Has any one out there experienced the old saying "nurses eat their young"
I worked in a hospital on the floor from hell! All three shifts of nurses were horrible to one another.
Very clickish groups on each shift who harassed, made fun of, talked about on the floor in ear shot of patients and other staff members about nurses that worked on this floor.
I've never seen or heard any thing so unprofessional in my life.
It was awful. When I started the first thing I noticed was all the talk. Right in front of me a new nurse on the floor, these nurses did not have one good thing to say about any of the other nurses. I've never experienced any thing like this before and I've been a nurse for 13 years. I'm talking critising the safety of other nurses right at the front desk of a very busy floor with patients and family members walking about. This was a daily occurance on this floor.
I hate this behavior and I'm a bit of a rebel so of course I started making comments like "well, if you haven't got any thing good to say then don't say it." Or "I really don't care to hear all this, I'd rather be able to form my own opinion." One nurse in paticular was badgered and picked on constantly. While I was trying to chart one evening, this night nurse came on and at the front desk, with patients and family members and other nurses and aids all in ear shot started picking on this nurse; very loudly I might add. I couldn't take it any more and said "so and so; get off her case" the nurse picking on this nurse then said "this is none of your business", I then said "you've made it my business by simply harassing one of my co-workers in front of me, not to mention every one else that can her you"
Well you can imagine what my life on this floor ended up like.
I and other nurses were picked on to the point to where it was very difficult to work, and eventually difficut to even walk on the floor.
The next thing I know I'm being repremanded by my nurse manager because these nurses are complaining that they cannot stand to work with me.
So, at that point I started tellling this nurse manager every thing that had occured.
The next thing you know I'm on a step 2 action and two weeks ago I was terminated.
Now the reason for my termination was because I refused to come in to chart in the computer medications that I failed to chart. These medications were charted on the MAR, I had no doubt that I had given all the medications and that my patients were safe.
I didn't come in as asked because my daughter was in town from Chicago, I had just started on antibiotics and was running a temp.
It was a Saturday and Sunday that I failed to chart meds in the computer. I had 6 patients that day, ran non-stop until it was difficult to think any longer. The nurse manager was requesting me to come in at 10:00 at night that following Monday. The nurse manager kept saying "this is a big risk to you, you really should come in" I knew I'd be there in 6 hours to chart and just didn't go in.
I was especially anoid when my nurse manager said "this is a big risk to you" when during the weekend I took care of 6 acutely ill patients on an oncology unit, no break, no lunch and she's acting concerned about what "risks" I'm taking?
Hummmmm
I would love to hear all of your comments on this?
It's really amazing, in a bad way, that asking an aid, giving direction to an aid or giving orders to an aid can be construed as being rude. In these politically correct times it seems as if we can be called "rude" by anyone at anytime for anything, even if we're just doing our jobs.
If your aid left the patient filthy, it's her fault but your license -- a conversation I've had with many a "patient care tech". Each one seems dimmer than the last on the unit that I recently, blessedly left. Patients don't care about your license or how short staffed we are -- they just want to be clean and comfortable. More, much more, importantly for us, the clean patient will be less likely to develop infections. This is why those little, mundane, routine things like mouth care, peri care, bathing, clean sheets, are important, but the staff assigned to "support" us think their phone calls and gossip are much more important than doing what they are paid to do.
I don't have any answers to this problem; I just want you to know that you are not alone and your experience is one that I have had also.
Wishing you great success in your next job! There's lots of them out there.
i worked in a situation like that about a year ago where all the nurses were out to hang one another and if you new forget it, I was there 6yrs so fortunately they left me alone because I was in the facility longer than any of them but I also had to back up and protect a few new girls because of the shameful things they were saying and doing because before that I was put in a position as a new aide and the people didn't like the fact that everything i did was slow and then they finally terminated me and told me during the closing before i left that i was incompetent and not to go for nursing to find another field because i was not going to make it
then 3yrs later a nursing license the rn that was the don for the other place didn't know how to do squat that was on the floor because of being in the office for so long and I had to train her and help her out look of surprise was the best, sorry I will stop the rambling, but I believe there will be a time that the person who did that to you will have to own up to someone else for their behavior lots of luck, i believe you did all you could do and the charting on the computer is double work and if you charted in the mar where is was suppose to be I believe these people know how to read: it really could have waited
Why are people so nasty to each other. Yes, I know we can't all get along, there are always people you like better than others. It's not too bad where I work to be honest. Although I don't like my boss! LOL
Stitchie
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It's really amazing, in a bad way, that asking an aid, giving direction to an aid or giving orders to an aid can be construed as being rude. In these politically correct times it seems as if we can be called "rude" by anyone at anytime for anything, even if we're just doing our jobs.
If your aid left the patient filthy, it's her fault but your license -- a conversation I've had with many a "patient care tech". Each one seems dimmer than the last on the unit that I recently, blessedly left. Patients don't care about your license or how short staffed we are -- they just want to be clean and comfortable. More, much more, importantly for us, the clean patient will be less likely to develop infections. This is why those little, mundane, routine things like mouth care, peri care, bathing, clean sheets, are important, but the staff assigned to "support" us think their phone calls and gossip are much more important than doing what they are paid to do.
I don't have any answers to this problem; I just want you to know that you are not alone and your experience is one that I have had also.
Wishing you great success in your next job! There's lots of them out there.