Please checkout "Mobbing" in Wikipedia

[rnbob]

Unfortunately this is a very common practice in Nursing. We all need to be familiar with it, so we can guard against being unwitting participants or victims. Please answer and let me know of your experiences from either side of the Mob

[pedicurn, LPN, RN]

the problem with mobbing etc is that some Nursing workplaces in particular have remained emotionally and relationship wise stunted at the level of the high school , with the 'cool ' girls ( i.e. stereotypically the cheerleaders as per US 'high school' drama) dictating things much more than their actual position should permit ...

this is a sign of weak management pure and simple and if you aren't careful it can wreck a unit -as i have seen where 40 % of the Nurses left in little more than a year because the alleged 'manager' as part of that clique ...

Yep ... when the manager is cut from the same cloth ..... there is really no point in staying and trying to improve the culture.

Regarding the behaviour - it's straight out of junior high school. I can't believe grown women behave like that. Don't know women like that in my non-nursing life ..... only nurses.

But other nurses also tolerate it and are part of the problem.

I work with women who tolerate behaviour that they wouldn't expect their children to