[UtErRnEmt]

how do other hospitals treat board members and their friends/family when they come into the er as a pt? i don't have a problem doing one on one care with mi, cva or other critical pts but i do have a problem when a short staffed dept is made even shorter because a nurse is pulled to care for an arm injury.

[bill4745]

We don't provide 1:1 care for something minor but we do put them in a room quickly, usually through a different door so the other pts don't know where they are going.

[RN1989]

Every hospital I have ever worked at pulls that VIP crap for anybody that they think will give the hospital money, or help. I don't believe in it and think it is completely inappropriate.

On several occasions at one facility I was assigned VIPs because the charge nurse wanted the most experienced nurse there. I was quick to inform the charge that I don't do VIP care, they all get the best care that I can give and if I don't kiss enough butt for the pt or family's liking, that is too bad. I've had some VIPs request a different nurse since I wasn't a butt kisser and I've had other VIPs happy to have a conscientious nurse that didn't kiss their butts.

I see more and more facilities with special VIP programs. The news is full of the bull that UTSW in Dallas is doing for VIPs. Of course that facility is also misusing the funds of a lot of those VIPs.

I don't care for VIP treatment. If everyone refused to give extra special VIP treatment, I bet our healthcare system would have been overhauled a long time ago.

[Guitar_Heroine]

It's funny because we recently had a traveling gov't official wheeled through the ED straight up to the floor for something your average Joe could have spent 8 hours waiting to get a bed for. Same thing with a hospital board member awhile back. It frustrates me because these are the people making decisions for the rest of us, while they don't have a clue what real life is like!

[chadash]

One of my family members has received the VIP treatment recently. I ain't got one dime to rub against the other, though, so it can't be that.

[squeakykitty]

I have never understood why anyone should get special treatment, especially at someone elses expense.

[locolorenzo22]

I personally have the response of "all my patients are VIPs" whenever I'm told so and so is a doc's mom, or a board member, etc.....I give them good care, but I really never hear back on it, so I don't care....I'd rather give great care to the 98 yo on tube feedings and expected to pass vs. the 38 yo with slight abd pain.....

[ChristineN]

I recall back in the winter interviewing on a floor and being told the floor was getting ready to specalize----it was hoping to become a primarily VIP unit. Needless to say I turned that job down quickly.

[chadash]

I am all for VIP treatment: for all our patients!
I agree, it is really awful that status should come into play.

[crb613]

This happened recently at my hospital.....Charge calls...Dr so & so will be bringing his wife in, so have a room ready for her....Uh, no if her condition warrants it then she will come back if not she can go through triage & wait just like everyone else! She of course was brought back by the charge! Then Dr so & so tells our ER doc exactly what to order (tests, & drugs) she likes her meds! So now she will be admitted for her "migraine"
Charge calls the floor....I need a private room now...do what you have to, but make it happen! How disgusting is that? I was rolling my eyes, blowing, & letting it be known that we had some SICK people in the waiting room!