I recently had someone I precepted as a brand new nurse come up to critical care where I precepted her again. When she was a new grad, she was originally with another nurse who talked a great game, but there were issues with his care and him/I had an issue when he was a new grad (he restrained an alert an oriented patient with a sheet without orders- he denied it happened later). He basically told her I was the worst and to watch out for me. She was paired with me to finish off orientation and we had a few words. Namely, I expect before you play on your phone your shit is done. We moved passed it and even became friends.

I moved to critical care and she followed about eight months later. I noticed early on she was giving me attitude like she did as a new grad- rolled her eyes, sighing. I ignored it. I broke when she openly argued her assignment in front of all the staff with me. Basically, we were working without aides. There was a patient who was very sick and needed bowel prep for a colonscopy the next day. Handing this patient off to another nurse when there were two of us to do the work would have been really unkind, but he was a great learning experience (multiple units of blood, platelets, labs, etc..).

I talked to her and she cried. A few days later she wanted to speak again, she blamed me for her response.

I posted here and people told me to hand her off, maybe our personalities were different. They were right. She did much better with another nurse. Happy to see her do well.