This Nurse I Work With

[TrudyRN]

She really does her own thing. She practically writes her own orders. The docs are not really aware of things she does because she never charts them but she tells about them in report and during count. She gets upset when other nurses follow the more conventional route of actually conacting docs when we want something or need to report problems, tells us we're uptight and sissies. Sometimes I think she's right but I still do it the conventional way. Part of me wants her to get caught and part of me says "Mind your own Business." She has never harmed anyone, to my knowledge.:madface::angryfire:nono::uhoh21:

[RosalindRN]

:lol2:He He! Its funny that someone would bring up this topic. There are nurses on the unit I work on that do the same thing. If a doc is on that they know and it's 2 am, they wont call him for something small (say throat spray) they just write an order for it by themselves. Most of them are older nurses who have worked on the floor for YEARS and they know the doctors really well. Me, I'll just call them at 2am, thank you very much;)

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

You were pretty vague about what she's doing, and why you think it's unsafe. If the docs haven't been upset, and no patient has been harmed, I say MYOB.

[banditrn]

She really does her own thing. She practically writes her own orders. The docs are not really aware of things she does because she never charts them but she tells about them in report and during count. She gets upset when other nurses follow the more conventional route of actually conacting docs when we want something or need to report problems, tells us we're uptight and sissies. Sometimes I think she's right but I still do it the conventional way. Part of me wants her to get caught and part of me says "Mind your own Business." She has never harmed anyone, to my knowledge.:madface::angryfire:nono::uhoh21:

A nursing license gives us the right to do certain things - but not others! Sounds like this nurse is crossing the line.

I'm a nurse because I wanted to be a nurse - if I had wanted to be a doctor, I'd have gone to medical school!!

At the last place I worked - a LTC facility - a resident wanted a 'pill' one night. He didn't know what it was called, but he described it to me. He said one of our day nurses had been giving it to him. I went thru all his PRN's, and nothing looked like what he described.

On a hunch, I went thru all our OTC bottles, and found what I think he was referring to - a little red pill - it was OTC benedryl!

I talked to the day nurse about it - she told me she felt that using that sort of thing was a 'nursing judgement'. I reminded her that this sort of thing did NOT fall under the Nurse Practice Act - and had a nice talk with the DON about it. I'm sure she talked with her, and we had an 'inservice' at a nurses meeting about the fact that you MUST have an order before giving a patient any meds.

[RNforhire07]

She really does her own thing. She practically writes her own orders. The docs are not really aware of things she does because she never charts them but she tells about them in report and during count. She gets upset when other nurses follow the more conventional route of actually conacting docs when we want something or need to report problems, tells us we're uptight and sissies. Sometimes I think she's right but I still do it the conventional way. Part of me wants her to get caught and part of me says "Mind your own Business." She has never harmed anyone, to my knowledge.:madface::angryfire:nono::uhoh21:

She's practicing medicine without a license. Sounds like she needs reported to the BON!