Toxic Healthcare Personalities

Straydandelion · Apr 10, 2009

If you mean one that could possibly be dangerous to patients and also difficult to work with, I would have to say someone with NO common sense would be the worst.

Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2009

The ones that a happy just doing the bare minimum and glued to their chairs the rest of the time are the ones that really get to me. Also anyone who has ever utterred the words "that is not my job".

caliotter3 · Apr 10, 2009

An individual with mental problems who went around the facility bragging about her special relationship with the new DON. She frequently created med errors for other nurses and played "constant snitch" with her little shenanigans. Totally unbearable. No one wanted to give report to her and no one wanted to take report from her. She was promptly fired when her last foray into backstabbing resulted in a resident's death. Don't know what happened to her after that but her license is no longer on the Board's web site. She should be doing jail time.

Flightline, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2009

I hate the latecomers. When you walk in fifteen minutes early, they're all ready to give you report, but when the end of your shift comes, they've already called in to say they're "running a little late." Then they finally get there and dilly-dally before they take report. That's about enough to make me go balistic.

getoverit, BSN, RN, EMT-P · Apr 10, 2009

I was thinking about the know-it-all forum too. As far as toxic personalities, there are some who are chronically negative, habitually late, immune to constructive criticism, etc. and I just try to be a Zen person and take it as it comes.

What I don't like are the ones who aren't smart enough to realize they're not the smartest person in the room and what I find to be truly dangerous are the ones who seem pathologically incapable of admitting when they've made a mistake. Offering excuses piled on top of excuses to the point of absurdity. In fact, I believe that they are lying not only to themselves, but to us and the patient's family. It's made me wonder what kind of dirt do they have on administration to keep their job.

Those are the co-workers who I don't miss a bit.

Drysolong · Apr 10, 2009

Healthcare workers who lose sight of the reason we are here, "the patient". Because of this attitude, they refuse to assist, answer questions or share their experience or expertise with others on the "team" on behalf of the patient. (I don't mean do other's work)

Belfegor · Apr 10, 2009

i think that judgmental people are the ones that push all the wrong buttons for me.

they have an opinion (usually negative) about everything and everyone- are quick to jump to conclusions and most of the time, assume the worst out of any given person or situation.

you feel that they are constantly "watching" you and will jump on your case with great pleasure just as soon as you may make a mistake.

to those people, i want to say: get a life!

i can't begin to understand how such a person could be a nurse!

to me, a nurse is someone with the ability to walk in your shoes. someone who will never judge you, and will give you the benefit of the doubt. someone able to feel compassion, and someone that doesn't take him or herself so seriously that his or her standards are the only one out there.

am i confusing a nurse for a none ?

i am no none (by any mean), yet i hope to have this non-judgmental , compassionate attitude...and it does not just apply to my patients! because i believe that we too need some compassion and understanding from one another!

we have a tough job~all of us~compassion amongst us would make such a difference in our profession and in our daily life.:heartbeat

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Valerie Salva, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2009

The lazy, the stupid, the mean (especially the mean), the threatened, the perpetual victims, all of them drive me crazy.

lpnflorida · Apr 10, 2009

The constant complainers. I swear they would complain when too busy they complain when they are not busy enough. They complain when they have too many patient's. They complain when not enough patients and they are econned... It's as if they have absolutely no social skills beyond complaining. I almost forgot they constantly complain about their co-workers also.

Valerie Salva, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2009

i think that judgmental people are the ones that push all the wrong buttons for me.
they have an opinion (usually negative) about everything and everyone- are quick to jump to conclusions and most of the time, assume the worst out of any given person or situation.
you feel that they are constantly "watching" you and will jump on your case with great pleasure just as soon as you may make a mistake.
to those people, i want to say: get a life!
i can't begin to understand how such a person could be a nurse!
to me, a nurse is someone with the ability to walk in your shoes. someone who will never judge you, and will give you the benefit of the doubt. someone able to feel compassion, and someone that doesn't take him or herself so seriously that his or her standards are the only one out there.
am i confusing a nurse for a none ?
i am no none (by any mean), yet i hope to have this non-judgmental , compassionate attitude...and it does not just apply to my patients! because i believe that we too need some compassion and understanding from one another!
we have a tough job~all of us~compassion amongst us would make such a difference in our profession and in our daily life.:heartbeat
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a "none"? do you mean no one, or a non-nurse? i'm confused.

caliotter3 · Apr 10, 2009

A "none"? Do you mean no one, or a non-nurse? I'm confused.

Or perhaps a "nun"?