Melanin

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1. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   That's what I was thinking - wait for a year (or maybe two) and then look elsewhere. It would be nice to leave this behind me because even if the new place was short-staffed and crazy, if the MDs behaved as though we were on the same team it'd make a...

2. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   Whoah whoah whoah- I very much appreciate the strong, kind wisdom and concern, but I am NOT suicidal! I was talking about how stress shortens our lives. Thank you very much for supporting me, you awesome nurses. I may well try family practice next. ?

3. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   I don't think reporting people is a good first step, either. At my practice, the surgeons have made a practice of reporting the RNs directly to our manager who then passes their complaints along to the RNs every week at our meeting. Some complaints a...

4. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   Ha ha, that explains a lot. It looks like you have some experience. I'm pretty new (5 years now, second career). Thank you!

5. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   Ok, I should probably explain myself better in regards to the "I don't care" thing, since I don't want people to assume that I fit neatly into the (apparent) stereotype of the RN who asks a million irrelevant & stupid questions - at least, not in...

6. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   I sometimes do that if the patient has an upcoming appointment within the next few days, that's for sure! It's a bit of a Catch-22, because the surgeons don't want us to pester them with questions they think we should be able to answer, but they can ...

7. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   Maybe I don't understand it either. . . basically, we field all phone calls and messages from patients and if it seems like the patient's complaints warrant a visit or trip to the ED we send them on. But we also provide a lot of advice and anxiety ma...

8. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   I hope that made sense. I am a triage nurse who works in an outpatient clinic with providers who provide numerous interventions, including surgeries. I don't work in the operating room.

9. Surgeons - ugh!

   Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

   I work in an ambulatory setting in a specialty where patients come in for treatment. Sometimes the patient needs surgery. Sometimes over the course of the years they need repeat surgeries. Sometimes the patient needs to try medications for a while to...

10. Surgeons - ugh!

    Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

    While I know that they are busy and I admit that reading the room isn’t my greatest talent, I do know that I am not chatty and I have been told that I need to be more forward and ask more questions. Although now that you mention it, maybe I could hav...

11. Surgeons - ugh!

    Melanin posted a topic in General Nursing

    I work in ambulatory with surgeons, and I have been told that the RNs should not venture so far as to recommend conservative pain relief strategies such as icing or warm compresses because we are practicing "out of our scope." I have approached a sur...

12. I HATE contingency orders

    Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

    Understood. But like I mentioned, if I review charts before clocking in, as has been my habit, I have been warned by other RNs - some in a kind way, some in a sort of "if you don't get off my computer, you'll regret it" way - that I could get fired f...

13. I HATE contingency orders

    Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

    That sounds like a great system! It would help so much!

14. I HATE contingency orders

    Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

    True! One barrier I run into is that we're expected to start the shift by taking report at 0700 so that the night shift can leave by 0730 - which seems like plenty of time, but there's a lot going on sometimes. . . From 0730-0800 we start passing the...

15. I HATE contingency orders

    Melanin replied to Melanin's topic in General Nursing

    That's a very good question. I wonder if we could have a certain allotted time in the am to examine all the contingency orders and get the straight, rather than being expected to pick them up on the fly. That is, I don't regularly have enough time du...