Comments on: Workplace Bullying Among Nurses

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:46:40 +0000

Wake up people! Workplace bullying is evident, tolerated & even rewarded EVERY DAY! Attrition rates are merely one means of calculating the losses. These days, CARE is being obliterated in the Healthcare system. It’s a shame! A zero tolerance policy should be implemented and enforced everywhere.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:07:32 +0000

I know that I’m teetering on the edge and thinking about walking away from my house to end it. I am completely demoralized.

By: look

look — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:40:19 +0000

i knew nobody like to be this situation as it not only affects on your health and wellbeings but also affects on your work performances and it is also well known to us that altered physical, mental and social health cannot give positive result whereas , as a nurses , weare expected to demonstrate an excillent health outcome for our patients with limited resources,

By: P.G.

P.G. — Sat, 26 May 2012 18:22:14 +0000

I had a client who was a young man with disabilities. He worked in a janitorial, non-nursing role. He loved his job and everyone he worked with. Unfortunately he was the victim of workplace bullying and was made to work obscene hours tirelessly. He did so with a smile because he truly loved the company.

Unfortunately this led to him neglecting warning signs about his own health and when he brought them to the attention of his shift supervisors he was told to go back to work.

Later he ended up passing out on the floor, being hospitalized, and later passing away. All this because bully supervisors took advantage of him.

We need to recognize not only when this is happening to ourselves, but to those around us who cannot intercede on their own behalf.

By: Blessy

Blessy — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:54:24 +0000

I personally do not think that there is any sort of bullying going on in hospitals.But what I have noticed is that the Novice nurse does not like to be told to do things.If u point out that there was a mistake,they don’t pay heed to it.Or they report to the incharge that seniors are Bullying them.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:19:30 +0000

what everyone has to remember there is better humans just different humans, and going into healthcare your ethics should always be caring for people. not who gets paid what, or who has say over another nurse. Maybe the nurses are like unhappy kids so they lash out

By: Barb H

Barb H — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:23:25 +0000

maybe a lot of this is brought on by the stresses of the job? it can’t be easy being a nurse, feeling over worked and under paid, with the pressures growing each day as patient care more and more gets turned over to their hands

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:36:18 +0000

As a male nurse, I am kind of in the minority you knw. The only place I have ever experienced this kind of bullying, and well, I am not even sure that I would call it bullying, maybe teasing, was when I was in school for my RN. How many male nurses do you know? Exactly, and there were some professors who actually made me feel that same way. Now that was kind of daunting. It was like I was some novelty that they continually had to point out and analyze. But when I finally got to the practicals and on the hospital floor, I never experienced anything like that. Nothing but support from all of my coworkers.

By: stace

stace — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:58:37 +0000

No matter where you work, there are going to be those in charge who get a rush and a thrill from having power over someone else. With nurses, maybe it is the RNs who get some kind of thrill with bossing around the ADNs and CNAs. Who knows! But those kind of people exist no matter what line of work you are in. The hardest thing is finding a way to manage and control that so that you don’t have to allow it to ruin a job that you may love. Hard to continue loving your workplace if there is someone there who is making working there so difficult.

By: Ben.H

Ben.H — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:06:10 +0000

Almost every profession has a little bit of bullying at the workplace.do the bosses in the corporate world count any lesser than bullies?I don’t think so!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:44:39 +0000

No matter what line of work you are in or how much more educated you may find yourself o be over anyone else that you work with that does not give you the right to be a workplace bully.
Our nurses are hard working individuals who chose that line of work because they love taking care of other people. They really don’t need this kind of abuse at work.

By: nurse shannon

nurse shannon — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:56:09 +0000

I have been a nurse for a lot longer than I have not been and I have never encountered anything like this. My senior or head nurses have never been anything but kind and helpful, being a mentor and also becoming friends. I am sorry to hear that there are nurses out there who do feel like they have been bullied, but I have never felt bullied on the job by my nurse co workers. Now the doctors on the floor can sometimes be pushy, but look, this is a stressful situation that most of us are working in and I think that al ot of that just goes with the territory.