How To Deal With A Hostile Work Environment

How to deal with a hostile work environment? This is a touchy subject in the medical world. Nurses are often subjected to harsh working environments of forced overtime and heavy patient ratios. More experienced nurses often "eat their young" in the hospital arena.One way to improve this is to further your education and move out of those areas of practice into a realm that offers more autonomy like becoming a Nurse Practitioner. This is the track that I took to improve my nursing career almost 6 years ago. For the most part, I have enjoyed my job taking care of patients and their families and watching the children grow up in our practice. The only thing that I have found to be aggravating is the rather massive amount of paperwork involved with doing my job.Until now....................As we've gotten bigger over the last few years, we added another provider who is the complete polar opposite of my personality. At first, when I found this person a little remote, I attributed it to lack of experience and trying to fit into their new role in the practice. I let it slide and tried to make small talk. Occasionally, I thought that things were warming up. Then, I started hearing comments that my patients didn't like their attitude, that they weren't being listened to, and that they felt that the provider was "mad at them" for some reason unknown to them. During their visits with me, complaints were taking up a lot of our visit to which I explained that if they had an issue, they shou...
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