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i needa response to this discusion Nurse bullying started for me in nursing school. I was not necessarily caught off guard from it because I had been a CNA for five years before entering nursing school, but I sure learned how intense it could become. Students would make fun of students who did not catch on quickly or got a bad grade on a test in school. I remember one day in clinicals, a fellow student overheard me answering a question wrong about why my patients lactic acid was elevated. As we walked out, she told everyone how I would fail or never be a real nurse in the hospital. I pretended I did not hear it, and it really made me work harder. Another student actually went to the teacher and told her how much she had been putting other students down, and the bully was put on academic probation. As I became more assertive in my role as a nurse, I started to stick up for nurses who were getting bullied because they were new or new to trauma nursing. Gossiping is one thing, but it surprises me how much older nurses ridicule new nurses. They seem to forget they were new once too. If they are doing something wrong or need to change something, step up and guide them, not ridicule them. Common signs of bullying in nursing are extreme micromanaging, insults, verbal criticism, name-calling, withholding information, unfair assignments, and direct threats (Edmonson, 2019). I can think of an example that I have seen over the years for each one of the signs. Some of this bullying can lead to harm to the patient. A veteran nurse I worked with would give you report, and when you asked questions about things, she would make you feel dumb and tell you to look it up. I hated getting report from her and soon found out that many new nurses did. After bringing it to the manager’s attention, she stopped doing it and really did turn into a nurse I ended up loving. Nursing work in itself is enough stress for anyone to experience, but having to worry about older nurses “eating their young” is a common stress in the workplace (Edmonson, 2019).. If you are new, you have to worry about it, and if you have a heart, you worry about the new nurses coming in because you remember how you felt. It is important to be that person they can lean on and turn to. I got through being the new nurse because I had kind nurses that reached out to me and supported me. I was young, so I would bring my home stress into work and my work stress back home. They guided me on managing being professional at work and myself at home. That is something nursing school does not prepare you for. I think my best strategies to manage stress was opening up to these mentors about my problems, and now 80% of my close friends are nurses that I have worked with over the last nine years. Nursing can be great, but you have to stand up to the bullies because it is ultimately about the patient, not their issues. Edmonson, C. (2019). Our Own Worst Enemies. Nursing Administration Quarterly. 43(3). 274-279. doi: