Unwelcoming Facility/Shunning

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Hi, 

I've been a nurse for close to 9 years now. I recently started working at this small nursing facility as a manager. There is this nurse who will also be my boss who I've been shadowing. It started out okay, but now I sense other people at the office are shunning me, and making passive aggressive comments around me. They would always talk to eachother, eat lunch together and isolate me. I don't want to seem desperate and try to always seek their acceptance. I'm also a different race than the rest of the staff in the office, some who are not nurses. I ask the nurse who's supposed to be "training" me today if she could give me feedback on how I'm doing , she said "You need to be more confident". I have no issues with  my confidence, but I feel like being an empath also I pick up on how they're trying to push me away because I'm different to them. I need this job for the time being. It's sad that people have the need to hurt others who simply want to make a honest living to support their families. What should I do? My supervisor and DON are also good friends. 

On 12/15/2021 at 7:05 PM, HopetheEmpath said:

"You need to be more confident".

Out of curiosity, how did you respond to this? ^

Specializes in PICU.

OP:

Did you ask how to be more confident?

Was there any specific scenarios she could reference and give you feedback on how to be more confident?

I would follow-up - perhaps there is something that she is seeing that you may not be aware of,

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