She's loud and outspoken. Markedly unattractive and overweight, in her mid 40s, she describes herself as having been in the ICU "forever." She's large and in charge, and everyone knows better than to argue with her because she's always right, and there's only way to do everything. An adult learner, she was a former waitress or CNA before "gettin' her RN" now attending an online-for profit school for her BSN or, more likely, refusing to further her education at all. She has been uplifted from a low income upbringing to "professional status" and for years has been drunk on an artificial sense of authority as an RN. Her particularly favorite hobbies include talking endlessly about her experience, describing the problems she has with "today's young nurses," and behaving rudely toward float nurses and travel nurses and medical interns just getting out of school because "they should know how to do all this without asking." She also makes frequent trips to the manager's office to pester and annoy.
I transitioned from my hospital's float pool to the medical ICU about 6 months ago, and we have one of these in my unit. I don't think I've ever met anyone with as rotten a personality as this individual. Luckily I have never been one of her targets.
"Anyone who takes a dump in the lounge bathroom is going to taste my shoe heel for a week! No one better be doing THAT." (Dictating the rules of the use of the staff bathroom, believing that any nurse or tech with the urge to empty their bowels need do so in a different part of the hospital)
"You could literally get FIRED for eating that. That's considered STEALING. That may have flown over on such and such floor, but not here!" (To a float nurse who didn't have time to break and took a package of two saltines to eat)
"Guys, you see that traveler Jen who started last week? She's always in her patients rooms, and you can never find her when you need help. It's because she has nothing to do so she stays in her patients rooms so she doesn't have to come out and help. Just watch you guys, that's how she's going to be all day." (Spoken at 730AM as being are just finishing getting report. Great way to start the day!)
Do you have (or are you one of) these dips running around in your unit? What do you think of these types? This person also orients people, thankfully on a very seldom basis because she's not a preceptor of choice. I have made reference to her in my other threads about bullies, and people have said she is not a bully.
What do you think? Use this thread to talk about "veteran bully queens of the ICU" or any med-surg floor.
RNdynamic wasn't talking about anybody on this board!
Why is everybody making this about themselves?
Come on!
The descriptors painted a picture of this nurse... and it was very effective.
that happens on every thread these days. the first page = mostly positive , the last comment on the first page = always the first negative comment. the second page = half positive and the last 4 is the start of the whole argument. third page = someone sticks up for the OP and they still fight. page 4-6= people going off topic using RIDICULOUS examples of why the OP is wrong
and then the moderators come and tell us we have to be nice blah blah blah.
RN Dynamic, The new graduate nurses role is exactly the same as every other nurse working that floor, no more no less. I do find it interesting that so many recent grads feel they are the only ones fully versed on current evidence based practice. In today's hypercompetitive health care environment, any new EBP is pretty much mandated by Medicare or adopted to help save money.
Bully! Just rejoice in the fact that her life is probably pretty sad even if she says it's not, let the internal turmoil that plagues her everyday be the sweet revenge you crave on her.
Specializes in Gerontology RN-BC and FNP MSN student.
Yes I know this person.....
Sometimes I think it would be great if nurses were made to rotate:sly: (areas) assignments once in a while so they would know what it feels like to be the new kid on the block.
Specializes in EDUCATION;HOMECARE;MATERNAL-CHILD; PSYCH.
Yep, this nurse is in every unit. Some of these Queens/Kings come in different shapes, sizes, shades and backgrounds. Even in administration, you will encounter these "I-KNOW-EVERYTHING-AND-YOU-DON'T".
At first I thought this was a spoof/irony/tounge-in-cheek type thread.
A thread talking about an "markedly unattractive", older nurse bullying new grads? Hmmm... seems like a deliberate attempt to rile up a very specific segement of the membership here...
Tell her very pointedly that you will "take a dump" in whatever bathroom you wish to and it sure isn't any of her business when you do it. What a psycho.
I seriously can't picture a nurse like this. We have our nurses that are very uptight and rule oriented who definitely have an air of superiority and would get upset about someone "stealing" saltines. But they're not the same nurse that would use the phrase "take a dump" or make physical threats. The two are kind of contradictory.
Nice. A thread title indicating a junior high atmosphere. An opening post containing pretty much every "harpy" incantation known to western discourse. And a picture to boot. Way to go, AN, way to go.
Nice. A thread title indicating a junior high atmosphere. An opening post containing pretty much every "harpy" incantation known to western discourse. And a picture to boot. Way to go, AN, way to go.
Yep, complete with a circle of onlookers cheering the creativity of the bullies.
:p
OnlinePersona, LPN
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that happens on every thread these days. the first page = mostly positive , the last comment on the first page = always the first negative comment. the second page = half positive and the last 4 is the start of the whole argument. third page = someone sticks up for the OP and they still fight. page 4-6= people going off topic using RIDICULOUS examples of why the OP is wrong
and then the moderators come and tell us we have to be nice blah blah blah.
then the thread ends
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