Will somebody PLEASE tell these doctors....

metalmom · Dec 17, 2006

12. Figure out what needs to be ordered for your 1 month post open heart patient (that I just met one hour ago) for his discharge that morning and not take it out on me in front of everyone in the nurses' station.

HeatherLPN · Dec 19, 2006

You know we have to verify admission orders with you, not your nurse. If you don't want to take the time, especially since our admission that YOU discharged late from the hospital is after your 11-11:30am window that we are supposed to call you in, then get out of healthcare. Calling me stupid and telling me how unacceptable it is to page you after hours is NOT benefitting your patient that would like a pain med. I'm just doing my job, so help me to help your pt. and do yours.

ShayRN · Dec 19, 2006

Don't know what number we are on, but here is mine:

DO NOT scream and curse at me when your patient is having a problem that you can't be bothered with on a Saturday nite at 9pm. You have one and only one warning. I will document what you say, word for word, in the progress notes AND inform the patient and family that their problem isn't worth your time, in those exact words, (that is what you said to me, after all.) After the way you treated me, do you really think I should make YOU look good? I have done this in the past and as much as you run up and down the halls screaming that you want me written up, there really isn't much the manager can do about something that is already charted. Let them TRY to take out my documentation on a legal document:lol2: No, they can't write me up for pissing you off;)

zudy · Dec 19, 2006

And don't scream and curse at me when I have to call you about your patient on a Sunday morning, and then end the rant with, "And don't call me because I am at church!" It makes me wonder what exactly you are worshipping!

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Dec 19, 2006

It makes me wonder what exactly you are worshipping!

I lost my tea over that one, LOL!

arizonanurse · Dec 20, 2006

1. Take a penmanship class.

2. When you write orders, please give the chart to me or the unit secretary. Do not put it back in the rack without flagging it.

3. Don't write stupid orders. I know to get the blood cultures before starting the antibiotics; you don't have to write it. And if you order orthostatic BPs, you don't need to ask me if I did the supine BP before or after the sitting and standing. I DID make it through nursing school, after all.

jennyfyre · Dec 20, 2006

Please don't demand blood culture results 4 hours after they were ordered. No amount of bullying will make them grow faster.

Please do not freak out when a kid goes bad and demand I call 911... doc, we ARE 911!!! Just call the code.

Please don't page consulting doctors and leave the floor.. they are not too keen to play phone tag with you!

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Dec 20, 2006

Please don't page consulting doctors and leave the floor.. they are not too keen to play phone tag with you!

Oh this annoys me to no end when one of our docs says "page Dr. So and So for me", and then when Dr. So and So calls back, the doc that wanted him paged already took off.

MsPiggy · Dec 20, 2006

1. I can not magically pull rx pads out of my butt!-Really!

2. You can make a copy "all by yourself":idea:-just push the button that says COPY.

3. When you schedule 20 med reviews/pt visits it would be nice if you showed up rather than leave me to explain to a waiting rm full of angry:angryfire patients who have run out of their psych meds that you are not coming.

4. There is NO CHART for a patient you haven't seen before-Ugh!

5. No, we can not just shut the door & leave the open box full of IV narcotics in the exam room until tomorrow:rolleyes:

Good Thread!

Ms.P

SaderNurse05, BSN, RN · Dec 20, 2006

12. When you are the cardiologist on call and the 3 day post op CABG patient's BP is 60/40 manual and in Trendelinberg do not scream at me "what the F** do I care? Why are you telling me this? Just go take it again you idiot. Especially in front of the family member who really likes me because I am the only person who has helped him to understand what we did to his mother and why.

13. When your patient is a diabetic and scheduled for a CABG and you neglect to write orders for BS and/or insulin, and I ask you nicely if that is what you want to do, do not scream at me " I don't give a good *** what her blood sugar is! Then you will get a call from the diabetic nurse educator about evidence based practice that shows if a person's sugars are out of whack they don't heal as well.

SheriLynnRN · Dec 20, 2006

Please do not indicate to your patients that they can go home "now". They cannot leave until the discharge orders are written, the instruction sheets are printed and reviewed with them, they have successfully demonstrated the ability to change their own dressing and empty the JP drain, I've d/c the IV, I've called their prescription to the pharmacy of their choice etc etc etc. And let them know it may take even longer if you've also written discharge orders on six of your other pts on the unit.

And to you Dearest Patient: If you are well enough to be discharged home, than you are too well to rate very high on my continually updating master priority list. I know you just want to go home, but the patient down the hall with an o2 sat of 68% just wants to live.

SaderNurse05, BSN, RN · Dec 20, 2006

Oh, I almost forgot. If you are the hospitalist it is your job to admit the new patients and write orders. When I page you to tell you about a new very ill patient do not tell me you are in line at WalMart so you can get your kid an X-box.