Would you stand up for a Doctor?

[HeartsOpenWide, RN]

Would you stand up for a doctor and give him or her your seat? If so why?

I do not know how to makes this a real poll

[Bluehair]

Forgive my ignorance, what do you mean by 'give him/her your set?'

[danissa, LPN, LVN]

Forgive my ignorance, what do you mean by 'give him/her your set?'

I think they mean Seat! and --duh! NO WAY ! First come first gets it seat wise!

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

I was sitting here thinking "set of what?"

Depends on the ssituation.

[Bluehair]

Give him my chair? You mean the one I am sitting in while I am putting in orders,while I am talking to another doc on the phone, & while nodding to my co-worker about something all at the same time? (polite cough).

NO.

Not if I'm using it. If I'm sitting in front of an unused computer terminal and just shooting the breeze when he/she ovbiously needs the computer, yes. Common courtesy rules, but they don't 'pull rank' just because they want/need a chair and they are an MD.

[palesarah]

I'd get up and give my seat to anyone who needed it more than me, whether that's a fellow nurse, a tech, an NP or an MD. If I need to be sitting wherever I'm sitting though, I'm not going to give up my seat JUST because there's a doctor looking for one. But I don't work with doctors who expect that, either.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Manners rule. Someone gave their seat up to me when they were sitting in front of a computer I needed. Like the poster above, I return such common courtesies to others, it doesn't matter if they are a doctor or a tech. The docs come and go so fast sometimes if they need a computer and I can get up for a few and do something else I will, or I'll direct to a place to sit.

As a general rule, just because they walk into a room, I'm not going to give them my seat. They have to politely express a need. :)

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

I work nights and the md's charting table is almost always empty, so if I'm working there and the chairs start filling, I move. If, however, I'm at the nurse's station, and I am using that chair (and need to continue to do so), I'm NOT moving.

Have had a number of times where my stuff is spread out in front of me, I get up briefly and some MD sticks his butt in the chair and dumps a chart on top of my work....I have no problem with picking UP the chart and politely saying "excuse me, all my paperwork is underneath this". They oftentimes move themselves at that point, or if not, hey, I HAD vacated the seat and so I pick up my stuff and go to the next spot :)

If you don't have to have that seat for the computer, and I am working there, trying to finish up before morning report, you can bet I'm not shuffling off.

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

You know, it's funny, but when I saw the title of this thread my first thought was "do we ever need to stick up for them? to whom??" LOL....

[Kim O'Therapy, BSN, RN]

You know, it's funny, but when I saw the title of this thread my first thought was "do we ever need to stick up for them? to whom??" LOL....

Me too!

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

*only* if I was sitting doing nothing, and he obviously had something to do that would be easier while sitting, like charting or making a phone call, go on the computer....I would give *anybody* that courtesy.

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

You know, it's funny, but when I saw the title of this thread my first thought was "do we ever need to stick up for them? to whom??" LOL....

same here... I was all ready to charge off with : "Well absolutely, if they were right, and it involved patient care, bla bla bla...":uhoh3: