Why is it that nurses always report other nurses?

[Springdaisy04]

Why is it that nurses are always reporting other nurses. Nurses have gotten fired over it. I myself got fired because of nurses reporting on me and telling lies on me. I had the don from hell at my first job. She would yell at me and humiliate me in front of others. The other nurses would say things about me that was not true. The DON would always believe them .i ended being fired because she claimed my documentation was a problem. At another job, my supervisor refused to back me up when a patient refused assessment upon admission. I was terminated from that job too. There is so much backstabbing in nursing. I can't understand why. Any advice on how to handle backstabbing nurses.

12/19/198112/19/1981

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Why is it that nurses are always reporting other nurses. Nurses have gotten fired over it. I myself got fired because of nurses reporting on me and telling lies on me. I had the don from hell at my first job. She would yell at me and humiliate me in front of others. The other nurses would say things about me that was not true. The DON would always believe them .i ended being fired because she claimed my documentation was a problem. At another job, my supervisor refused to back me up when a patient refused assessment upon admission. I was terminated from that job too. There is so much backstabbing in nursing. I can't understand why. Any advice on how to handle backstabbing nurses.

12/19/198112/19/1981

I haven't noticed any great tendency on the part of nurses to "report" other nurses. In fact, it's usually relatively rare because no one wants to go through the trouble of writing someone up and following through. Only the most egregious of offenses ever gets written up, as far as I know. So this begs the question, what is it that you are doing that keeps getting you into trouble? Is your nursing practice egregiously unsafe? Or have to failed to get alone with your colleagues. Either will get you into trouble and terminated from jobs.

While there is SOME backstabbing in nursing -- just like there is some backstabbing in society at large -- most nurses are too busy to worry about trying to get someone else into trouble. Unless that person is demonstrably unsafe or difficult to get along with. I'd suggest some serious introspection to help you determine what it is you're doing that keeps getting you into trouble at work.

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

I know of one nurse who exemplified all that and it took them YEARS to be fired...there was a HUGE binder of their offenses in the office and it took a new supervisor to write them up and eventually ending up being fired because this person eventually caused so much toxicity amongst the rest of the staff that this person deserved to be fired.

Ha! In the gov world, these people get promoted to supervisory positions.

I know people who have rearranged their schedules and their lives purely to avoid working with these walking disasters that must have had blackmail material on someone because they were like really good Velcro — stuck forever, impossible to dislodge.

[SmilingBluEyes]

SOMETIMES when it's everyone against me, I have to look at the common denominator, meaning ME. And making the appropriate adjustments to make things right/change my attitude.

You can only change YOU!