10 Ways to Piss Off Your Staff

Dear Nurse Manager,

If one or two of these sound remotely close to the heart, you can change it!  If three to five of these are an issue, you will need help to change.  If there is more than five that describe your leadership?  …please resign.  You are the cause of a hostile work environment.

With kind regards,
the Muse, RN

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1. Know nothing of the goals and dreams of each staff nurse and CNA under your leadership.
2. Laugh and giggle only with the Bitch Nurses.
3. Never work a Holiday shift at the bedside with your Team.
4. Know nothing about Nurse Management until after you take the job.
5. Kiss-ass up the chain, but not down.
6. Stand for the Company, but not for your Staff – even when the Staff are right and you just don’t know it. (See Rule #4)
7. Be unable to inspire others to greatness because you have no idea what that is?! …having never stepped foot on the path yourself.
8. Be absent more than present.
9. Never give a straight answer – showing everyone that you have no real power or authority to govern.
10. Make bonus money off the back of your understaffed, stressed-out unit.