Nobody Likes A Tattle Tail

[sassyrn333]

I am wishing that (seeing as we are all educated professionals and adults) more people would approach the individual they have an issue with, rather than running to the manager for every little indiscretion they find. IMHO, the manager should not be bothered with petty BS. Unless someone dies, is injured, is given a wrong med, or a nurse is diverting drugs, the manager shouldn't be bothered. Speak with the individual, or go to the charge nurse. We are all grown ups and we ALL make mistakes--even you tattle tails out there!

Maybe its because nursing is predominantly a female profession, because I NEVER encountered this problem in the military. Tattle tailing was seriously frowned upon by everyone, including high leadership (I believe you might get your ass kicked for tattling in some military circles). It deteriorates team cohesion and morale. It also shows your superiors that you are too incompetent to handle your team's problems internally.

One could even go as far as saying that tattling creates a hostile work environment....

[cjcsoon2bnp, MSN, RN, NP]

I completely agree that if you have a personal issue with someone the first thing to do is try and sort it out by confronting them about it before dobbing them in. It's the professional thing to do.

If it's a HUGE issue that can't be resolved then management need to get involved in it.

At my work the latest thing is 'disrespectful behaviours' form. I am soooo against this. It really isn't encouraging people to resolve conflict in a constructive way. Already people are being reported for the most stupid issues and quite frankly I think it's the worst thing they could have come up with.

Ahh bureaucracy at its finest, a form for everything and everything has a form. Its sad that trees actually have to be cut down so gossips and troublemakers can waste paper to write about Nurse Jane Doe forgot to switch some EKG leads for this one patient one time and the gossip thinks that Jane should be talked to by management. Its crap like this that annoys the heck out of me!

!Chris