Topics About 'Nurses Eat Their Young'.

How often have you witnessed or experienced peer to peer bullying as a nurse?

Hey all! So I have read many threads and comments alike on here about nurses eating their young. Heard many horror stories of nurses being quite frankly terrible to those whom they train and work with whom have less experience than themselves. I myse...

Every time I log on here see such a thread. Well let me see. My hospital has recently decided to hire only new grads or people who were new grads and worked in nursing homes etc. I have been amazed at the attitudes. Some signed contracts and got sent...

So my name is Jason thank you for taking the time to read my experience. A little Hx regarding my professional background. I graduated RN school in 2008 and landed a decent gig at a small community H on cape cod. A tele/med surg unit where I acc...

Hi there I am currently done my academic foundations in nursing and I am awaiting year two placement ( my program is a 1+3) structure. I am just trying to get a feel for what nursing will be like once I'm a new nurse, and I have heard experienced nur...

HELP!! This is my first nursing job on a med/surg floor. I have a meeting with my manager because other nurses are saying I don't know my patients and suspect I'm not doing my assessments. The real problem is that I have been put down so many times d...

I'm a nursing student planning on graduating in December and then working as a nurse at a hospital, I just wanted some opinions from other nurses on what I have been hearing about experienced nurses "eating their young" and giving new nurses a hard t...

Is it because they don't get paid well enough? Gossip? Mean doctors? New grads? stress at work?

Maybe this has been covered previously, but I am finding that it doesn't matter where I am, Nurses and CNAs are not very friendly to new hires. My first experience was in clinicals. Not one of the CNAs working there introduced themselves to me o...

Okay, so this post really has nothing to do with Part I except for the fact that I feel very strongly about both of these topics. First things first: One of my skills instructors told our class that the general public views nurses as the most h...

It was a breath of fresh air when I interviewed for a RN internship and the NM told be she does not tolerate bullying or nurses eating their young. My mouth almost dropped as she spoke those words, as I never seen a manager feel so strongly agai...

I wish I had a dollar for every post I've read claiming that "nurses are so mean," "nurses are nasty to each other," "nurses eat their young" or "my preceptor is picking on me for no good reason." And then if you add in all the nurses who are "fired ...

This is an older thread that still has significance in the nursing field today: I see this posted all the time. I always thought it was someone who deliberately embarrasses or has a tantrum for the express purpose of making the other person feel smal...