Anyone have problems with Doctors who sleep at work

[JessicRN]

I work the night shift and I have been to 3 hospitals in the past 7 years and it seems it is condoned that the doctors can go to sleep. I know it is supposed to be only if the unit is empty and there are no patients to see but our doctors say they are tired and need to nap when patients need to be seen or dispo'd and getting them up to see a new patient is very very difficult. The scary thing is the nurses accept this behavior. We have a PA until 0500 and they are completely on their own.(this is not policy). Then the attending takes over but again. If a pt comes in after five, if he is not critical the MD's say the pt can wait until the intern comes in at 0700. They get paid 7 to ten times more then us and they sleep. :angryfire Anyone else have this problem and what do you do?

[Fran_Nurse]

Hi there everyone,

I woke a doctor up on one night in A&E (ER) to tell him about a patient and he told me,

"Tell the patient to get a pound of mince"

then he layed down again and back to sleep.

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