Nurses, Stop Eating Your Young:
Ten easy steps for eradicating the death of novice nurses

Do nurses really eat their young?
Nursing is a wonderful and rewarding profession comprise of nurturing, comforting and kindhearted people who sometimes find themselves in understaffed, stressful, demanding environments that have produced some experienced nurses that are unhelpful, unsupportive, critical, mean, predatory, impatient and even destructive towards novice nurses. The subject of nurses eating their young is an old issue that has brought concerns to recent graduates, staff nurses, nurse educators, nurse administrators for years, and still remains a problem in the nursing profession with little to no solution.

Why talk about solution to an old problem?
Because hurting nurses are desperately looking for a change, here are samples of some of their stories: “I work in a hosp that the unit is horrible with nurses stabbing each other. you get ill when you have to work this unit, and yet can't get off of it. always shorthanded and everyone trying to pass the buck. why can't nurses support each other. the work is hard enough without you having to see who is gonna stab you in your back. gossip is rampant, but i know thats life, but when you really hurt someone with the gossip, it needs to stop. Management does nothing, but look the other way. so what is the solution, if there is one? we became nurses to care for the patients, and yet the main thing seems to be forget the patients, stab your co worker. things need to get better in nursing. support you r co worker, help people out. look out for each other”.

I worked in several areas in the hospital but mostly E.R. There are things you learn quickly that are not taught in nursing school. The common phrases you learn in nursing are "nurses eat their young" and "only the strong will survive". I spoke to a nurse who use to work on a medical floor in a trauma hospital. She said she had to have her husband come in at 2:30am while she was on her night breaks because he co-workers would always put her into tears. She is one of the nicest people you would ever meet. Maybe that 's part of her problem...maybe she's too nice. You cannot appear too weak, otherwise, they will attack you”.

Nurses, Stop Eating Your Young is a 60-minute presentation powerful program that will be a tool in the hand of nurses to combat an old problem that have known to cause many casualties in the nursing profession. This program will help nurse managers who have been looking for ways to deal with this issue and bring teamwork on their unit, nursing leaders who have lost nurses from their facilities due to this problem despise the money and effort spent in recruiting and training of new nurses, experienced nurses who are tired of dealing with this problem and now ready to look at ways to eradicate it, and new entering nurses who have been asking for help in this area so they can concentrate on building their nursing career.

Purpose and Benefits:
This presentation is designed to:

• Strengthen nursing recruitment and retention efforts of nursing leaders
• Encourage new nurses entering the workforce
• Provide a tool for experienced nurses to make a difference in nursing
• Built cohesiveness and teamwork on nursing units
• Create awareness of the effect is this issue in the healthcare system
• Increase nursing satisfaction
• Contribute in creating a positive work environment

This program will draw from 10 key strategies for nurses to be able to implement to bring immediate result to what have come to known as horizontal hostility in nursing. Participants will leave the presentation feeling equip with practical steps that they can apply immediately to start turning their working environment around.
They will leave encouraged, recharge and ready to make a difference in nursing that will bring satisfactions and fulfillment in their career.

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