Anyone have issues with lateral violence?

SnowShoeRN · Feb 26, 2011

We don't really have any young eating. But we do have A LOT of gossip/backstabbing.

Happy BSN · Mar 8, 2011

The biggest conflict I see is between nurses who do their jobs and those who want to be lazy but get paid.

caliotter3 · Mar 8, 2011

The biggest conflict I see is between nurses who do their jobs and those who want to be lazy but get paid.

There are those who are lazy and harbor professional jealousy toward the non-lazy, and those who just like to stir up trouble and point fingers at the one who does the work. As long as you complain about the person who does the work, nobody will see that you are not doing your work. People get away with this all the time. Have never been in a work situation, much less a nursing work situation, where this was not the case.

canesdukegirl, BSN, RN · Mar 8, 2011

All the time. Sad.

LPN_FTW · Mar 15, 2011

I've only met one RN who was fully against LPNs -- she has been an RN since LPNs here were ADL care givers. LPNs have changed leaps and bounds since then, so her anger towards us is mostly just misplaced due to her not educating herself on the changes that have occurred.

Weebee, LVN · Mar 16, 2011

https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/article-male-nurses-52363.html

This article was posted 8 years ago... The eating of the young is nothing new.

If you ask me... and you did.... we eat our young because of the stress and pressures placed on each and every one of us every day.

Its not that we don't like our young... its that we don't have time to teach them... thus, I believe this is why so many people that get into this field leave after just a few short years.

The employers only obligation is to have a body in a position... then they put pressure on that body to perform at a level that others are asked to perform with little pressure.

The backstabbing/back-talking etc. is just Nursing venting to the wrong people. The truth is you need to take your hostility's out to the management ... the problem is they don't care.... most of them were nurses and left the field of direct care to be able to get paid without the stress of direct care... but if you look at the turn over rate of CNO's and Nurse Managers you find they are not getting what they thought they would get...

THIS FIELD SUCKS No other job I have ever worked at puts you under the stress and pressures nursing does.... Name a job that you can be put in jail because your work load was too great, then name an employer that helped you with your case to get you out of jail.