Can nurses report MD;s and to who

[angelbear]

We have this MD on staff at work who is notorious for being rude to the nurses to the point of neglecting or out right abusing our residents. For example in an emergency the other night we had to call him by order of our NM to ok a prn aeresol because res heart rate was EXTREMELY high and she was concerned that the treatment would make matters worse. So we called him he was very PO'D and rudely said "use your damn prn orders and dont even think of calling me again tonight" He does this sort of thing all the time. He has hung up on us, told us not to bother him and refused to give us needed orders. He has been allowed to get away with this for far too long. We nurses do not feel that he should remain on staff. Since management does not seem able or willing to do anything about this we nurses have decided that when he is on call and we are instructed to or need to call him that we are going to tell the on call NM that she will have to make the call as we will not. Now I know it is not appropriate to mouth off to management like that but we are tired of his abuse and we are not taking it anymore even if it means losing our jobs. Ok back to my question. Can nurses report MD;s to the AMA or somebody and if so how do we go about doing it?

[angelbear]

All excellent advice. I assure you our management is well aware of the problem it has been discussed in many a staff meeting. Even they avoid calling him when they are aware he is on call. We nurses are standing together on this one. We intend to inform management at the next staff meeting that if they are going to keep him on staff they are going to do the calling from now on.

[mattsmom81]

Good luck Angelbear...perhaps your offensive doc will get the message when only management calls him...let us know if it helps. I know on our medsurg units staff nurses ask the charge nurse to call the uglier docs for them. Helps them stay focused on their patient and resist the urge to NOT phone.

Bad phone behavior and passive aggressive maligning has become part of the culture in my ICU for our two biggest groups of docs. And in our current nonsupportive environment, too many of the nurses seem to be picking up on the bad behavior too. I'm cutting my hours in this unit and working another as a result...as it's sucking my energy right out of me...

Once again, nurses are not sticking together...and are compounding a problem...too common a theme, eh?