RN coworker discouraged me

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Specializes in Dementia / Hospice.

My nurse co worker made a comment that kinda irked me. Wondering what I should do with this situation. I am going back to school for an LPN-BSN. I am halfway through the program. Anyways I'm explaining to her in a work conversation, a friendly one, that I am no longer eligible for the COVID vaccine because my 4 year old son and my 35 year old brother both got dx with viral triggered autoimmune type 1 diabetes. She hits me with the "You really shouldn't be a nurse because you are a hypochondriac." She has also called me "crazy" in the past. she is not joking she is "constructively criticizing" me. Should I ignore her, get my BSN and become her boss until she retires? 

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Specializes in New Critical care NP, Critical care, Med-surg, LTC.

Some things (and people) aren't worth your breath, and they certainly don't deserve to take up space in your life, or your brain. I would ignore her comments entirely, they are obviously completely baseless.

However, your plan to become her boss does sound like a good career plan. ?  Best wishes with the rest of your schooling, and your career. 

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Specializes in Dementia / Hospice.

Thank you, ❤️ Your comment was exactly what I needed to read.

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47 minutes ago, LPNwithBIGdreams said:

My nurse co worker made a comment that kinda irked me. Wondering what I should do with this situation.

Stop having personal conversations with her and she won't have anything personal to comment on ?

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Specializes in ER.

I'm curious about the possibility of the vaccine triggering type 1 diabetes. Because this happened in your family, you should not take this vaccine? There viruses everywhere, I'm interested in how this particular virus is being singled out as a danger to trigger diabetes.

Regarding your coworker, ignore her and don't engage. She doesn't make a lot of sense.

 

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After a few years of arguing with other nurses on this forum about everything from etiquette to the definition of "bullying" to life and death decisions, I've finally come to a profound realization: 

Nurses have opinions and some of those opinions are dumb. 

Go with my blessing in your quest to become her boss for life. Except by the time you get there, you'll probably meet an even bigger blowhard in a higher up position, and it will cost you at least a masters degree to become her boss. And then you'll run across someone even worse in an even higher position, and so on and so on until you just have to use your healthcare background to infiltrate the federal infrastructure as a top advisor and then engineer a coup to install yourself as dictator for life of this forsaken country and rule its once free and proud peoples with an iron fist. 

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Specializes in ICU, ER, Home Health, Corrections, School Nurse.

She is probably jealous because you're going back to school.  Remember, the best revenge is living well!

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Specializes in CRNA, Finally retired.

I'm older so if you want me to supervise her in hell, I am offering now.  I plan to be there anyway supervising people that don't pack their own groceries.

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Specializes in retired LTC.
5 hours ago, LPNwithBIGdreams said:

..... Should I ignore her, get my BSN and become her boss until she retires? 

Great karma!! What goes around, will come around. As I so believe!

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Specializes in NICU/Mother-Baby/Peds/Mgmt.
6 hours ago, Cowboyardee said:

After a few years of arguing with other nurses on this forum about everything from etiquette to the definition of "bullying" to life and death decisions, I've finally come to a profound realization: 

Nurses have opinions and some of those opinions are dumb. 

Go with my blessing in your quest to become her boss for life. Except by the time you get there, you'll probably meet an even bigger blowhard in a higher up position, and it will cost you at least a masters degree to become her boss. And then you'll run across someone even worse in an even higher position, and so on and so on until you just have to use your healthcare background to infiltrate the federal infrastructure as a top advisor and then engineer a coup to install yourself as dictator for life of this forsaken country and rule its once free and proud peoples with an iron fist. 

If anyone is going to be a dictator here in the US I think it should be a nurse!

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Specializes in ER.
5 hours ago, Nunya said:

If anyone is going to be a dictator here in the US I think it should be a nurse!

Not a businessman from New York who has the maturity of a 2 year old??

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Specializes in Oncology, ID, Hepatology, Occy Health.
17 hours ago, Sour Lemon said:

Stop having personal conversations with her and she won't have anything personal to comment on ?

Perfect advice.

You can remain civil, say good morning etc. and maintain a civil tone when you have to speak to her in a professional context, but avoid all personal chit chat. Take a book to coffee break and be engrossed in it just in case! 

And ignore her. You're better than that. And good luck with your project.  

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