FrancescaF

I feel like I've exhausted my family and co-workers about the issues I have with my orientee. I'm reaching out to experience nurses and new grads to help me with my situation. I work at a very large hospital in Pre/Post. I'm an older nurse with only a year and a half experience in the nursing field. I have a new grad orientee currently that is 10 years my senior in age. She has been incredibly condescending, indignant, and generally annoying since day one. I have a true lack of experience in this field but have had an orientee put on my because I have a reputation to be extremely good with patients and kind, receptive to new nurses. She questions everything I do and say, attempts to correct my charting, invents problematic issues with patients. She is very intelligent and I respect her questions and continual desire to learn. But, I leave work everyday feeling resentful and irritated. How can I learn to cope better in this relationship and make it mutually beneficial and not shrouded in a passive-aggressive power struggle?