Old post reposted: Disruptive behavior at work
This issue (a post I wrote 2 years ago) is still salient and needs to be revisited often.
I wonder how many excellent nurses get fed up with childish, hateful behavior among their associates and leave this profession. It’s probably a large number and a terrible loss to our ranks. For a caring profession, we nurses can be unbelievably and randomly cruel to our associates, and it needs to stop. Zero tolerance for lateral violence!
I moved on for such reasons – I could take care of myself but, honestly, it got tedious & took too much energy – been Per Diem for over a year and my Teaching career is taking off – one of the greatest things about Nursing is you don’t have just two choices (stay or leave the profession) – there’s a third: try something or somewhere different in Nursing. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life – now I teach a few places and I work here & there on a bunch of very different units – it keeps things fresh. It’s easier to deal with nonsense with its just for a day or two. Let my wife carry the benefits for a while – life is good.