Ok so I have been a nurse for two months now....I called a doc at 6am to get admission orders on a patient who came up from the er with no orders - of course. I waited til 6 because I knew he would be mad if i called at 4am

So he started spitting off orders but this doc is foreign so i had a very hard time understanding him and it sounded as if he was in his car or something because there was a lot of background noise. So i kept asking him to repeat things and he was getting irritated. I kept apologizing for not understanding but at one point he was like - this is the renal floor right? And I said yes sir, but I cant understand you and I dont want to write a wrong order. Eventually he just skipped two orders I just couldnt get right and got off the phone. So I went to my charge nurse and she said that I had done right - because Im sorry but Im not writing an order I dont specifically hear the doc say and say is correct when i read it back. She said maybe I should have handed to phone to her - but whatever.
Anyways - how would you all have handled this and/or has something similar happended to you? I kept beating myself up about it but know im like you know the patient is still alive - it wasnt an emergency - and one of his partners came in and changed his whole set of orders four hours later anyways - so Im trying to let it go.
thanks!
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