[sharann]

So after my co-worker and I had been working 12 hours, we are waiting for Dr Brilliant to get started with his 1730 case(It is NOW 1845). So he calls recovery room and asks for one of us to run back to the lounge and check the Laker game score for him!!! I tell my co-worker "This is out of the nurses scope and I am NOT going!" If the circulator wants to do this she can be my guest. I WILL do MANY favors and help them all I can, but I am not a handmaiden or this guys mommy. She told him no by the way and guess what? He survived(so did the patient )

[Hellllllo Nurse]

Lawd Almighty, that does take the cake.


So glad you refused to do it!

[nurseunderwater]

come on....doesn't his boom box have AM radio :

[Marie_LPN, RN]

You know Laker scores ALWAYS come before the pts.!!! Jeez, when will people learn LOL.


(No that really wasn't funny that Dr. Moron would even call and ask anyone to do that.)

[webbiedebbie]

Perhaps he was betting on the game and was hoping to add to his "income"!

[sharann]

Originally Posted by webbiedebbie

Perhaps he was betting on the game and was hoping to add to his "income"!

[carcha]

Yeah, had one ask me to phone his wife and check when the restaurant reservation was for again. Wont be asking me to do that again!

[stevierae]

Originally Posted by sharann

So after my co-worker and I had been working 12 hours, we are waiting for Dr Brilliant to get started with his 1730 case(It is NOW 1845). So he calls recovery room and asks for one of us to run back to the lounge and check the Laker game score for him!!! I tell my co-worker "This is out of the nurses scope and I am NOT going!" If the circulator wants to do this she can be my guest. I WILL do MANY favors and help them all I can, but I am not a handmaiden or this guys mommy. She told him no by the way and guess what? He survived(so did the patient )

Well, the guy did ASK, after all; it's not like he demanded. I have to say wherever I have worked, the nurses and the docs are all pretty casual and friendly with each other; if I wasn't busy and had the time and IF I FELT LIKE IT it wouldn't bother me to run back and check on a score or call someone's wife or anything else. Heck, we probably would have had the game on in my room in the first place on the radio, so it wouldn't have been an issue.

Gosh, I've asked residents and attendings to make phone calls for me when they happened into a room where I was scrubbed with one of their colleagues, and they did it, no problem. I guess I have been really, really lucky to always work where the nurses and surgeons were a team. We had to stick together against our mutual enemy, management, who has an entirely different agenda than we do.

[shodobe]

I have answered pagers, phone calls, made phone calls, called the floors for docs, ran down the hall to check, yes Laker scores, called docs homes to give messages to the wife, everything. NO PROBLEM! I am paid no matter what I am really doing and I have always been asked, not directed, to make a call. All of the surgeons I work with are my friends and they would do the same for me if asked. I only will answer pagers when I get a free moment and they all know this. I will only bother them with important pages and usually know what they want to know now. I don't see it as an issue, at least to me. Everyone has their priorities. Mike

[suzanne4]

I definitely have to side with Steph and Mike on this one. The patient is always going to be the prioity, like finishing a sponge count before changing the CD. If I am not busy right at that moment, then why not?
All of us normally work together as a team, at leat any of the ORs that I have been involved with.