By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN It seems counterintuitive that nurses would bully each other in a time of critical staffing shortages, but it is a huge problem today. The reasons some nurses bully others include the following: Intense anger about their personal and professional … [Read more...]
Bullying During a Time of Turbulence
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN It seems strange to write about bullying during COVID-19, but frontline leaders tell me that it is on the upswing. Nurses who are anxious and fearful sometimes default to bad behavior such as bullying. Renee Thompson, an expert on nurse bullying, defines the practice as having a target, repeatedly targeting individual nurses and … [Read more...]
When Bullying Becomes Normalized
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, FAAN A nurse manager recently talked with me about the bullying on a unit that she had recently assumed responsibility for. She was shocked at how the bullying behaviors seemed to be normalized and just accepted as part of the culture. The previous nurse manager had not dealt with it because it involved some of her "best" staff. She … [Read more...]
Promoting Civility
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. Mahatma Gandhi If you watch the nightly news and/or observe what goes on in our political environments today, you may sometimes wonder if we live in a civilized society. There is a rash of discourteous, disrespectful and rude behavior that is strangely tolerated, and even accepted as a new norm. Bullying others now seems to … [Read more...]
When the Nurse Leader is the Bully
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt An article in the January 2013 issue of Advance for Nurses describes a new anti-bullying movement started by Cole Edmonson, the Chief Nursing Officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse … [Read more...]
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