for you! You can come here any time for moral support and comfort.

If the storm starts, we'll hold your hand and offer an umbrella of caring. In the meantime, be there for your patients, and we'll all hope that the troublemakers find better things to do.

Take care,[/quote/)
Well said!

[Selke]

Originally Posted by sonoran

I disagree that it's a gender trait. I think such behavior is a product of an environment where there are little opportunities to advance, and where the problem population is not very sophisticated (perhaps lacking in advanced university education, experience in higher-level jobs outside nursing, etc.)
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As I see it, in nursing, the stuff seems especially petty as most of the folks doing it lack education and just sound like ignorant, whiney crybabies. Gender doesn't matter.

[JBudd]

It doesn't always take a "clique" to go after you, sometimes it is just one instigator who stirs everyone else up.

I've been at this hospital many years, yet when one traveler decided she hated me, I got burned. She gossiped about me to people on other shifts, kept going on and on about how I never helped out, etc. When my boss called me in for "counseling", she said if it were just that traveler she'd have ignored the complaints "pouring in", but when regular staff started complaining, she had to take notice.

Now, if you're having trouble with a patient, and I (as charge) ask several times how you are doing and you say fine, deny the need for help, then a day shifter decides she has to stay over and help you because "I wouldn't" , but noone tells me she is in there .... I get counseled for not helping! because the day shifter wrote me up after you told her to.
Just an example of how things can get twisted around.

Funny how after her contract was up all the complaints dried up and went away. I'm still here. And getting good work reviews.

Don't just quit. don't get worked up about it (easier said than done, I lost some sleep over the above garbage). Like the others have said, keep notes if you do start noticing anything odd, so that you have some defense at hand when you get slammed between the eyes with unfounded complaints or twisted stories. If you are union, be sure to take a rep with you to any "counseling" sessions. If not, try to take someone with you anyway.

But if you haven't noticed anything yourself, I'd take a good look at why this CNA is trying to stir things up. Is it a real warning or does she like to seem like she is "in the know" about everything?

Good luck in whatever happens. Hospice nurses deserve A LOT of respect.