Nurses Eat Their Young

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How often have you witnessed or experienced peer to peer bullying as a nurse?

NICU Guy, BSN, RN

4,161 Posts

Specializes in NICU.

Never in four years of nursing.

brownbook

3,413 Posts

Never in 34 years of nursing.

Davey Do

10,476 Posts

Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

Welcome to AN.com, Darian!

This is a subject which has been discussed numerous times in threads, articles, and humorous images.

Good luck!

Davey Do

10,476 Posts

Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

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Tenebrae, BSN, RN

1,951 Posts

Specializes in Mental Health, Gerontology, Palliative.

Once as a student, never in my six years of nursing

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nursel56

7,078 Posts

Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

To be perfectly honest, never. As a matter of fact, somehow I made it through a few decades before I even heard of NETY or bully. I've heard of buddy in nursing, though. That is what the hospital called the nurse assigned to help you after classroom orientation. The medical students and residents had preceptors. The nurses had buddies. Maybe that was their subtle way of reminding the old bats to act like a buddy when they really would rather act like a bully.

The above is not intended to dismiss anyone else's experience with this. I've read some pretty horrendous examples here.

Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

In 46* years, never

Trauma Columnist

traumaRUs, MSN, APRN

88 Articles; 21,249 Posts

Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I think you might need to add more to this in order for us to help.

I've been in nursing for 26 years and nope never been bullied.

elkpark

14,633 Posts

Very, very, very little in >30 years of nursing (no more so, I'm sure, than occurs in other fields). I've seen plenty of nurses bullied by physicians, but that's a different matter. Can we please just drop this tired old cliche'?

cleback

1,381 Posts

Never in 8 years. Well, seen one bullied but not for being new.

TruvyNurse

354 Posts

What do you define as bullying? Some young nurses these days consider constructive criticism to be "bullying"....

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