I have read many posts on here about back biting, cattiness, and bad mouthing nurses. How do you stop this. It is insane on the floor I work on. I hate, absolutely hate to hear a nurse tell me........."I hate following so and so because of blah blah blah. Or I hate giving report to so and so because she blah blah blah." It turns me off. We work in a hospital, it is a 24 hour operation, if things dont get done on one shift they are passed on. I have come in many times and had to finish the prior nurse's job. I never think badly of that nurse, I just think she was very busy and couldnt get to it. The things that really get to me are if someone does something wrong, why are you telling the whole floor and not the person that did it. Maybe the person in question didnt realize he/she did something wrong.
I was in the miliatary and then I worked at another job for many many years before becoming a nurse, and I think nursing is the most backbiting catty job I have ever done. In my previous job I was a supervisor, made a lot less but I 'm to the point that I wish I would still be doing that. AND it's not just the women, it is the men TOO!! At the next staff meeting I just want to say to everyone, FOR heaven sakes we are not in highschool please grow up and stop all this back biting. Its crazy. We are all here for the same thing............ To help our patients heal. If the person before you overlooked a Mag, hang it shut your mouth and do your job. If the person you're giving report to keeps asking questions, answer them and do your job, if the person before you missed a foley. empty the damn thing and do your job!!! Stop the damn complaining and back biting. We're all human, we all miss something, we all make mistakes. We all have discharges, we all have new admissions............We all have residents that keep writing and rewriting orders JUST DO YOUR JOB!!!
:nurse:Thanks for letting me vent. I feel better now.
I have to admit I am hard of hearing in my right ear from childhood menningitis. It is a blessing sometimes, just about every time a co-worker is venting about someone or something I understand about half of what they say. I smile, nod my head, and walk away thinking to myself, "who or what were they talking about?????" Maybe that is why it hasn't bothered me that much when they do it?
Backbiting continues because there are people with "ears" to listen.
When you're trying to get report and the report starts off by sorry this is a crappy report but I got report from so and so. I dont want to hear that just give the me report. My ears are there to hear report not hear why you cant look up things on your own and have to blame your crappy report on someone else. So that being said I appreciate the person who responded with the statement, "I ask them what they have done to make it better' or something to that
Katie5
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If you're not part of the problem or part of the solution, then you DON'T NEED to know about it! It's as simple as that.
Backbiting continues because there are people with "ears" to listen.