New nurse, how to deal with coworkers yelling at you/talking behind your back..

[Cadams47]

So I'm a new nurse at a LTC facility. It's my first nursing job and when I got hired the DON and assistant DON told me it will be normal and okay for me to be slow at med pass. I have anywhere from 20-30 patients I have to care for...during my orientation some of the nurses were just really rude to me or talked to me in a condescending way. Well I had a 2 week orientation. And I've been there for not even 2 months. Last night at shift change I was counting the narcotics with the NOC nurse. There was one pill left for a routine pain medication. Granted I owned up to the mistake of not following up with pharmacy about it because I thought new card arrived, but it was a different pain medication for the same patient with a similar name. Either way she yelled at me in front of our coworkers at the nurses station and told me if I do this again she's making me drive to the pharmacy...So I'm in an office next to the nurses station to use a computer to finish my documenting. The door is open so I hear the same nurse talking **** about me to the other nurses. I am just beyond frustrated, I already had a rough shift. All of my beds are full and half of my patients want their meds at specific times and get upset with me if I'm late. I just feel so stressed and behind schedule, I truly want to quit. How do I deal with all of this?

[SpankedInPittsburgh, DNP, RN]

To whom you speak about somebody else behind their back is keeping the Pig well fed and in a pen full of first class slop

[Purplemim, BSN]

On 2/6/2018 at 9:54 AM, TNT_RN09 said:

Man I hate that. Only 2 weeks orientation and having to deal with rude and mean staff. Then they wonder why they can't keep nurses

"Then they wonder why they can't keep nurse"

This statement right here! So much truth!

[scribblz, BSN, CNA, LPN]

LTC (neverending) med pass...while dealing with alarms... families... stopping to feed... stopping to do a dressing change. Then charting at the speed of light whenever you have a second. It's the toughest job I've ever done. You do your best, give yourself the credit for having done so and hold your head high. Because it does burn you out working like that only to deal with people snipping about whatever little thing you did wrong.

In my experience hard workers recognize other hard workers. Lazy and petty people tear down hard workers to try to make themselves look better. If they're talking about you then you know who they are and who you are.

Stay strong and do you!