How much "crap" do you take from people at work?

[addieoliveira]

Ok I am starting school for my bsn soon and this is in regards to all registered nurses only.

I realized that working in food service mostly that I had to take "crap" from managers just constantly criticizing my work and working with mean people serving food and coffee like they're saving lives. I know nursing is different because you obviously are saving lives but I still want to know: how much crap do RNs have to deal with and by whom? Who will be the criticizer tellin you how to do your job and putting you down causing stress?

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

One thing I liked about working in a prison was the fact that weren't expected to take crap from the inmates. Yes, they deserve respect as human beings, regardless of what they have done. But if they didn't like something, and it didn't violate their human rights or the standard of care, they had to live with it.

[nutella, MSN, RN]

I would not say I am dealing with "crap" per se - perhaps that is a result of my position but probably also a result of being experienced. Age and nursing experience definitely plays a role because when I was younger and less experienced, I had to deal with a variety of attitudes I do not encounter much anymore. It also depends a lot on the work environment. In a punitive environment with high stress there is much more stress for everybody and anybody and people do not always play nicely.

When I was younger / less experienced it was mostly stress with residents who despised being paged or being called to a rapid response. Later on it became "crap" from management when I did not conform to whatever management tried to enforce - that is when I also figured out that nurse managers usually do not like critique and even if they say "they want an honest opinion" - they do not really want that.

In my last job before this one it was the amount of "extra" visits that the manager tried to push on me and after that manager left, the next one came and was incompetent. So I left because I am too old for that.

Nursing is not for people who are too thin skinned or who have no resilience.

In this job, I am very happy and do not have anything that bothers me much. I do not like "drama" and try to diffuse that.