Do we have to live in high school after we get our “grown up” jobs?

I know the last few blogs have been about my DH’s ex wife.  She has been blocked on my phone and his too (but he doesn’t know).  It has been so peaceful and the kids are texting through their own phones paid for by his ex (jokes on her).  I made up my mind, I will never be around her again because she is just a waste of my time.

I am a nurse practitioner of family medicine.  I work in a small frontier clinic in Arizona. I have nurses that work with me.  I also have an excellent medical assistant, but my  assistant and I butt heads with this nurse that is a know it all.  Nurse KIA (know it all) makes our lives miserable.  She demands tasks to be completed such as moving her office by my awesome assistant.  Kia had the audacity to question my competency at the clinic.  She did this in front of the patient.  She would not allow me to perform an ultrasound on a patient’s arm to check .

I was humiliated when she refused to tell me where the ultrasound machine but the higher ups trumped her and I was able to perform the procedure.  Ugh now the bad part, we have a new boss and she is smoozing him well.  She is playing the “no one listens to me card”.  Big UGH!. He is falling for it!  In fact, he said BOTH of us were in the right and we were BOTH advocating (in regards to the ultrasound situation); ME for the PATIENT and her for the clinic because she KNEW (assumed) that I did not know how to use the ultrasound machine.  I thought the PATIENT trumped the CLINIC, the patients should always be #1!!!!

Now she is trying to turn others against me which is kind of HIGH SCHOOL but funny thing about is that our co-workers have seen her malicious ways and have remained neutral in this environment.  This is how is should be.  Of course, our boss is feeding into her melodrama.  I asked myself again, “Is this high school again@!”