"Attitudes" in nursing career

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How do yu handle bad attitudes of your co -workers? Some of them show bad attitude because they are stressed out! I'm having difficulty of dealing bad attitude with nurses. Some co -workers say "just ignore them , that's thier personalities!" The thing is, if I see this kind of attitude, it makes me feel un-easy and I get so upset and ruins my night. I see this so often, I get overwhelmed and makes me think to quit because I don't want to deal with it. It's just not fair for us "CNA's" to be treated this way.I am a happy go lucky person, easy to get along with, friendly, sweet, sensitive and timid. I feel like I get walked all over because I don't speak up for myself!

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Specializes in Family Practice, Mental Health.
How do yu handle bad attitudes of your co -workers? Some of them show bad attitude because they are stressed out! I'm having difficulty of dealing bad attitude with nurses. Some co -workers say "just ignore them , that's thier personalities!" The thing is, if I see this kind of attitude, it makes me feel un-easy and I get so upset and ruins my night. I see this so often, I get overwhelmed and makes me think to quit because I don't want to deal with it. It's just not fair for us "CNA's" to be treated this way.I am a happy go lucky person, easy to get along with, friendly, sweet, sensitive and timid. I feel like I get walked all over because I don't speak up for myself!

My co-worker has been absolutely a bear to work with over the past few months. I Just found out that he was in the process of getting divorced from his wife of 26 years, as she filed for divorce. I'm glad that I just gave him a little extra space and didn't give him a hard time for being a little terse on occasion....but then again, I had an older brother who used to wrestle me down and drizzle spit into my face....Kinda gives a person some extra thick skin to deal with life with.

My advice is; no matter where you go or what you do in life, there's ALWAYS going to be someone who bugs you like you are getting bugged right now. Your power to stop someone from bugging you begins with communicating with them that there is a problem to begin with. If it continues after that, then you also need to learn how to let what bothers you go. It takes two to argue. Choose your battles wisely.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, ED.

Just work hard and be the very best CNA you can be. More than likely, if you are doing a good job, their attitude has nothing to do with you. Make sure all of your patients are clean, dry, and warm. Round on them frequently and fulfill those seemingly small requests, like making toast or a cup of tea, bringing a box of tissues, or whatever little thing they need, so the nurse can focus on other things. Focus on taking good care of your patients, and you can't go wrong.

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yeah! Your probably right! I realy need to learn to communicate and like you said let what bothers me go... Thanks

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Just work hard and be the very best CNA you can be. More than likely, if you are doing a good job, their attitude has nothing to do with you. Make sure all of your patients are clean, dry, and warm. Round on them frequently and fulfill those seemingly small requests, like making toast or a cup of tea, bringing a box of tissues, or whatever little thing they need, so the nurse can focus on other things. Focus on taking good care of your patients, and you can't go wrong.

Yeah! You are right most likely their attitude has nothing to do with me. I hear good compliments from anybody; co-workers, patients, family member that I am one of the best CNA's they have. This gives me strength though...

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There's always going to be someone who thinks they can get away with being a bully. I find that the older I get, the less I care about what anyone thinks of me, and that actually allows me to have less problems with co-workers, since they know they're wasting their time trying to bother me. (I don't work as a nurse, yet, but these types of people exist everywhere.) Also, while I am always friendly, I don't try to make friends, and there are few people who I would ever associate with outside of work. That definitely cuts down on my stress!

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Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

Someone can try to bully me, and I don't let them. I am a new nurse, but I have a brain too...just because you think I don't know what I'm doing, does not make it so. I am a friend to everyone, but I will call out anyone who compromises patient care.

I really don't care what others think, because I know I do my job to the best of my ability. They usually don't waste time trying to do more to me. I always make sure everything is caught up before i leave, and on occasion the reverse happens too.

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What happens when the bully is the charg nurse? I do my best to keep my space. She ususlly gives me the most diffucalt pt. and I ulually get the first admition of the night. I just :) and do my job to the best of my abillity. I usually have all my work done on time and she ends up staying overtime to finish up. (sometimes I think she does it on pourpes for the over time).:twocents:

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.

brush those people off. you are there to take care of your patients. be the best CNA you can.

you never know what happens when that person leaves work to really see why they are so grumpy. misery loves company, sometimes. and some people are just rude.

i know it's easier said than done, but ignore the bad behavior. people that scowl all the time get more wrinkles, anyway :)

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.

Well, they say to do an intership because it gives you the opportunity to test out a department and the hospital.

I don't have the heart to tell the nurse recruiter (that contacts me about every couple of weeks right now to "touch base") that my experience this past year is the very reason why I do not want to work for her facility.

I was treated ok, b/c I wasn't there full time, wasn't a nurse yet, etc...but I did pay attention to the politics that were taking place. I did not like what I saw and I thought that every nurse there gave 110% to their patients, and it was just sad to sit back and listen to the backstabbing.

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Well, they say to do an intership because it gives you the opportunity to test out a department and the hospital.

I don't have the heart to tell the nurse recruiter (that contacts me about every couple of weeks right now to "touch base") that my experience this past year is the very reason why I do not want to work for her facility.

I was treated ok, b/c I wasn't there full time, wasn't a nurse yet, etc...but I did pay attention to the politics that were taking place. I did not like what I saw and I thought that every nurse there gave 110% to their patients, and it was just sad to sit back and listen to the backstabbing.

I realized that working with all women are kinda bad! especially if those women have personal issues~~~

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.
I realized that working with all women are kinda bad! especially if this women have personal issues~~~

you won't be working with all women in nursing :)

we all have our personal issues..... some people just like drama.

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