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How sad nursing OUR nursing is! So many of these posts hit the nail on the head, and/BUT all we want to do is take care of the PATIENT. ??? IS THERE HOPE AN ANSWER???

I have been in many situations such as this young nurse. Always have found management to be a cold hearted unhelpful bunch, and most times your fellow nurses the same. Why I stayed, well I guess that's my ? folly, ? stupitity, ? who knows but for this young woman I'd like to say there are many types of nursing. I have worked in several different departments over the years, i guess my way of coping with bad/ugly situations was to move. As it happened, i applied to "different" types of jobs then where I had felt unappreciated/abused and found a better situation. Go for something different, stay for awhile learn that area, if not happy there, TRY something different again. Don't loose your heart to these Godless money grubbing over lords only concerned with making money for the heads of corporations. They don't care about our patients, find somewhere you can give your best and be happy and take care of the patient. thanks,

I have worked in an OR for 16+ years and have been bullied throughout. This behavior greatly decreases the safety we ALL are trying to provide the patient. When once again, having to work with this unstable doctor, one can not help but knot up on the inside. This is because you know that it does not matter how prepared we are this dangerous MD will find fault in something/anything. More than not, you are trying to prevent the wrath of this unstable individual from coming down on everyone in the room. Focused thinking on the patient needs-- now is focused thinking of an unpredictable bully. My understanding is that risk management and directors will NOT stand up to the bully either! I've been told "oh that's just dr so and so, just ignore him ", "he brings in a lot of money", "he might take his business somewhere else". Nothing ever said about the patient who depends on us to protect them. I'm afraid I'm just a poor old dumb nurse, but someone must have an idea, something that might change things for the patient and all the employees in that room? Maybe if patients actually know WHO their doctor is they would see another doctor. I have just changed my position from OR nurse to a different department. Be aware, the bullying gets worse as the nurse gets older, my two "older" nurse friends have left too. One retired, and one to a different hospital, where she fully expects to be up against the same type of bullying just in a different hospital. We hear much talk of bullies, in all walks of life and school, where is the champion with the answer? And maybe most frightening of all is that --if the poor bullied tech. did say or do anything where would his next job be??? I shudder to think.