dr won't call back.. grrrrr ..vent

classiccat · Dec 14, 2007

we have this dr at our hospital that won't call back. we page him several times and he dosen't return calls. what is so horrible about this situation is he is the chief medical officer.. the doc we call when we have a problem w/ the doctors.. one time i had a pt with a h&h of 7.1 and 21. he never called back to get an order for PRBC's. i charted that i attempted to reach him and he saw my charting , and told me not to ever chart like that again , it makes him look bad... what a jerk.. anyway i wrote him up and brought it to the dept manager...and who knows what happened. we know write incident reports for everytime he dosen't call back i am always so grateful when i don't get his patients. he dosen't care about the patients and acts as if the nurses are below him. if you do get in touch with him , he tells you to leave a note on the front of the chart, and he will get to it when he comes to the floor.
anyone else ever work with with a looser doc like this?? and how did you handle the creep?.... i was so mad when he thought he could tell me how to chart... grrrrrrrrrrr:angryfire

Do whatever you can to keep the patient safe from harm as allowed by your nursing department policy and at this point WHAT YOUR CONSCIENCE tells you to do. Reading your story ,these doctors will lose their licences or face the jury sooner or later. Have you been called to the witness stand as a nurse? I haven't, but I was in the jury box, listening to what the defendant (nurse) has to say. Oh believe me , the doctor (who didn't return page) got grilled as well. DOCUMENT everything and I mean everything: aside for paging the MD, what else did you do to keep the patient safe from harm? Did you follow the chain of command? Did you get your supervisors involved? The DON? The hospital administrator? While you are rallying all these extra people to help you , what else did you do in your capacity to keep the patient safe? Every minute count and it has to be documented because when you face the jury you don't want to appear as if you 're just sitting there doing nothing while waiting for the doctor to call you back.