Even Bullies Don’t want to Work with Another Bully

There are several new healthcare facilities opening up in my area. I think new hospitals are a thing of beauty and really enjoy seeing the new designs and innovations that are made. It makes me want to go and improve things where I am.
However, this particular place is still doing all their charting on paper and I thought it would be a great opportunity to at least practice my interviewing for my goals a nurse informacists. I am still trying to bridge the gap between IT and nursing where I am at, but my the possibilities appear limited and I am keeping my options open. Loyalty is so very important to me, but I know that I can have the potential to effect more lives in a different role.
Anyways, this particular facility was having open tours, on-site interviews, refreshments, giving away a free iPad and a big to-do. In a small town I was anticipating to see at least a few people I knew. However, I didn’t expect to see the ENTIRE SHIFT of BULLYING NURSES that I was “kicked out” from nearly a year ago.
It’s interesting but just provides the confirmation that they are apparently miserable in the current positions and were really doing their best to make everyone around them miserable as well. I wonder if they all planned on coming together or were just as surprised when they showed up and saw each other there?
At any rate, I do not plan on leaving where I am at to do the very same thing, and likely with significantly higher acuity patients and from what I have heard a potential for high turnover in staff. However, the facility was beautiful, the equipment was new, and they appeared to have all they needed. They had their very own pharmacy which would actually answer the phones and their med and supply rooms where in the center island with glass so that there was never a mystery if a staff member may be hiding inside. Or in my past fears, that staff member might assault me behind the closed doors.
I really do not want to leave the hospital where I am, but I do want the opportunity for growth. I know I have a lot more to offer this world than what I am currently doing, and as noble as I know it is, and as important as I know it is, I want to do more.
Whatever comes of the tour, resume, and chats I had with various administrative members, it was good practice and has allowed me to once again reflect upon how glad I am to no longer be working that shift with those people. I am so much happier and appreciate now.

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