When the Nurse Is a Bully - By Theresa Brown, R.N. - NYTimes.com

By THERESA BROWN, R.N.

It was the end of my shift, and I listened as one of my co-workers was being hassled over the phone for the second time that day. The computer wouldn’t release a patient record, and a nurse in another department was blaming her.

“Why are nurses so mean to each other?” I blurted out.

“Well yeah,” my co-worker said, “It’s that whole ‘Nurses eat their young’ thing.”

Nurses eat their young. The expression is standard lore among nurses, and it means bullying, harassment, whatever you want to call it. It’s that harsh, sometimes abusive treatment of new nurses that is entrenched on some hospital floors and schools of nursing. It’s the dirty little secret of nursing, and it needs to be publicly acknowledged, and just as publicly discussed, because it’s keeping us down.

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6 Tips to Survive Your First Year as a Hospital RN - Nursing Link

The first year on the job is often the toughest for new nursing graduates, especially those who work in hospitals. In fact, new nurse graduates account for more than half of the turnover rate in some hospitals, according to a study published in 2007 by Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing researchers.

“There really are multiple reasons for [the first-year exodus],” says Patricia Benner, RN, PhD, professor at the University of California, San Francisco and a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. “One is that nursing practice is incredibly complex. Over the past 60 years, the transfer of responsibility to nursing from medicine has been incredible. I think society doesn’t typically recognize that.”

Because the sickest patients are in the hospital, hospital RNs need good clinical judgment and the ability to recognize when a patient needs immediate intervention — challenges that are especially pronounced in a nurse’s first year of employment.

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10 Ways to Rekindle Your Nursing Passion, Nursetogether.com

Have the fires of your nursing passion fizzled out? Has your work become a job –someplace you exchange a certain set of skills for a paycheck?

What happened to your inner caregiver (maybe even your outer one)?

 

Did the changes do it in – you know, computerized charting, the pyxis, whatever else is new this week?

 

Do you feel alone at the bedside doing things administration can’t understand or imagine? Are you stretched thinner and thinner but doing more?

 

Or was it the personal cost – the emotional investment, the endless giving – that made you pull back?

 

You may have a hard time remembering the nurse you started out to be, but it’s not too late. You can get your nursing passion back.

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Integrating New Nursing Grads, Nursetogether.com

Do you remember what it was like to be a new nursing graduate?  One day you were a student, and ‘poof,’ one day you were a nurse.  Expectations ran high and responsibilities ran even higher.  The cushion of ‘just being a student’ and having your instructor ultimately be responsible is gone in an instant.  Do you remember the anxiety, fear and unsure feelings of those first few months?

When you are well into your own career and overloaded with your own patients, it is easy to forget what it was like in the beginning.  But wait, we need your active participation to help us integrate our new staff, now more than ever!   In a profession that is one of the most trusted and respected in the world, it is embarrassing that we have a phenomenon known as ‘nurses eating their young’ - the well known, but little talked about, epidemic of senior nurses making work life even more challenging for their young counterparts.  I am hopeful that the general public is unaware of this, as it would be rather embarrassing for us!

Why do you think this exists?  Do we feel that new grads must ‘pay their dues,' that because no one supported us, we don’t need to support them?  Is it our own insecurities?  Are we worried they have newer, fresher knowledge, and that they will want our jobs?

Whatever our reasons, whether conscious or not, many of us are hurting, rather than helping, our new nurses integrate into our institutions.  With the shortage of nurses so prevalent, wouldn’t it be in OUR best interest to help these ladies and gentlemen through their first, and possibly most challenging, year in the profession?

Dr. Judy Boychuk Duchscher, RN, PhD, has made her life’s work helping new nurses transition into the workplace.  Beyond this article, her compelling research and tools for integration can be found on www.nursingthefuture.ca.

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