When The Nurse Is A Bully Analysis

The Article “When the Nurse Is a Bully” by Theresa Brown, R.N., shows that a lot of aggressiveness happens in the medical field. Especially, how the experienced nurses treat and act towards the student/new nurses. In the article, Brown’s co-worker had said “It’s that whole ‘Nurses eat their young’ thing.” Perhaps that phrase Brown’s co-worker had said means more than just the senior nurses treating the new nurses so poorly. Could this possibly be the experienced nurse’s strategy to make the upcoming nurses have a thicker skin. The nurses in general that are bullying their peers seem to use disconfirming communication, because the messages that they are expressing is showing little to no respect or caring towards their co-workers.
Brown had stated, “I’ve heard similar stories coast to coast, and I’ve experienced hostile treatment myself. In my first nursing job, some of the more senior nurses on the floor lied about work I had or hadn’t done, refused to help me at
It is stated in the article, “I have seen a petty meanness in how some nurses interact with one another, and with other hospital staff members.” and “The technical term for such behavior is “horizontal violence.” We all know that nurse. It’s the one who picks a fight with an I.C.U. nurse in front of a patient who, frightened and suddenly struggling to breathe, is on his way to intensive care. It’s the nurse who insists on calling repeatedly to ask why you haven’t done something — given a drug, started a transfusion — a task that, for a number of valid reasons, you haven’t been able to complete. It’s the nurse who boasts about giving a hard time to the interns — the doctors in training — and makes clear how enjoyable it was to pick on them.” Could the act of one nurse being this way cause escalatory conflict spiral; and others see so they too think it is okay to act hostile to get the job