Heres the scenario. I work nights & have been having some trouble from a day nurse. The day nurse has always had a really bad attitude, she thinks she is just perfect. She knows it all, is never wrong about ANYTHING and everybody else is just worthless, lazy, incompetent & stupid.
Each nurse has an end of month assignment for changeover, which is kinda confusing. Night shift recieves the new MARS and we have to separate them. I never can remember which ones go to which nurse so I made a copy of the list which was smaller than an index card and I taped it under the desk where I chart, which happens to be the same place as the day nurse. When i was off and came back to work, she had took it down & threw it away!!! There was nothing wrong with where it was. It wasnt in the way or anything.
She called me at home to try to fuss at me because while I was off for 4 nights, a different night nurse didn't draw blood for a BUN on a pt. It was in the lab book, I had wrote it down on the report sheet for the day nurse to make sure it was passed on, yet it wasnt done. She tried to blame me for that!
She also called me at home to say that i had a narc missing from when me and another nurse had sent narcs back to the pharmacy. Ive never made a mistake when sending narcs, not saying it cant happen but it hasnt yet. So...I got back to work and found out there was no mistake in fact! She overlooked what she was looking for!
I got a ua on a pt one night and she raised the roof about it because I got it at 2400. We are allowed by our hospital lab and outside lab to do this. Urines are good for 24 hrs as long as they are refrigerated, which it was. So, she wrote in huge letters on my report sheet "DO NOT GET UA LABS AT 2400", now mind you she has NEVER worked night shift & she doesnt know one thing about what we do at night. we get uas as early as we can and refrigerate them because the lab comes at 4 am to get them. Shes an LPN just like me, shes not my boss and Im tired of her trying to do smart*** things to irritate me.
Im sick of her ***** attitude and how she complains nonstop. She complained that she didnt like the report sheets that my shift put together. Theres nothing wrong with them! The way I see it, if she dont like our sheets or our urines then she can make her own or recath all the ua pts and send them wherever she wants to.
She constantly tries to make snide comments about me and my night shift coworkers where we can hear her and she conveniently waits til after we've done got report and counted. Shes only in a decent mood when her 2 buddies work with her on days. I think shes miserable and being unrealistic.
Aides have been complaining about her too, they report things to her or try to ask her a question and she jumps allllll over them about it! Shes been snapping and hateful to other nurses as well. I feel like for some reason shes been trying to target me the most since her actions seem worse when i have to work behind or in front of her.
Im not up for an argument but if she doesnt stop, Im afraid she'll catch ME in a bad mood one of these days and Ill end up bringing her attitude down a few notches unexpectedly.
They really are. Ive tried to maintain a level head and ignore as much as I can, but I do take thorough notes that I bring home and put on my vent file lol.
I think other nurses are somewhat intimidated by her because of her attitude.
Id love to be able to pick her apart and I very well could dig and find tons of mistakes...for example one thing she used to do when we were on 8 hours was chart things like this " 2nd shift nurse made aware of bla bla bla".....I put a stop to that when it was done on a K+ lab...she precharted it and never told me ..I found her note days later in the chart when i had to chart on that person...I told the DON about it and it was brought up not to ever chart like that at one of the nurses meetings.
I figure she will eventually dig her own hole and get canned. She is also bad about staging every single thing...she'll put blisters as stg 4's..which you cant do...its a blister..unless you know whats under it you cant stage it....a cold sore on a pts lip ...she staged it as a 2! Its a freakin cold sore...from a virus..itll go away with some meds!
You'd think the nurse who knows it all would know that right hahah?
Specializes in drug seekers and the incurably insane..
I think all of the advice here is sound. Just make absolutely certain that she is not a DON friend before making complaints about her. There's a reason as to why she's still around.
Honestly I think she's still around because a bad attitude isn't grounds for termination unless it's directed at the boss. As far as her work w the pts she does well but she needs major improvement on her skills as a coworker
I had a similar situation. I was hired to do this person's old job and she was supposed to train me, but she never lifted a finger to help me and constantly criticized me behind my back and sometimes to my face. I was trying to be patient and wait for this miserable person to realize that I wasn't an idiot... guess what?... I was called into the office and told that "it just wasn't working out" and they "decided to go a different way" with my job. I was stunned. They said not to "take it personally." I asked them if they would give me a letter of reference and they said yes, but after 3 unanswered requests I gave up. That was almost a year ago and I've been unemployed ever since.
My advice to you is: Don't let them label you. You need to assert yourself and demand some respect before it's too late.
Sounds like she is creating a hostile work environment. when she changes the med times take the changes and her to the DON and ask for a rational for the changes and provide a rationale for not changing them. As for the cart stocking issue, if she starts to re-do it before narc count and report simply tell her "Would you mind waiting to do your stuff until we finish report"? What gives her the right and authority to remove aids that you use to help you do your job right? (your list for the MAR's) Straight up ask her "What is the issue that you have with me that makes you treat me like this"?
I once worked with a nurse like that. She complained and snarked about every little thing. Everyone hated her, administration was desperate to get rid of her but they couldn't becaue they couldn't find any other RNs that would that shift.
One night, after a wretched shift, after report was done, I had moved away from the nurses station to finish my charting and she tracked me down and started yelling at me about something another nurse had done. Then she turned around and stormed away.
I was so out of my mind with stress and anxiety that before I even knew what had happened I had jumped out of my chair and was running down the hall chasing her and yelling at her. In front of all the rest of the staff.
I do not ever recommend doing something like and I'm embarrassed to say that I did it, and will never do anything like that again, but I can say that I never had problems with that nurse again.
The lesson I learned was that some people don't understand anything but down and dirty tactics. It's how she gets her ya-yas. Just remember that when you are dealing with her. She's not looking for reasonable dialogue, she's trying to bully you. Don't take it personally, just do your job, remember that it is not about you, it is all about her and her need to bully other people.
It sounds to me like everyone else is on the same page as you so just focus on your relationships with them.
In the end I got out of that facility because I didn't like the person I was becoming there.
I remember an incident from the 1980's. There was this 3-11 RN superviser who screamed and yelled at all staff!!! No one was exempt from her hostility. The licensed staff didn't know what to do about her. However, the CNA's did know what to do. She arrived in the parking lot one day and was quickly surrounded by about 15 angry CNA's.
The CNA 's told her that if she got out of her car that they were going to kick her ***. The licensed staff were inside the building watching and laughing!!!! The woman drove away quickly and she never ever returned!!!!! I miss the good old days!!!!!
Sounds like she is creating a hostile work environment.
definately. To answer your short question in post title, I think if you suspect that you are a target of another employee, that more than likely, you are. Because she is creating a hostile work environment, it should be brought to HR attention. I bet that you are not the only one she is targeting!
! The woman drove away quickly and she never ever returned!!!!!
I miss the good old days!!!!!
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Wow do we work at the same place? LOL They are everywhere!