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I just found out from this forum that what i am experiencing at work is called horizontal violence and that it is an unacceptable behavior. Everything that was definced under horizontal violence I have experience or have witnessed happening to somebody else at work. So what do I do if there is a main bully with several "brown nosers" who reports to her and gets other people in trouble. I have spoken to the administrator and documented the most recent events and have done so with another employee who is also being harassed. So far nothing has been done. I think even the corporate office is aware and have been made aware 3 years ago by several employees who complained but was later fired or forced to quit. Do I have other options aside from quitting? The main bully is considered "untouchable" and he himself said so.

So there is a name for the kind of abuse that I experience at work everyday. I thought I wasn't fit to be a nurse because I could not take the criticism, sarcasm and fault-finding of my DON. Several times I was reduced to tears (in the privacy of the bathroom) after being yelled at and humiliated in front of other nurses, staff and family members while our administrator looks on and turns a blind eye. Several nurses and CNAs (those that she does not favor) goes through this experience almost on a daily basis. I thought I was being sensitive and just need to toughen up. I am not a bad nurse. I am conscientious about my work and my residents love me but I am given a new position in which I was not formally trained for, not given directions, no mentor to ask for help. Plus I inherited the problems of the previous staff who held this job. I actually had to learn to perform my job on my own. So far I have done my job well and in a short period of time i have gained the respect and trust of my CNAs. But despite this I get yelled at, made feel incompetent and totally treated without respect.