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I am about done. Where I work there is this culture that allows for day shift nurses to be flat out ******* to the offgoing night shifters during report. It is a poisonous culture on my otherwise great unit.
It stands in such contrast to a few wonderful day shift nurses who will come in and help solve problems and are a calming presence.
The term "nurses eat their young" needs to be put to rest.....in every single career path, you will find people who aren't willing to help you succeed....it's not just a nursing issue and I for one am sick of hearing it.
Quite right, in some work environments it is the experienced and older nurse who is on the menu.
Those night shifters will eat anything.
Yep! You have to be tough to work nights! If you daylight-types would only realize that we crusty tough night hawks have sleep some time so our scales and crusties don't fall off. That time is usually the afternoon, sometimes the morning and the early evening, and then is precisely when the cable company rep calls to sell me a tier of premium channels I neither want or need. If it isn't that, it's the woman with the annoying nasal voice trying her darndest to sell me health insurance for all our cats and dogs.
Daytimers have persistent paperboys, school meetings, homework, deliveries, family stuff...
I'd say it's a tossup but each half will think they're under greater stress, but it really is about equal. Sometimes it's worse for one an some days worse for the other.
We don't eat every thing we stumble across -- we do have standards and pride. We draw the line at the food in the breakroom kitchen!
The term "nurses eat their young" needs to be put to rest.....in every single career path, you will find people who aren't willing to help you succeed....it's not just a nursing issue and I for one am sick of hearing it.
I have to disagree. Coming from a few different fields myself (military, criminal justice, construction, martial arts) it is much more prevalent in nursing in my experience. In some fields, people just want to test what you know. In others, they want to see how tough you are or if you can hang (can they trust you?). When patient care is a priority, neither of those are appropriate.
Just my 0.02.
I have to disagree. Coming from a few different fields myself (military, criminal justice, construction, martial arts) it is much more prevalent in nursing in my experience. In some fields, people just want to test what you know. In others, they want to see how tough you are or if you can hang (can they trust you?). When patient care is a priority, neither of those are appropriate.Just my 0.02.
It's the same thing in nursing...pt care is a priority, and the experienced ones want to know whether one is mentally tough AND smart enough to do this business...it is owed to our pts in their vulnerable state to be BOTH.
bsyrn, ASN, RN
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The term "nurses eat their young" needs to be put to rest.....in every single career path, you will find people who aren't willing to help you succeed....it's not just a nursing issue and I for one am sick of hearing it.