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[sistasoul]

I know this is not a new topic and one that has been talked about frequently and it has been done to death but I need to vent. I have been a nurse for 8 years. I have worked in a hospital, doctor's office and home health and I can remember maybe three times tops that I have worked with nasty nurses. I have recently taken a job at a LTC/SNF and last night I had two nurses and an LNA be incredibly nasty to me. I stuck up for myself and only time will tell how they will treat me in the future. I am still orienting and I am a little slow as to be expected and I was more or less on my own last evening. The one that was suppose to be precepting me last evening on 7-11 did not want to do a damn thing to help and when i asked her if she could pass meds on a couple of patients so I could get to charting on my six patients out of the 12 I had she was not happy and huffed and puffed. And the nasty comments from these nurses and the LNA were uncalled for but I am proud I stood my ground with them.

Nursing is hard enough without attitude and nastiness. And they wonder why the place is short staffed all of the time. Are all LTC places like this? I am all about making new people feel welcome but I will not tolerate being treated like this and I will go elsewhere. Life is too short to work in a toxic environment. What they do not understand they are only making their situation worse by driving nurses away.