AngelCat

A huge thanks to all of you that responded tonight (and so quickly at that!). I really needed to get this off my chest (my shirt feels looser)and relieved to know that I'm not the only one who would feel as I do. Wishing all of you a pleasant night.

Re: jlsRN That is an option I've seriously been considering. There is no guarantee that the next place I go will be without it problems, but hopefully not as bad or any worse than this environment. Thanks

Hi pslam, Good question and I've often wondered. What I will say is that her and her husband were both physician's in their native Russia but were not accepted here in Canada. She was bitter about that. They have settled to work here as U/S techs. She is terribly biased where patients from her homeland are concerned...really goes out of her way for them. She does not hold nurses in high regard...we are "only nurses" and in her country, nurses do housekeeping duties besides bedside care. She was surprised to find the same is not true here. Perhaps she is so embittered she can't express herself any other way.

Hi and thanks. Yes I have spoken to her...she's not interested in a heart-to-heart. She denies what she has said or points to her head to indicate that it is all in yours...that "perhaps you are upset about something and it is your imagination". She is a real piece of work. However, our director recognizes and has admitted that she not a team player and easily gets into a frenzy.

I am having to deal with a situation at work right now which almost has me at the end of my rope. I'll try to keep this as brief but as clear as possible. I currently work in an OB ultrasound dept and my duties are that as nurse, reception/secretary, NST tech etc. I work with an ultrasound tech who has to be one the most difficult people I have ever had as a co-worker. It is obvious that she does not cope well when the clinic is very busy. When it is quiet, she can be fun, but when it's busy, she becomes insulting, derogatory, very tense and verbally abusive in the presence of patients and their families- and as I'm the one she sees 95% of the time, I get the brunt of it. I let her provoke me into arguements :argue:. She has such a long history of complaints made against her by patients that it's mind boggling. But, her whole demeanor changes when the docs come around to review U/S results - very sweet and pleasant. I used to cover for her whenever I received a patient complaint by stating a lanuage barrier was to blame for the misunderstanding. I am fed up doing this. I now send the patients to our director, but he only talks to her and does not take any action. Her behaviour has not changed. She can be cruel e.g. 3 weeks (and again at 4 months) after my husband died, she smiled and suggested I wear a brighter coloured blouse/join a dating club and go find a new man. Sorry, this is not a brief as I had planned. Has anyone here else had a similar experience? :grn: