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klee@sunbelt.net wrote:
 
 Hi! I just discovered this newsgroup and looks like there may be someone
 out there with some opinons as to my problem.
 
 I am a LAbor and Delivery nurse in a hospital with 6 labor beds. We have
 a small medical staff and 1 Nurse Midwife. Our hospital is very
 progressive. This is the problem. Our Nurse midwife is very demanding and
 is known to feel better than anyone else.  We were in a true ob emergency
 situation ( prolapsed cord on a 26 weeker). The nurse midwife screamed at
 me and told me in front of my peers and the patient that I was incompetent
 and to get out of the room. She has done this to me in the past and i just
 passed it off. I still was hurt and angry. But this time I just couldn't
 let it go. I went to my nurse manager and she said that the 3 of us needed
 to talk. We did. The midwife said that I had a real problem and if I
 wanted her respect than I could have it and she walked out of the room. My
 nurse manager looked at me and said she thought that things would be fine
 now.

 2 days later my nurse manager manager called me and said that she had a
 letter she needed me to sign. I went to the hospital to read it. It full
 of things about how I allow peaple to upset me and intimidate me, that I
 was not living up to the expectations that the hospital had set for their
 staff,that I did not handle emergency situations well according to my
 peers. I now have to watch 3 videos that have to do with  interpersonel
 relationships, emergency situations and stress-write a summary and turn it
 in to the VP of nursing.
 
 I have been a labor and delivery nurse for 14 years. I have never been
 told any thing like this in any of the other hospitals I have worked in.
 I have always been liked and I have always been told that I am an
 excellent nurse. I just can't seem to let this go. I feel that I am being
 asked to leave my job.
 Does anyone have any thoughts about this??
Robin

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