Doctors bossing and yelling at Nurses

[Flonightingal]

After 15 years as a nurse, it still shocks me to meet physicians who actually think it is okay to yell, scream, or talk down to nurses. Worse still, there are nurses who actually think this is okay. It reminds me of battered womens' syndrome. How have we let this go on for so long? To illustrate my point, check out this link I found

[RNperdiem, RN]

Have you been at the same workplace for all that time? Where I work, that kind of behavior would never be tolerated.

Is it all the docs, or just a diva-like few?

Also, nurses differ in what is considered "yelling". I read some posters, and when the definition of yelling is clarified, yelling covers anything from polite disagreement to the more theatrical tantrums.

In my twenty years I have never seen any screaming. Now I have had errors in care pointed out to me by doctors, and often I was in the wrong. I don't consider that a problem since it was a legit patient concern and no disrespect was shown.

[anon456, BSN, RN]

Our workplace does not tolerate that. In fact, I heard that a very prominent doctor was put on suspension a few years ago for yelling at a nurse in an abusive manner in front of the patients and other staff. They had been warned about it before.

[elkpark]

I've been in nursing almost 30 years, and I've never worked anywhere where physicians bullying or yelling at nurses was tolerated (even 30 years ago).

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

I watched the two youtube videos on it, one link you posted. It just made me smirk in exasperation. If those two guys are an example of what the general public thinks of nurses, it's very sad with no basis in truth. Just in the past two weeks, I have caught orders put on the wrong patient and told the resident who put them in. Thank goodness both patients were mine, otherwise, it might not have been caught. Doctors and nurses are part of a team; it's not a hierarchical dynamic.