My Immediate Supervisor wants me gone!

[Spritenurse1210, BSN, RN]

Can anyone tell me how to deal with a hostile Supervisor? I am a Medical assistant/ Certified Nursing Assistant in a medical office (i am going to school for my Nursing Degree). i have tried everything I know how, to coexist with the office RN. I was a new hire as of January with little office experience, and i was quite rusty with injections and venipuncture, due to haveing to take a job in a nursing home for 6 months prior to me getting this job. I have done my best to absorb all she was teaching me, and i havent seem to pick up as fast as she would have liked. She constantly complains to the office manager that she needs to find a replacement for me and that she is tired of having to teach me everything. I have confronted her about her behavior, as well as spoken with the office manager and the physician. when confronted the RN says "oh you're just learning, these things take time, and you are doing fine." when i turn my back she bad mouths me. when i spoke to the office manager she said the same thing, and the physician constantly praises me. I dont know what to do or think. Can someone please help me?

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[SFCardiacRN]

Ignore it or move on. You are on the right track in getting a license. Not everyone can manage people and this RN sounds like a poor manager. And you will run into more like her.

[mandana]

My honest opinion is that you should probably move on.

Unless you have extremely important and valuable relationships with the other people in the office, it's just not worth the energy to be in a hostile environment.

Take care of you, get your license and forget about it. If he/she has that opinion of you already formed, no matter what you do you'll never change his/her opinion of you.

Not worth the struggle, IMO.

Good luck,

Amanda

[Luv2BAnurse]

I have met someone like this before. EVERY time a new hire joins our team this person treats them pretty much as you've described. Once the new employee has finished orientation and gets a routine, that person stops saying things, or doing things so nasty. I don't know why this person behaves that way, but I am sure glad not everyone leaves because of her or else we'd lose a lot of good employees. I don't know that I'd leave just because of one person.

[clee1]

Not worth the effort to get along, and it sounds like nothing you do will get you anywhere.

Ignore that old bat, or cut your loses and move on.

[KuteNurse, LPN]

CHances are if she is doing this to you, she is doing it to others. I would document everything and make sure higher up's hear what she is doing. There are lots of interesting personalities out there. She probably is jealous of something. Just keep doing what you do. When she tells you to do it, do it without complaint and don't let her see reaction. She will get bored and move onto someone new. Hope this helps!

KN