emmacaitlinRN

I have been working at a nursing home since late summer and it's not great at all, 18+ patients at a time the med pass is very heavy, getting the treatments squeezed in seems hard, and on top of that one of the more senior nurses who is per diem (I am younger and obviously new, and I am a staff employee) is being somewhat vicious in asking what my hours will be and what wing of the floor I will be on, telling me my job is more than the med pass, its to manage the cnas, do treatments etc, and I responded in kind, letting her know I had been doing that stuff (she was just working the other hall; I was working normally her hall that night). She is worried I am going to her her per diem hours as i am new staff. There is tension there between some of the senior nurses and a number of us who are younger and new who are now staff. I am unsure how to handle the tension verbally. I used to be a cna for years and am quite good at managing them.