[SueBee RN-BSN]

Originally Posted by beautifulb

I was just reading the reminiscing thread and one of the posts was stating something about how the nurses had to stand up when a DR. walked into the nursing station.

Welll...Get this. We have a brand new nursing unit with a nursing station. The nurses station has a long desk with approximately 5 computers. 2 are for the secretarys, one is for the charge nurse.

Behind the desk there is a thin area that houses pt. charts, med. teaching sheets, fax machine, printer. Adjacant to that is our tiny little med room with both of our omnicells. Put this way, it's a good thing noone is too large.

Anyways, then there is a room adjacant to the nurses station. A nice beautiful room, lots of shelves, at least 7 computers, nice computer space. I think you get the picture. I though we were quite lucky to have such a great room for charting. But noooo, that room there is for the "doctors", so if we are found in that room by a Dr. then we need to leave and search for a computer elsewhere.

I feel that it is really quite demeaning to the nurses and aides that work on the floor to have basically nowhere to chart. It's a thorn in my side!

If you all let this treatment of nurses go on, well, you get what you deserve. We teach people how to treat us.

[aviator411]

Allow me to cheer you up.

My wife has been a neonatal R.N. for 30 years. From time to time the nursing staff experiences problems with people stealing food from their well-marked lunches in the refrigterator. On one occasion they learned that the thief was a "doctor". They "spiked" some chocolate pudding with Ex-lax and placed it in the refrigerator and when the offending "doctor" came on the unit they locked all all the toilets. The rest is history!

Speaking of "doctors" Webster defines the term thusly:

"2 a : one skilled or specializing in healing arts; especially : a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian who is licensed to practice b : MEDICINE MAN"

By this most venerable definition, a nurse, is also a "doctor". Was Socrates an M.D?

[SueBee RN-BSN]

Originally Posted by aviator411

Allow me to cheer you up.

My wife has been a neonatal R.N. for 30 years. From time to time the nursing staff experiences problems with people stealing food from their well-marked lunches in the refrigterator. On one occasion they learned that the thief was a "doctor". They "spiked" some chocolate pudding with Ex-lax and placed it in the refrigerator and when the offending "doctor" came on the unit they locked all all the toilets. The rest is history!

Speaking of "doctors" Webster defines the term thusly:

"2 a : one skilled or specializing in healing arts; especially : a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian who is licensed to practice b : MEDICINE MAN"

By this most venerable definition, a nurse, is also a "doctor". Was Socrates an M.D?

Most excellent!!!

[General E. Speaking, RN]

our docs have a nice dictation room that is rarely used. we basically use it for storage!

[nursesarah]

our docs have a room that is much smaller than the nurse's station. it's basically just used for their charting. the nurses station is much larger, however its used by nurses and all the other disciplines. and some of the med students havent quite figured out that they have their own room to chart in usually its decent to chart there.

[lee22]

At my old job they removed the charting table because pts families would see us sitting there charting, reconcilliating MARS etc and complain to the nurse manager about how lazy we were "just sitting there" so we got to do that part of our job standing up. Thank god I left. Now I work at an institution that employs doctors that find it appropriate to yell and berate nurses on a regular basis. One in particular even threw a phone at a nurse in ICU- he's still working there. They also frequently refuse to return pages when they are on call @ hs (even when your pt has a SBP of 240)

[Dewgrl]

We are getting a new unit (ICU) and the first complaint was that the proposed nurses station was to small, and that we couldn't see the pt's. Mngmnt's response? You should be in the pt's room's, not at the station.

I work nights. In the dark, sleeping pt's room, you want me to sit. And who is watching the one ot two other pt's for, since if the other nurse has three, and I have three, and we are both in one pt's room, that leaves two pt's on their own....

[tryingtomakeit]

For all the complaints that I have about where I work, I have to honestly say that the MDs aren't among them. They, just like the rest of us, have their bad days, but for the most part they are a great group. It's nothing for a Dr. , after an especially hard day, to send up pizzas and drinks to thank the nursing staff.

Just last night I had one to call me at 2:00 in the morning to tell me that a pt in preterm labor we had transferred to another hospital had delivered, was doing well (both she and the baby) and that she had sent a personal message, via him to me, thanking me for all I had done for her.

Another night, another of our MDs was beside me drawing up and giving meds for his own pts because we were especially busy and short staffed to boot. He even did his own charting as to the care he had given - even helped me do some admission work on a pt!

[snowfreeze]

We also have a doctor room of computers, there are also computers in every patients room, that is where I do my real-time assessments. There is a computer on the med cart and we have 3 COWs(computer on wheels) on the unit also. I find I can sit on the shelf with the ac/heater by the window in each patients room while I chart so my feet are not screaming at the end of my shift. I have also started confirming meds at bedside in their wrappers so as to get used to what is coming...scanning the patient ID band and each med package seperately in the rooms. Real chairs are usually occupied by docs, secretaries, NP, pharmacy, case manager, social worker, and charge nurse. Actually it seems when I find a seat at the nursing station, someone calls for assist of something or another so I don't get to chart anyhow. If I chart in the patient rooms everyone leaves me alone.

[SueBee RN-BSN]

Originally Posted by lee22

At my old job they removed the charting table because pts families would see us sitting there charting, reconcilliating MARS etc and complain to the nurse manager about how lazy we were "just sitting there" so we got to do that part of our job standing up. Thank god I left. Now I work at an institution that employs doctors that find it appropriate to yell and berate nurses on a regular basis. One in particular even threw a phone at a nurse in ICU- he's still working there. They also frequently refuse to return pages when they are on call @ hs (even when your pt has a SBP of 240)

Why do you put up with this? I would really like to know.