Is My Behaviour Affecting the Team?

Most of us choose to go into our professions because we care about our patients. The majority of us are not bullies at the start, and may not even consider ourselves bullies now, but the stresses at work can cause people to behave differently, and that behaviour becomes re-inforced until it becomes acceptable and part of the culture in the hospital, clinic or healthcare setting.

We often go home and mull over the patients that we’ve seen that day; the clinical problems, how we dealt with them, what we might have done differently. How often do we stop and think about how we behaved that day? Self-reflection is very important for both our clinical and non-clinical development.

Bullying can happen anywhere and anyone of us can be guilty. Think about your behaviour on a daily basis. It is so easy for our behaviour to change without us noticing.