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Psych nurses over 60

I have worked in psych for four years now as an RN, did other fields before. But I have noticed that the nurses that are over 60 want to have preferential treatment when it comes to assignments. Do you think that is fair? Some become angry and openly hostile in our 100 bed hospital when they cannot get their preferences and it is allowed. What do you think of this picture? We are talking about 15% of a workforce on all levels.

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    One thing I noticed about this forum, a word will be picked out of a thread that someone does not like or agree with and the main idea of the thread is lost. The remaining comments will all be fixated on the word or thought taken out of content and the responses after that will over and over only respond to the negative and forget all about the idea.

    I guess the original forum of nurses over 60 is lost to "humble".

    You would have reached a receptive audience had you presented your idea for discussion as something like "nurses with seniority who've become complacent and now want to operate on cruise control"...without framing it in ageism. Instead, YOU fixated on "psych nurses over 60"...repeatedly and inappropriately...and you deservedly got called on it.

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    These responses must be from the over 60 group. You looked too deep into the word "humble". I do not think that anyone just because they are older than another person should feel that they have the right to be intimidating to someone that they are working with purely because they have more knowledge. I will give you an example. You are assigned to pass medications for the shift and you are given another assignment that takes you away from that area for one hour. You return and the med room looks a little messy. The person subjected to the comment, the youngest nurse, was not in the area accused because of earlier interaction with the person. In turn you go to the nurse and scream at them, "HAVE YOU BEEN IN THAT MED ROOM?". One of the definitions of humble according to Webster is "not arrogant", this is the definition that I am referring to. I am aware that younger nurses can also be this way. but at this particular facility the only ones I have come into contact with that are behaving that way are the older crowd and it is a limited number, but it is present.

    I'll be honest this really doesn't even make sense to me but fwiw if I left my med room to do other duties and returned to find a mess I'd be ****** also. FWIW although sometimes I feel like I'm 60 I'm not either. :D

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