GOT A NURSE BULLY PROBLEM? 3 TIPS FOR NEW NURSES

New nurses fear two things when they start their first job: Making a mistake and that the other nurses will eat them alive! Really. I’ve talked with many student and graduate nurses over the years and get asked the same question: “What do I do if the nurses are mean?

Unfortunately, they have every right to be worried.  

TIPS FOR STUDENT NURSES: RESPONDING TO THE DREAM BUSTERS

I had always dreaming of becoming a nurse and can remember the first time I sat in the auditorium with my fellow classmates and listened to the Dean of the school give her address. I was beaming inside and out! I knew the next few years would be difficult but I was so excited about becoming a nurse that it didn’t matter.

And then I got the first of many negative comments by the dream busters – the nurses who for whatever reason were hell bent on talking my classmates and me out of becoming a nurse.