How to deal with coworkers

[enfermeratobe]

Hi there newly licensed nurse here only been a nurse for a year. My question is how do you guys deal with sometimes rude fellow coworkers/ nurses. My coworkers make me feel so incompetent at times whenever I make a mistake they announce it in front

of everyone at the nurses station and embaress me. They also take any opportunity to get others in trouble. I hear them talk about other nurses and whatever mistake they make and make it into a huge ordeal. I am also going to school part time to finish my RN and get attitude from the nurses when I can't work certain shifts. I try to remain my calm and remain my cool but being embaressed like that in front of providers and coworkers is not okay. Some days I feel like quitting. I am also the youngest of the bunch only 23 so sometimes I think it may be easier to lecture me because of that. I feel like this may be a normal feeling other nurses may have just wanted to know how you have dealt with situations like this?

[Larry2016]

And if that doesn't work...talk to the unit manager about "lateral violence"

Seriously. It was an ethics question on one of my Leadership exam my last semester

It annoys me when people expect you to know what 20 or 30 years of experience could only teach. In two years I hope to be a preceptor for students because I have the patience for it. I think that's what needs to happen - those hotheads need to be assigned nursing students to mentor LOL!

The next time one of them chastizes you at the nursing station, immediatly ask to speak to that colleague in private, once you are alone with them, say "I feel embaressed when you discuss my mistakes in a public area, in the future can you please discuss any concerns you have with my practice in private?" Role model the message through your own behaviour and words that you believe public criticism is uncomfortable and inconsiderate.