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1. Confront or do a slow burn!

   rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in Relations

   I heard both sides of the phone call. My coworker asked to speak with the nurse manager on our floor. She wheeled her chair over and talked to her with me still there. I heard the entire conversation clearly (mainly because neither one can speak q...

2. Confront or do a slow burn!

   rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in Relations

   I completely agree with the phrase Not my circus, not my monkeys, not my problem. I also believe in being truthful. However, it is very uncomfortable working with someone that is more than happy to text the manager or tattle on her coworkers. Cari...

3. Confront or do a slow burn!

   rich5clark posted a topic in Relations

   Asking for advice. I am an RN and work in a local hospital. The other day I was talking to our head nurse on the phone. A co-worker was nearby and asked if it was the head nurse and then asked for the phone after I was done. I handed it to her...

4. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

   rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in General Nursing

   I will call her tomorrow. She is aware and has spoken with others about it, just not with me! She asked a coworker to give her view of the incident. She did not ask me to though.

5. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

   rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in General Nursing

   Update: Went to education day today. The attending did go to my floor manager. Manager did ask that my co-worker also on that night to write a description of what happened. She did and will leave me a copy also. Talked to a union steward who als...

6. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

   rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in General Nursing

   Excellent idea and I have not done that yet. There was an original pit order that was stopped because of hyperstimulation. The attending had told my co-worker before I arrived that if we needed to restart the pit, we could call her. I talked to th...

7. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

   rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in General Nursing

   My sister is a 5th year ped resident so I am sure that,if she is uncomfortable, she will transfer. But, I don't want her to have to go through the aggravation. I am the one that recommended this MD to my sister. MD has a history of giving nurses hell...

8. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

   rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in General Nursing

   When she kept saying how much she cares about her pts., she looked like she was going to cry. She even had to dab at her eyes. I am feeling like I should have known how dangerous the situation was but I thought I was keeping tabs on it. The MD obv...

9. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

   rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in General Nursing

   But should I have thought to also call the attending when the labor slowed? I normally don't and I was speaking frequently to the covering MD. If I had known she was insistent that pt was to deliver overnight, regardless if it was pit or c/s, I would...

10. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

    rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in General Nursing

    This same MD will be delivering my sister in February so I really don't want to complain on paper. I did document everything.

11. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

    rich5clark replied to rich5clark's topic in General Nursing

    No, I have not spoken with my manager yet. She is not one that backs up her staff anyways, be they right or wrong!

12. Doctor was yelling...told me I was negligent....am I?

    rich5clark posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have a question about an incident that happened on Friday. I was caring for a laboring mom that was at term and had gestational thrombocytopenia. She had had a pitocin gtt during day shift but it was ordered stopped after uterus was hyperstimulated...