Mary0000

Nope that's not it!

Ha, it exist if you have the beauty & brain! You will be surprise at how jealousy operates...sometimes having experience is not enough if you don't have anything else to offer & others do! By the way, who cares if one has more experience, that's good for them, eventually you will too & there will be another new grad who comes walking through the door but won't be the nurse who tries to belittle another nurse but instead focus on patient care & being there as a support for the new nurse... You too had to crawl before you walk in gaining experience in nursing. Didn't you?

I have no problem with an experienced nurse nor any type of leadership. This has all to do with respect and that should come naturally as with common sense. Also I have been told that the "experience" nurse has a jealous streak...

Here's a follow up from the previous post. Let's just say I'm no longer in training & the "preceptor" is still trying to give me orders. I have told her if I have any questions, I would let her know as I am no longer in training. Something as simple as she's telling me when I can go to lunch, for ex: She'll say, "you can go to lunch now", like she's my boss. Instead of us agreeing on specific times that works best for the both of us, she just want to be in control. We have the same job title as nurses & The only nurses working on the floor. She talks nicely to all the other workers (techs) & respects them but when she approaches me, she tries to give me orders. It's impossible to work with her. I was hoping we could work as a team but it's not turning out that way. I have gone to extent of giving her a thank you gift for precepting but she still is rude & unappreciative. She gossips with the techs and I have walked up and overheard her gossiping. They swarm around her because she's negative about everything. Do you think she does this because she is trying to run me off the job or because she wants to have all of the attention on her when it comes to knowledge & leadership in the area because she's been there longer than me? I am debating on putting my notice in to leave this area because it's impossible to work in a negative environment.

It started at week 1 and now we are going on week 3...and it's getting worser by the week

Hi I need help on making a wise decision. I just started my career as an LPN and my first week has been hell. I was hoping this dream job would focus on patient care but so far it has been gossiping, a lack of respect from colleagues due to my preceptor trying to make me look incompetent. I was put with this preceptor to train but so far the preceptor leaves out important details as far as where to chart important information therefore the doctors are complaining to management that I'm not doing the job correctly. Management believes everything the preceptor says and gives her high fives and congratulates her on doing a great job. I'm thinking the preceptor is making up lies about me behind my back to make me look incompetent. Management and the preceptor seem to be good friends. The manager makes her the leader in the area and totally disregard that we both are LPNs. She prefer to treat me like a tech. Management makes these huge announcements in front of other team members that the preceptor is the leader and we must follow her lead. I've tried to talk to manager but she always says, ask your preceptor if you have questions. When I am seeing patients, the preceptor interrupts my time with the patients and states, speed it up with your assessments In front of the patients". She also will whisper to the doctors that I take a long time with assessments so now the doctors have started to interrupt my time with the patients. The preceptor sits and gossips with the techs and since her influence on them, now they don't have conversations with me and have no respect. When I took this job as a new grad, I was hoping to focus on patient care and just being there for my patients as well as a positive welcoming atmosphere but it has been drama and backstabbing. I graduated at the top of my class and for someone to try and make me look incompetent because I'm not being trained correctly and because I'm the new employee is unacceptable. Being that this is a dream job for me, should I leave or stick it out and just ignore this behavior?