Dear Editor,
I am writing this letter with a heavy heart because of what I have witnessed.
I am a retired nurse and I was hospitalized recently.
I had a fairly well experience but I saw a trend that I didn’t like.
I noticed a few new nurses on the ward and let me tell you these nurses are so polite and attentive.
On the other side, I have witnessed them being bullied by the nurses they should be learning from, we call them senior nurses in our practice.
I call it bullying because that’s exactly what it is. I saw the new nurses being talked down to, talked about when they leave for lunch and I think this is unacceptable as nurses.
I have witnessed many mistreatment that’s too numerous to mention because am trying to keep this letter short but am very disturbed by it.
I remember one night I over heard 2 senior nurses discussing a junior nurse and calling her slow, which was so unprofessional to be discussing a nurse at the nurses station.
The more experience nurses should be taking these younger nurses under their wings and not trying to show off on them.
All of us were once new nurses, no one knows everything and I can see the frustration these junior nurses are going through.
I would also like to know if the ward sisters and other nursing managers are aware of these behaviors.
I think this needs to be addressed because we cannot afford to be losing more nurses over ignorance, a great number of nurses are migrating and it seems like they want to run off the new nurses also.
This behavior needs to be stop because I am not the only patient that noticed this behavior, it’s not a good look. Something needs to be done.
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I have a nurse friend that just recently moved to Canada. She packed her whole family and moved out of Antigua. She already got her 12 years old son in school and will be starting her job on Monday 4th Sept.
Happy for her please stay safe .here They don’t Appreciate their own sooo sad 😢
There are 3 main reasons nurses are leaving Antigua:
1.Money
2. Work envirnoment
3. Senior nurses/management
We obviously can never compete with the larger nations when it comes to money given for salaries (not saying they do not desire an increase) but the other two are very fixiable. Stop letting this no manners nurses go into supervising postions they are making your staff want to migrate more and more.
I wonder how you were during your tenure.
You’re missing the point of the writer..
Wait, do you understand reading comprehension?
Go read a book!!
That is one place nobody could ever pay me enough too work as a nurse myself. I would rather give up my career and find something else to do
The writer of this article could not have not have said it better. some of them are so on professional very hagish and not caring at all. It’s scary and must stop now. Thanks so so much for the good and caring ones we have.
Junior Nurses,if you are feeling under appreciated and under paid.Get a Visa and come North.You would be trained properly and be paid a respectable salary.There are Hospitals in my State.They would take you in a heart beat today.
Some of the nurses are very nice I met a young nurse on the medical side her name is Ms February she’s phenomenal , but some have no respect for visitors and patients, especially NURSE GROVE she’s like pig in mud have nothing about her. I personally complained to one of her superior about her behavior . My aunt visited from overseas and had on encounter with her bad attitude but because time wasn’t on hand she didn’t get the chance to report her to the Ministry of Health.
It’s a very sad situation at SLBMC.
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