I am kind of a new nurse only a few months into a job at a busy community hospital ER. It may be busy in part because the senior staff tend to be unfriendly and unhelpful to newbies. That being the case, we lose A LOT of new hires, fast. Lost half a dozen or so in 2 months.
One of the patient care coordinators has taken a disliking to me. She has embellished and even made up half truths about me, trying to make me look bad, then gone to our Unit Manager, whom I very, very rarely see or talk with.
This particular patient care coordinator is supposed to help all staff with the intake of squad patients, and other things, and yet I can't seem to find her when I have a patient(s) coming in by squad. She gets snippy with me, then projects issues on to me (who is calm by nature). She yelled at me, then had the nerve to come back, hours later, and said I seem angry.
I'm quite sure she's emotionally unbalanced. My unit manager is too, and listens to her for some reason and gave me a terrible performance review I surmise largely based on this supervisor's input.
It was a terrible review, out of nowhere, with no suggestions for improvement. Stuff like 'you administer medications safely, but you struggle with iv starts sometimes, so you are not progressing as expected.'
I reported hostility and racial tension/slurs (which make me uncomfortable) and the retort was: you come off as stand-offish.
What should I do? I have another job, I can get by with if need be, but I won't be bringing in the same amount if I quit this place, thereby reducing my hours by that much.
Specializes in Psychiatry, Community, Nurse Manager, hospice.
I think the racial tension/slurs needs to be addressed. You will not be fired for misinterpeting, if thats what it is. That is called a misunderstanding.
Apart from the racial tension, it sounds like you are having a very common problem of personality non- matching.
You are reserved and it appears to people unlike you that you are a snob.
It's tough to overcome. And ER nurses tend to be raucous, intractable types.
FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN
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I think the racial tension/slurs needs to be addressed. You will not be fired for misinterpeting, if thats what it is. That is called a misunderstanding.
Apart from the racial tension, it sounds like you are having a very common problem of personality non- matching.
You are reserved and it appears to people unlike you that you are a snob.
It's tough to overcome. And ER nurses tend to be raucous, intractable types.