Docs who are actually willing to get their hands dirty.

netglow, ASN, RN · Dec 16, 2010

Also means he came up the work-way. He probably teched at some point. He probably did SCUT and was taught right the in the old ways docs used to be brought up. He knows what his co-workers do and how it all works then. Plus he made it through with :heartbeat intact and perfusing.

smkiya, BSN, RN · Dec 16, 2010

Oh...my...God....
I ain't usually one to post stuff like this but this...I mean...whoa...dude...never seen that before.
We have a new Doc in our facility, a family practice Doc. I recently found an excuse to sneak down to the ED to BS with some friends as I waited on them to send me a new admit. While I was leaving I saw them start to wheel my admit up to my floor. I walked along side them, just talking away with the pt and the guys with the stretcher. I noticed that the guy at the front of the stretcher was new, real nice though, then I saw his name tag...
Me: Hey Doc I can get this stretcher for ya if you want
Doc: Nah man it's cool, I got it.
That ain't nothin' I realize (although for around here it is), but there is more.
Pt was admitted for C-Diff. Doc was rounding the next day, stuck his head out the door and asked for some washrags and sheets...... Um...ok Doc... Pt had a code brown and the Doc was actually completely willing to assist in cleaning them up (he didn't, the techs came in though).
I'm still in shock. We have some good Docs around here, most of them will sit and BS with you once you get to know them, listen to what you have to say. I have never, in 5 years of employment in a hospital, seen a Doc actually willing to clean a pt... Wow.
Just had to share that. I think the planets must have been in proper alignment or something.

Yeah. If I had a nickel for everytime a doc came out of a room and said, "So and so needs a bedpan..." But, hey man, that's not their job.... :rolleyes:

rgroyer1RNBSN, BSN, RN · Dec 17, 2010

Hey in my er the other day I had something like this happen, we have this new doc and he was an LPN before he became a doctor anyways I had this guy with nephritis who was really really ill, I mean he was vomiting, fever, flank pain, trouble urinating, getting septic, ect., anyways we were really busy and I was getting around to him, well the new doc asked were we kept the IV supplies in this particular intermediate side of the ER, and proceeded to tell me he would help me get the IV and get the meds and foley, bloods, and ua, well my mouth almost hit the floor, I mean how many times do you have a doc offer to help initiate an IV, get labs/ua, give meds, and put in a foley.

RNlvn · Dec 17, 2010

Wow hopefully I'll C this one day.

KansasNurseD · Dec 17, 2010

I work in an ED and we have 1 doctor who will walk patients to the bathroom or put them on bed pans (not sure about the clean up though :) ). Our medical director has also been pushing for a team approach, which includes Drs and MLPs helping clean rooms. Hasn't really caught on though.

K+MgSO4, BSN · Dec 17, 2010

We get the trauma Docs to help us to wash pts who are on full spinal precautions. If they are reviewing them after they have been admitted overnight and they are doing a spinal clearance assessment they also get a wash cloth and lotion!

There are only 5 nurses on the ward and it would take all of us off the ward to wash and log roll at 9 am. They all know that so are more willing to assist us :D

ErinS, BSN, RN · Dec 17, 2010

My doc changed a wound on one of my hospice pts the other day. I had to walk him through it, but he did it. I was so proud!

mustlovepoodles, RN · Dec 17, 2010

I have worked with exactly one doctor who was like this, and he was a resident. I assisted with with a lumbar puncture on a neonate one night and he not only threw all his betadine swabs in the trash can, instead of one the floor like the other docs did, when the procedure was done he disposed of all his sharps and neatly wrapped up the remains of the equipment and threw it away. I about fell over on the spot! Turns out both his mother and his grandmother were ER nurses. That boy was raised right!

On the other hand I have worked with way too many holier-than-thous, including one who sat at the nurses desk loudly complaining because one of our very sicke premies wouldn't go ahead and die so he could go back to sleep. :eek: And the mother was holding the baby about 10 feet away, crying her eyes out. I wanted to smack him! (the charge nurse admonished him but he just rolled his eyes at her.)

SweetBabyLPN · Dec 17, 2010

I have worked with exactly one doctor who was like this, and he was a resident. I assisted with with a lumbar puncture on a neonate one night and he not only threw all his betadine swabs in the trash can, instead of one the floor like the other docs did, when the procedure was done he disposed of all his sharps and neatly wrapped up the remains of the equipment and threw it away. I about fell over on the spot! Turns out both his mother and his grandmother were ER nurses. That boy was raised right!
On the other hand I have worked with way too many holier-than-thous, including one who sat at the nurses desk loudly complaining because one of our very sicke premies wouldn't go ahead and die so he could go back to sleep. And the mother was holding the baby about 10 feet away, crying her eyes out. I wanted to smack him! (the charge nurse admonished him but he just rolled his eyes at her.)

WOOOOOOWWWWW!!!! Now I'm usually not one for violence but reading this, I swear I feel like jumping through this screen and into your memories so I can give that doc I swift kick in the neck!Sorry if i've offended anyone.

Dalzac, LPN, LVN, RN · Dec 17, 2010

I worked with an internal medicine doc who would come in on the night shift if we needed him. He would answer the phone and if it was my hubby he would sit and talk to him for at least 20-30 minutes and any other calls. he would even put in orders for us, I loved that guy.

crb613, BSN, RN · Dec 17, 2010

We have an ER doc that is like that...love to work with him! BTW....he was a nurse first!