Shift wars

Hi everybody. I tried doing a search for this topic, but couldn't find much pertaining to my question. Does anybody here work in a hospital where something is done to curb animosity between shifts? I'm finally just tired of it. The day shift thinks nights does nothing, the evening shift thinks days only has three patients and should be able to do more, the night shift thinks the evening shift leaves too much for them to do. We've all heard these things, and I'm actually not immune. I've complained myself about other shifts. Now my goal for the next year is to NOT complain, but try to find ways to help ourselves work more as a team. What I REALLY wish we could do is have everyone walk in everyone else's shoes. Just work each shift for about a month. Of course we can't do this, but I think it would go a long way to help in understanding the obstacles that other shifts have to contend with. Does anyone have any ideas? I'd certainly appreciate it!! Thanks! :)

Hi,

I think what you may be looking for is info on horizontal violence. Lots of info on why we treat each other so poorly. Google the term horizontal violence.

There is a great article by Caroline Hastie about the topic and suggestions on how we can avoid it. Check out http://www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/hastie02.html

I hope this helps your search.

Ida