Wow, what an exciting week for nurses! All the ado about The View and Miss Colorado has taken up lots of blogger time, so we won’t have as many contributions from the weekly Aspiring Nurse Bloggers group this week. Here’s what we have so far: Lorie Brown offers a time she got in trouble at work in Dirty Little Secrets. I’ve had similar experiences, I’m not sure how many. Some people go into psych work because they like it, others because they see it as a place you can be lazy and bully patients. Others enter for good reasons but burn out and go down the bad path. When you call people out for not doing their job, sometimes they retaliate. One popular tactic is to offer the boss a distorted or frankly fictional complaint. I don’t encounter this problem very often. Why? I communicate clearly. I sell this sort of person the notion (the truth) that they don’t want war with me: too dangerous, too unpleasant, too expensive, too risky. Nothing abusive or criminal, mind you: that leaves lots of other great possibilities. I’m such a helpful guy, I go above and beyond so often and solve so many problems others’ [...]![]()
