2/19/13

The one idiot that wrecks it for the rest


We might all have horror stories about that one employee or colleague who just shouldn't be in their job. Maybe it's the cranky old hag who's just sticking it out for another year before retirement. Maybe it's someone you just can't get along with no matter how hard you try. You dont have to get along with everyone, but in nursing you have to in the least get away with cooperation. That's of course harder when you're dealing with ice-cold personalities.

How do you deal with misfits in the workplace? Do you have a terrible co-worker? How many have in fact reported bad care observed in a co-worker? How do you confront bad nurses?

Post some thoughts here to help others. Let's just say the passive aggressive approach may be the one we all choose, but it may not be the most effective :P.
Posted by Beadie at 3:16 PM

5 comments:

  2. Time wounds all heels.

    Unless you have disciplinary responsibility and authority, the only thing you can do amounts to professionally shunning the offender, and making sure they don't have anything to do with the patients you're responsible for. I'll pass on concerns to the charge nurse for routing up the food chain, but usually it was three monkeys named HearNoEvil, SeeNoEvil, and SpeakNoEvil that hired and permit the continued employment of such walking disasters in the first place, so in my experience, they seldom show the slightest interest in doing anything proactive about showing them either their failings, or the door. And in fact management tends to view those raising legitimate concerns as troublemakers and boat-rockers, and would always rather shoot the messenger instead of fixing the problem.

    Thus poor employees are almost always a symptom of poor supervisors, and a sign of poor management.

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  3. That is a good question! I wish I knew how to handle the situation.

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  4. Not only are we failing to report poor behaviour, we're also failing to report nurse negligence and other poor workplace practices. It's very hard, but we need to stand up and be heard.

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