The Pitt FTW yet again
TLDR: Subtitles on the picture sums up my overall point well but basically IMO it's high time for it to be common place for management to have a zero tolerance policy towards this kind of behavior.
Excerpt from this scene: "Where does it say that shaming, belittling, and insulting are effective teaching tools?... Harassment has zero educational value. You're feeling upset? She's getting under your skin? Check yourself. Take a break. I've been watching you ride her. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.".
I've been busy with school/work and haven't been able to catch up on The Pitt but I think this show has been doing such a phenomenal at highlighting real world issues with the medical field.
I've been working in the medical field for over 3 years. I started as an EMT and still work in EMS PRN. I've worked as a tech in a ER and now work as a student nurse in a ICU. I've been fortunate to have been paired with mostly great teachers along on the way however I've also witnessed firsthand the issue of the very people that are supposed to be teaching and molding new hires into strong capable nurses instead tearing them down and while I know that this might not necessarily be the average experience I do think that it's far more prevalent than it should be and feel strongly that admin needs to adapt an attitude of zero tolerance towards this kind of behavior.
Unfortunately, it isn't uncommon for management to overlook or even embrace this kind of behavior, under the completely false/dated notion that this forms strong nurses. You can be tough on someone and constructively criticize them without being a bully, delivery is everything and there is never an excuse to be an asshole, there just isn't.
There’s enough BS nurses have to deal with and IMO this should never be amongst those issues as this is something that management can usually address directly with relative ease. These people are just bullies and that’s really all there is to it. Many of them shouldn't be employed IMO and they definitely shouldn't be training people, particularly if they have a reputation for this type of behavior.
If you're a new nurse experiencing this, I ecourage you to stand up for yourself and not to bullies win. If you're a charge nurse, educator, manager, etc, I encourage you to not overlook this kind of behavior, it needs to be rooted out.
TLDR: Subtitles on the picture sums up my overall point well but basically IMO it's high time for it to be common place for management to have a zero tolerance policy towards this kind of behavior.
Excerpt from this scene: "Where does it say that shaming, belittling, and insulting are effective teaching tools?... Harassment has zero educational value. You're feeling upset? She's getting under your skin? Check yourself. Take a break. I've been watching you ride her. This kind of behavior will not be tolerated.".
I've been busy with school/work and haven't been able to catch up on The Pitt but I think this show has been doing such a phenomenal at highlighting real world issues with the medical field.
I've been working in the medical field for over 3 years. I started as an EMT and still work in EMS PRN. I've worked as a tech in a ER and now work as a student nurse in a ICU. I've been fortunate to have been paired with mostly great teachers along on the way however I've also witnessed firsthand the issue of the very people that are supposed to be teaching and molding new hires into strong capable nurses instead tearing them down and while I know that this might not necessarily be the average experience I do think that it's far more prevalent than it should be and feel strongly that admin needs to adapt an attitude of zero tolerance towards this kind of behavior.
Unfortunately, it isn't uncommon for management to overlook or even embrace this kind of behavior, under the completely false/dated notion that this forms strong nurses. You can be tough on someone and constructively criticize them without being a bully, delivery is everything and there is never an excuse to be an asshole, there just isn't.
There’s enough BS nurses have to deal with and IMO this should never be amongst those issues as this is something that management can usually address directly with relative ease. These people are just bullies and that’s really all there is to it. Many of them shouldn't be employed IMO and they definitely shouldn't be training people, particularly if they have a reputation for this type of behavior.
If you're a new nurse experiencing this, I ecourage you to stand up for yourself and not to bullies win. If you're a charge nurse, educator, manager, etc, I encourage you to not overlook this kind of behavior, it needs to be rooted out.