Okay, maybe not all docs, but I have a HUGE problem with the ones that insist on wearing so much cologne that we can still smell it all over the unit 20 minutes after they have left the floor! I have asthma and more than once I have had to find another nurse to sit with my ICU pt so I could get away from the smell left behind in the room after the doc has been in. I once refused to let a resident in the pt room because he smelled so strongly...and the pt was in status asthmaticus!!! Do they teach them anything in med school? I have c/o to all the right people, I have confronted the docs one on one (sometimes I was nice, sometimes I wasn't) and for the love of all things fresh and clean it's written in the dang policy NO FRAGRANCES! We cover it every year in our competancies!!
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Thanks for letting me vent! I have just about had it up to hear and I don't know what else to do. I have to admit, usually it's the residents, and once you say something to them, they usually cut way back. The repeat offenders are the one's I'm not nice to. But every month it's a whole new batch of bodies, and every month they smell worse and worse. I am tired of carrying my inhaler around just incase the docs need to come in my pt room.
