Nurse Bullying: Four Steps to Stop Nurse Bullying

If you’ve been a target of bullying, I don’t have to tell you how destructive it is. I’ve known nurses who have called off work, suffered from headaches, stomach aches, and even quit all because of nurse bullies. Seriously, we are hemorrhaging really great nurses to this problem and can no longer afford to just ignore it.

What if I told you that you could stop a bully in just 4 easy steps?

On this episode of Coffee & Conversations about nurse bullying, I’m going to share 4 simple steps to stop bullying behavior.
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Are there any tactics that you use? If so, please post in the comment section below. I’d love for you to share!

Until our NEXT conversation…

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[Angelito_Noreaga]

Bullies never stop. They just have to be gotten rid of and managers need to be ready and willing to part ways seasoned nurses, even if they worked together for decades.

Personally, I am primed for a leadership role. It is my promise that I will remove nurse bullies from my unit/hospital/healthcare system permanently, even if it's a long-time friend.

[kathy]

I appreciate your advice and it's nice to know the bullying is not just in my head. That being said, though, my experience has been more insidious with nursing staff talking behind my back. It's difficult to confront someone when you're not sure when it is happening. Is there a video where you discuss this type of bullying?

[taylorshotgun]

Excellent advice! Especially the "naming the behavior" step. This is great. Thanks so much.

[tanyaglenn]

Thank You. I feel prepared for my new journey and position.

[stafford]

I have been ostracised by my work group in the past because I “ratted” on them for dangerous handling and administration of strong narcotics. I reported to the clinical supervisor who promised not to identify me but identified me less than 5 minutes into her conversation with the manager. Suddenly the people telling me I have to report this to preserve patient safety turned away and ignored the torture my coworkers did to me. The manager decided to write me up because it would not be right to discipline the persons mishandling narcotics and not write up the person who reported it.???? I still have issues with wanting to ignore things that coud be reported because I don’t want to go through this again. What can I do?

[scottbump]

yes tried all four, three in house EEO ADR's to discuss eye rolling, confrontation behaviors, script?, didn't work likely due to the manager not enforcing it leaving just myself and another RN dealing with a Bully NP that's still there going on the 3rd complete cycle of staff except her and the Secretary, Not likely there the other Nurses would dare join in after bailing to support us confronting her hostile behavior. The Education Nurse was in tears, she "had no idea it was that bad" it was like we were throwing gasoline on a burning fire" the Script drove the NP to rage!

we were both were retaliated she got transferred and I received a proposed removal for coming forward. I cleared myself of the removal but aged two years dealing with that upside down Federal Accountability act to come up with a defense in a looming 7 days. a 250 page pile of their not numbered evidence from HR? oh yes and I documented, including time line, which clearly shows the repetitive patterns.
The government policies are a mockery as evidenced by the EEOC mediator announcing in the ADR "management don't have to follow policies" lesson learned? do not go EEOC go with a Civil Case if it comes down to objective record keeping/ Journal and heading to the next level if it's retaliation after whistle blowing just my thoughts..

[sarahpatel]

Are you able to mentor? Or do a class on how to implement assertive behavior

[roy-nkvq]

This is rampant in the veterinary industry, also

[mistywoods]

I am new here. I would like to know how to respond to medical personnel who intimidate and bully patients and their families, I am seeing a disturbing trend in this lately.

[tiredofit]

It’s a shame women hate on each other. The best nights I ever had it was all male nurses. Men sit and talk about sports and grilling. Women sit and talk about each other, thinking of ways to write one another up for nothing. Sad but true