Not scared of the doctors

[noyesno]

As a new grad, calling the doctors/talking to the doctors doesn't scare me or make me nervous. I'm not even good at talking to them but it doesn't bother me because I'm new and learning and if they don't understand this, poo on them.

Part of me thinks this is a good thing but another part of me worries that I'm missing something. Like, do they have some sort of power over my employment that I missing? Should I start kissing ass? At this point, I'm more afraid of HR than I am of the MD's. Is something wrong with me?

I'm thinking, "Wow, nursing school really hyped up the whole calling the doctor thing to the point that I'm worried that something's wrong with me for not being afraid."

I should add, I'm not rude or disrespectful to the MD's. I am very nice and respectful but not overly/kiss assingly so. Please don't think I'm entitled or rude to the MD's by any means, I'm just not scared or nervous by them.

Opinions? Main questions bolded above.

[Forever Sunshine, ASN, RN]

I am probably going to get flamed for this, but I really don't get the big deal over this SBAR business. They have it to the right of our order sheets, and you're supposed to have it all filled out. Just to amuse management, I may occasionally fill out the "A" and the "R," but honest to Pete, if I am paging a doc, I know why I am paging and what I think the patient needs. This just seems like the latest "hot idea" like PIE charting, SOAP notes, SOAPIER notes...good grief, I can't even remember all the stuff that has come and gone.

They wanted us to do SOAP notes. I did it with one and I never went back. I felt my information was very disorganized in that format. I like my notes just the way they are. My nursing school drilled notes into our head, and I always get compliments on my nurses notes from other nurses. So I'm not changing just because some birdie flying by chirped "soap notes".

[Forever Sunshine, ASN, RN]

Interesting, because I find the younger ones are rather stricter and more difficult (maybe because they're not comfortable enough in their roles to allow some give and flexibility?). I recently got yelled at by a resident for not having my vitals charted by lunch time (I had an extra patient on my assignment that day and none of my patients were easy).

I've gotten over my fear of talking to doctors (I'm a shy person so talking to new people in general scares me, but I've gotten better over the years). It helped that, for the most part, the doctors we usually see on my floor are very nice. There's even one or two who sometimes hang out at the nurses station to joke around with whoever is there. There are a select few doctors who are rather notorious for being "scary" because they ask a ton of questions on the spot (everything from their vitals to their meds to what happened on the previous shift), but for those, I do my best to answer and refer back to the patient's chart if needed and that usually is satisfactory enough for the doc.

That is true. We have a doctor who is younger.. than the rest and he can be .. difficult.. if you want to use that term. Hes rarely in the facility, and when he is.. don't blink because he'll have flown away already. Phone calls with him make you feel like the tiniest little fruit fly on the wall, because he doesn't talk. "Hello. yep. ok. bye". Thats the extent of his conversation with you if you call him.