title: Age discrimination by fellow nurses is forcing me to leave.
abstract: I would like to share my upsetting experience of working in an acute hospital. I am an older, experienced nurse with a wide range of knowledge within different specialties. Due to a ward closure, I was transferred to another hospital to take charge of an acute receiving unit with a workforce of young, newly qualified nurses. Since then, I have been told to my face that I am too 'old' for the job and need to retire. Nurses seem to be sneering: 'Look at her, she is just an elderly nurse who is shockingly still working.'
mesh_terms: D063506:Ageism / Q000523:psychology*; D058445:Bullying; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D006113:United Kingdom