Rant!!!

[Melfldrn]

So im coming up on my one year anniversary of being an RN, I have a BSN. I was a MA for 13 years before and during nursing school. I work on a skilled nursing/rehab floor in a LTC facility, but our unit has no LTC pts. There are a handful of very good LPNs on this unit, but mostly RNs and few of us are new nurses. There are a few LPNs that are so insecure and obsessed about there own title that they are constantly looking for tiny little clerical errors of mine on a daily basis. I've heard them say about the other new RNs that "these are our brilliant RRRRNNNNNs that they keep hiring" etc. They seem to single me out because i have experience in the medical field and I'm not as green as the other new nurses. I know that this story is as old as dirt, but when will it end? These are women in their 40s and 50s! It's maddening. They go to extreme lengths to find errors of mine and when i take the time to look at said error, 9 times out of 10 they aren't my errors, but they create mandatory in services for the entire staff for an error that they think i made. It is so ridiculous. I've been desperately looking for another job, as this isn't the type of nursing i want to do anyway, but it's a job and its the year experience I've needed to get to where i want to be. This place is affecting every area of my life..family, kids, mental health, etc.

Sorry, just need to get that out :/

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

That sucks. How nice if they could support and even mentor you with all their experience. What a difference that would make.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

OK - I'm confused. Who are "they" that create the useless inservices that everyone has to attend? The LPNs? How is this possible? Who is actually managing this unit?

Seems like a very strange situation in which the 'inmates are running the asylum' and there's no effective leadership. Unless this can be changed by prompting an actual manager to take charge, I agree with PP - best option is just to lay low until you can find a new job.

[Melfldrn]

You are correct, and I am actively seeking a new job. Basically yes, the LPNs speak to the unit managers who end up writing up these in service forms for the entire building to read and sign because one person made a tiny, non-life threatening, clerical error - which was, most of the time, a misunderstanding. It's bizarre. I've never seen anything like it. Very poor leadership. I was having a rough shift before i wrote this, when i step back and read it now, i can deal it because i know i won't be there much longer!

[Melfldrn]

I should also mention, I'm not singling out LPNs. I am quite aware of the imaginary line that is so frequently crossed between LPNs and RNs. That's why I'm so frustrated. I came into this job knowing that an experienced LPN trumps a new RN any day. My closest co-worker in the facility is another LPN, and she has taught me so much in my first year of nursing that i will never forget...it just seems that most of them are more critical of their own title than anyone else, and they project that into all new nurses coming in. It's quite sad.