Misogyny in Nursing - Page 7

meanwhile, she was in a sexless relationship (that she constantly talked about) with a guy who wouldn't commit to her, she had her adn, and she received patient complaints as well as coaching for her attitude during the time i worked with her.

nevermind*****

you say you have no idea why she would behave that way towards you but then you listed several reasons that might have motivated her. also you said this about her.



so i think it might not have been 100% her. we've all spent time in both the agressor and victim role at one time or another.[/font][/left]

Theoretically, morally, ethically, I agree with you.

And yet, in my heart of hearts, I cannot deny that many times, ******* be crazy.

Call me a self-loathing misogynist all you want, but it'll just be the same kind of dramatic overreaction that perpetuates these stereotypes, while male posters twiddles their thumbs, stay under the radar and let the ladies go at it amongst themselves.

a nurse rolls her eyes at a co-worker as she picks up the assignment sheet that was created by a younger charge nurse. an icu nurse pretends not to see her co-worker is drowning and ignores her request for help saying she is ‘too busy’. a newly hired rn who was previously a scrub tech finds she is now shunned by both groups. is this just life as a nurse or a nurse’s right of passage? or is it something more insidious?

these behaviors go by several names: lateral or horizontal violence, incivility, nurse-to-nurse bullying, sabotage - “nurses eating their young.” in general, bullying in the united states is a term used to describe uncivil behavior from someone who has power over you – vertical aggression. rude behaviors from peers are referred to as horizontal or lateral hostility and are defined as: “a consistent pattern of behavior designed to control, diminish or devalue a peer (or group) which creates a risk to health or safety” (farrell, 2005). some specific examples are:

• covert. unfair assignments, refusing to help someone, ignoring, making faces behind someone’s back, refusing to only work with certain people – or not work with others, whining, sabotage, exclusion, fabrication

estimates of lateral violence in the nursing workplace ranges from 46–100% (stanley et al. 2007). nursing literature abounds with examples of prevalence. in one study, one-third of nurses perceived emotional abuse during their last five shifts worked (roche). in another survey, 30% of respondents (n= 2,100) said disruptive behavior happened weekly, and 25% said monthly (advisory.com). and a study of emergency room nurses found that 27.3% had experienced workplace bullying in the last six months with many staff bullied by their managers, charge nurses or directors as well as physicians and peers (johnson, rea). bullying behaviors are like gangrene – when tolerated from a few physicians or nurses with strong personalities, the behaviors spread and infect the entire team – and eventually, the patient.

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[color=#111180]the first time i read a header like “why are nurses such backstabbers?” or a post that flatly stated “women are nasty, catty, backstabbers” i fully expected the poster to be jumped upon with both feet by every woman reading the post. when that didn’t happen, it surprised, then disappointed, then dismayed me. when so many female posters jumped in to agree with these misogynistic statements, i was shocked and saddened. i am no longer shocked by how many members of this board appear to hate, mistrust or dislike women, but i continue to deplore the pheonomenon. and that so many of these misogynists are women themselves -- that i find even more deplorable. hypocritical and deplorable.

Oh PLEASE mind. Or PM me your comment TTP <--- Mean Girl