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Can't Sit With Us Lamere Lock

You may picture a bully as a muscular high school kid wearing a letterman jacket, who enjoys picking on the smaller kids or someone writing offensive comments to someone online. Bullies may also wear scrubs, carry stethoscopes, give medications, care for the sick, and call themselves nurses. Bullies may also be sick patients and family members of the sick patients. Bree, a new nurse at Shady Oaks Assisted Living Facility, soon learns that her new nursing job feels a lot like she stepped back into high school. Shady Oaks is full of gossiping, fights, cliques, medication errors, and unprofessionalism. Bree realizes that some nurses have a can't sit with us mentality, and Sadie and a few other nurses are exactly that way. Sadie, a more seasoned nurse, has been a nurse for over twenty years and enjoys whipping new nurses into shape, even if it means getting them fired. Lou, a new patient at Shady Oaks Assisted Living Facility is determined to get out of the nursing home and back to her husband, even if it means kicking, hitting, and spitting on nurses. Shady Oaks Assisted Living Facility is picturesque on the outside, but a disaster on the inside. From nurses fighting to the patients trying to escape, Shady Oaks is falling apart. Bree is trying to earn her seat at the nursing table, Sadie is trying to keep her seat at the nursing table or one day be at the head of it, and Lou just want to be at her own table. Can't Sit With Us is a story told through the eyes and minds of Bree, Sadie, and Lou. This is a story about how nurses devour their young.