AUPN Leadership Minute Episode 2: How to Deal With a Difficult Faculty Member

DIFFICULT FACULTY MEMBER (DFM)

• Faculty member who makes other people unhappy in the workplace.

• Time drain for chair and others.
• Poor patient & learner evaluations reflect on entire group.
• Turnover of other employees—staff and faculty members.
  • Threat of turnover of other employees is the #1 criterion for chair intervention.

• Stress of potentially dealing with defensive, confrontational person.
• Stress of potentially dealing with DFM’s acts of retribution toward you and others.
• Potential loss of positive contributions of the DFM (grants, patient volume, etc.).