In my part time civilian job the nurses have no rights. One nurse was slapped across the face in her patients room by a dr. one was choked, and the other had a knife pulled on her. All by dr's.
The cases are still pending after 13 months. The dr's are still working at this hospital. The nurses can not come back to work until the cases are resolved.
I don't know about you but I am mad as hell. I want to do something, but what?
What about the law.
Nursing has not come a long way as I see it. Our legal system is also letting this go on, and all the work nurses have done to stick up for there rights is a joke. It's a joke in the eyes of dr's, and anywhere a nurse workes, and our legal system.
Well first of all, me and those doctors would have been going at it. I'm short but I'm mean and they would have thought twice about hitting any nurse again. Then I would have filed charges and no fast-talking hospital administrator would have talked me out of it.
I'M SORRY NAVY BUT I WISH TO GOD A DR WOULD HIT ME! I'D KILL HIS/HER TAIL. THEN I'D DRIVE THEN TO THE POLICE STATION. NOT CCOL...NOT COOL AT ALL. PLUS MY HUBBY WOULD HURT THEM ALSO. THAT'S REAL CRAZY. I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING!!!
The last doctor that hit or threw something at a nurse in my facility wound up on a peaNUT farm in south dakota. Not Allowed. We don't give up our chairs for them anymore either:)
I agree with willdtime. Every nurse in that hospital should have walked out until those so called docs were canned. A few docs short is nothing compared to a hospital with no nurses.
Let's stick together guys, nothing will ever change if we don't!
You have got to be $hitting me!!! So Help me Sheba...if that ever happened to me I would have jock kicked that SOB so hard and fast he would'nt even know what happened to him. AND...if I EVER found out that one of my co-workers was treated this way I would walk out immediatly if there were no actions taken by the admin. to revoke the stupid f@ck's liscence. I am not yet a nurse...but you better believe I will never be treated that way. I grew up in an abusive home 'cause I had no choice, but I'll be damned if I'm going to work in an environment like that! God...I'm utterly disgusted!
Perhaps the nurses involved should not only sue the doctors but the hospital for not providing a safe working environment. Make it a class action suit and get anyone who has been a victim of harassment by those Dr.s involved. Contact some of those hardworking labor unions and find out how to get organized... also try some of the action groups. I'm sure that there are people outside the situation who would be VERY interested in victims essentually losing their jobs because of a doctor's abuse.
What in the world were these nurses thinking? If I was ever hit by an MD - he'd get the sh@t beat out of him!! No holds barred. I was hit in the face by a drunk patient once (hard enough to break my glasses) and in my state (illinois) its a felony - so off to jail he went and believe me, the cops weren't polite.
Well I know in England that this sort of attitude stems from old fashioned nurses perpetuating the 'doc is a god' thing. Once dipped in this solution most doc's expect to be treated like one and they think they can act anyway they want. I once had surgeons throw things at me when I worked as a scrub nurse in theatre. I responded by throwing my instruments down and telling him to get another scrub nurse who was mug enough to stand this treatment. I told him I was there as his assistant not as a rubbing rag and he might have treat women as second rate citizens in his country but they aren't here. This surgeon never treat me badly again. The nurses that you have observed being abused want to get together and refuse to work for him. I'm sure your legal system is supposed to get to the point i suggest these nurses use it or threaten him with losing his career and manlihood.
I can't believe that this would be tolerated by ANY of the nurses or even administrators at a facility much less those it actually happened to. The Docs are still working also? I'd never as a patient have a doctor who pulled a knife on someone nor any of the other acts of aggression that are mentioned. There is something seriously wrong with this picture!
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Original poster said...."One nurse was slapped across the face in her patients room by a dr. one was choked, and the other had a knife pulled on her. All by dr's.
The cases are still pending after 13 months. The dr's are still working at this hospital. The nurses can not come back to work until the cases are resolved. "
Although I would never condone any type of physical violence in this scenerio. I take a bit of offense that the majority of you who replied made the implication that the guilty MD was a MALE. Just an observation.
Tapper, you raise a good point. Although the majority of violent crimes are committed by men and the greater majority of Dr.s are also male, there is no reason to assume all the doctors in question were male. Women tend to be agressive verbally, but listening to some of the replies certainly is eye opening. Violent behavior is on the uprise amongst women. It may be more equal- but it certainly isn't better.
All of that aside, the real problem remains that not only is violence completely inappropriate in any workplace- it is shocking in a field which is supposed to promote health and wellbeing. Zero tolerence- that's my motto!
RNKitty
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DOUBLE DITTO!