A nurse made her colleagues’ lives hell for years. Did her bosses do enough?
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A nurse made her colleagues’ lives hell for years. Did her bosses do enough?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/nurse-made-colleagues-lives-hell-30669828
Posted by ConorGogarty1
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Bullying is a big in nursing and mangers don’t do anything but turn a blind eye to it. Or they just move them to different departments.
Wow what a toxic person. She was bullying everyone around her for years and was getting away with it. I am thinking about the poor patients who were getting treatment there. It’s highly likely that they were being bullied too.
How the hell was she runner up for mental health nurse of the year? Zapping peoples brains and working in an ETC clinic being a massive bitch to everyone is a surprising choice for mental nurse of the year. Mental health nurses do all manner of one to one work. I’ve worked in an ECT suite and it’s more of a physical wheel them in make sure they don’t bite their tongue off and see ya kind of affair.
I suspect she has ‘friends’ in the management of the hospital. The amount of things over so many years and the nomination for nurse of the year.
But But..I was told all NHS Nurses were angels and latterday Florence Nightingales!
She’s being allowed to work from home. How can a nurse work from home??
Those teeth….. That haircut……. Karen the
Asshole nurse
This will absolutely be downvoted to the bottom but:
I try to live my life in a way where I don’t get involved in internal disciplinary procedures at work, but if I did, I don’t think it would be fair for it to be the subject of a full news article and my face in the national press *before* I’ve been given the final decision/punishment.
This is in no way at all meant to diminish the upset that people have felt btw. If she’s done this stuff she should be reprimanded appropriately. But splashing her in the media like this *before* that’s done is just going to undermine that. Do what you like afterwards.
This happens when specialist/senior nurses have a ton of money poured into their training and with the staffing issues in the NHS they become untouchable. (See also Consultants). Managers will not do anything as it’s usually impossible to get rid of them and also they can’t afford to replace them so life becomes hell for anyone that works with them.
Whenever I’ve worked with a woman who insults another woman’s looks/style by calling them a prostitute/slag they always have a certain look about them. Same with men who like to call other men gay/girly they always look the same. I’d hate to be that insecure of a person I have to attack another’s looks to make myself look and feel better.
Nursing is full of toxic bullies.
Either salt of the Earth or high school bully bitchy drama queen types.
Talk about the scales falling off when I eventually worked for our beloved NHS. In every way.
The NHS is an incredibly toxic environment, unfortunately.
I’m always cautious of these “award winning” nurses who go above and beyond. Dig deep and you find naracism and hate for colleagues as they feel they are better than the rest.
My experience of working in the public sector is that it is dog eat dog and once some people make it to manager level feel then their only job is to look after number one. Once you finally get out of the trenches you just never want to go back and you cant have anyone else challenging what you do or what happens in your department and under your watch.
Who’d want/let to let some newbie wannabe shine a light on the realities of what is really going on? I’m not saying its right but human nature is human nature.
If this incidence happened here in the US either that bullying nurse would have been murdered or KILLED by one of her colleagues OR she would have been FIRED asap.
I’m an NHS nurse and the bullying is rife. I work in senior management (Matron), and I’m very protective of my staff and junior staff in general. I hate seeing these old school Matrons making life miserable for people. I’ve reported bullying behaviour countless times but nothing ever comes of it. At my place there’s a clique of senior matrons that are protected by the chief Nurse as they’re all friends. I just keep submitting those Datix reports in the hope that someone somewhere takes note of them.
I was a 20yo admin apprentice in a GP surgery earning £5 an hour and the head nurse would tell me not to eat biscuits because I’d get diabetes, or comment on my weight in a vast number of other ways. But y’know, she’s a nurse, so it’s okay for her to make those unsolicited comments about her colleagues’ bodies.
In my experience nursing is rife with it. Ironically, many have low emotional intelligence, low self-esteem, in relatively shitty (pun not intended) jobs, but who have some power of people. Recipe for disaster.
Never date a nurse who is a single mum and in their 30s. I dated a few and boy oh boy are they built different. They lack empathy, highly manipulative and self centred to the point that I wondered if they were ‘changed’ during their careers by the system that left them lacking in the emotional department.
Bullying is rife in the NHS , sadly, and particularly endemic in psychiatry.
The greatest workplace bully I’ve ever had the misfortune of working with now… runs a firm delivering training to companies on how to combat workplace bullying.
I have screenshots of WhatsApp and Teams messages she sent me which still make my skin crawl. I’ll use them whenever it seems most appropriate.
Revolting woman.
Bully on our ward, has been promoted twice.
What a joke
Those signs in hospital should read ‘abuse of staff will not be tolerated and should only be performed by authorised personnel’
“The hearing was told that no concerns had previously been raised over the experienced nurse’s capability but she was forced to take a course on extremely basic tasks such as how to copy and paste on a computer. The nurse felt she was put on the process because of her complaint against Ms Hannigan. The panel found that Ms Hannigan violated the nurse’s dignity by “inappropriately” starting the capability process.”
What’s stopping anyone from just giving it back to her? Common decency should only extend to those who treat others nicely. Don’t become a bully towards nice people, only people like her who has no shame in being a bitch… with a face like hers, you’d have a lot of material to work with.
another case of the institutions of the UK failing to do their job and stand up to the issues they are happy to engage in for PR. this is an on going issue in the UK and will take a very long time to correct.