nurses who bully nurses...what?!

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They used to call it 'nurses eat their young' now its considered workplace violence, psychological violence...and it is a labor law violation tsk tsk.

I have some examples do you? I'll start. A nurse in management accused me of a HIPPA violation because I did an admission in a semi private room and the roommate reported hearing some of the information...scared me to death and it was not a hippa violation at all. I was a target because I reported safety issue to the BON. A Whistleblower.

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Why do nurses attack nurses. Hmm. Where to begin?

-Envy.

-Dysfunction at home.

-An insecure nurse, or an incompetent (and unwilling to better herself) nurse, will naturally attack others unlike her.

-So on, so forth.

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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/when-the-nurse-is-a-bully/

Interesting easy read...but I'm looking for the meat and potatoes of bullying...the psychology behind beast :p

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They used to call it 'nurses eat their young' now its considered workplace violence, psychological violence...and it is a labor law violation tsk tsk.

I have some examples do you? I'll start. A nurse in management accused me of a HIPPA violation because I did an admission in a semi private room and the roommate reported hearing some of the information...scared me to death and it was not a hippa violation at all. I was a target because I reported safety issue to the BON. A Whistleblower.

You take any population of sufficient size and you will find some jerks. No biggie. As far as the management drone descending on you because of what the roommate reported, well that is what they do.

You think they left bedside nursing to help your sorry butt? They have no other purpose in life but to come down on you for this and the more cases they pursue, the better they think they are doing their job.

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http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/pages/results.aspx?k=Jane%20H.%20Barnsteiner,%20PhD,%20RN,%20FAAN,%20ContentType%3a%22Podcasts%22&Scope=AllIssues&txtKeywords=Jane%20H.%20Barnsteiner,%20PhD,%20RN,%20FAAN,

Podcast on bullying...click on Barnsteiner (first article)

This is an interesting interview, but the discussion is based on the healthcare facility actually caring enough to try to stop bullying. IMO, nurse managers or bullies could care less about fixing the issue. Its the only way they know how to manage.

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You take any population of sufficient size and you will find some jerks. No biggie. As far as the management drone descending on you because of what the roommate reported, well that is what they do.

You think they left bedside nursing to help your sorry butt? They have no other purpose in life but to come down on you for this and the more cases they pursue, the better they think they are doing their job.

Honestly, I would love to see the job description of nurse manager. It would be interesting to see what they're are supposed to be doing as opposed to what they are actually doing. I highly doubt that nurses intentionally leave the bedside to make the staff miserable once they become managers. Money is part of the equation I'm sure. Desperation is also a part of it because where are they going to go once they hate what they've become. Some probably get a high off of the power trip too...

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