A Mean Nurse Verses A Good Don!!!

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Specializes in LTC.

:heartbeatI WILL START AT THE BEGINNING. IN NSG SCHOOL WE HAD ONE STUDENT WHO WAS JUST MEAN! SHE MADE EVERYBODY WANT TO GO THE OTHER WAY WHEN SHE CAME IN THE ROOM! IF SOMEONE CRIED FOR GETTING A LOWER THAN DESIRED GRADE OR EXPRESSED THEIR FEELING OR GOD FORBID THEIR OPINION THEN SHE WOULD JUMP ON THEM LIKE A STARVING WOLF ON A RABBIT! SOMEHOW SHE GOT AWAY WITH THIS BECAUSE SHE KNEW WHEN TO TURN ON THE FAKE CHARM WITH THE INSTRUCTORS. A CLASS OF 45 STUDENTS ONLY 14 OF US BECAME NURSES. WE ALL SAID WE WOULD NEVER WORK WHERE SHE WAS BUT AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT(YOU GUESSED IT)WE WERE ON THE SAME JOB AND TRUE TO FORM SHE WAS EVEN WORSE ON THE JOB. WE HAD A STRICT BUT FAIR DON WHO THOUGHT WE SHOULD HANDLE OUR OWN PROBLEMS AS MANY NURSES WENT TO HER TO C/O THIS NURSE. AFTER ATLEAST FIVE NURSES QUIT AS A RESULT OF THIS MEAN NURSE (STILL NOBODY STOOD UP TO HER) THE DON SENT OUT A MEMO ABOUT CHARTING SKIN AUDITS AND IN THIS MEMO 4 NURSES HAD DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB SO THE DON NAMED THEM IN THE MEMO. THE MEAN ONE BECAME ENRAGED AND TOOK THE MEMO INTO THE DON OFFICE TORE IT UP AND THREW IT ON HER DESK THEN CURSED HER OUT!!!! THE DON QUIT A WEEK LATER AS THE MEAN NURSE STILL THERE! A FEW OF US HAD JUST GIVING UP AND DECIDED TO QUIT AS WELL,JUST LET HER TAKE CARE OF THE WHOLE BUILDING SINCE SHE DOES NOT WANT ANYONE ELSE TO FEEL GOOD AT WORK. BEFORE OUR 2 WEEK NOTICE WAS UP IN WALKED THE NEW DON(NO EXP IN LTC/SNF SHE WAS AN ER NURSE FOR 20YRS AND ALSO HAD SOME OR)SHE WAS ALSO AS NICE AS APPLEPIE. OUR FIRST THOUGHT WAS THE MEAN NUSREIS GOING TO HAVE HER FOR BREAKFAST!!! WE WERE PLEASANTLY SURPRISED B/C THE FIRST THING SHE DID WAS CALL US IN ONE BY ONE TO GET TO KNOW US WHEN IT WAS THE MEAN NURSE TURN WE THOUGHT THIS IS IT...AND IT WAS...MEAN ONE HAD BECAME VERY RUDE AND DISRESPECTFUL DURING TALKS AND THE SWEET AS APPLEPIE ER NURSE FIRED HER ON THE SPOT AND TOLD HER SHE WOULD RATHER PASS MEDS TO EVERY RESIDENT IN THE BUILDING THAN TO ALLOW THIS ATTITUDE!!!AS MEAN NURSE LEFT IN TEARS(THAT WAS A FIRST) WE ALL DECIDED TO STAY AND THE WORK ENVIROMENT WAS GREAT OUR NEW DON TOLD US EVERYDAY,"THANKS FOR EVERY THING YOU DO ITS NOT EASY TO BE A NURSE B/C IF IT WAS THEN EVERYBODY WOULD DO IT'. SHE WOULD WORK THE FLOOR WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT BUT SHE RARELY HAD TO... BECAUSE WE HAD HER BACK JUST AS SHE HAD OURS.

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Specializes in ICU/ER.

Wow---I love to hear a happy ending--you all need to throw new DON a party.

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Good for her for finally standing up to her--it sounds like noone ever had and it probably shocked her! She should not have been allowed to work with an attitude like that anyway. Good story!

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Specializes in Tele, Acute.

great story, so where are you? I see, you list Cajun country, well, I am there too. Hope she does'nt come this way!:chuckle:chuckle:chuckle:chuckle:chuckle:chuckle

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purpil29, I enjoyed reading your post, and I'm glad to hear that it worked out for you in the end.

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