EMS hitch this one takes the Cake!!

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Ran an EMS call today to a Nursing Home (one I'm not familiar with) in a town I'm not familiar with) and in a town I'm unfamiliar with patient had a fall. We go in paperwork isn't ready this is a weekend. We go in talk to the LPN In charge of patient. She informs is that she's busy with a PEG tube machine that's malfunctioning and all the while the family is outside fussing about the machine! The weekend RN sees our frustration and offers to take over handling the tube functions while the LPN comes and gives us all our required documents. What does the LPN reply? "I'm The only Licensed Nurse, so I'm the only one who can actually do the skills and be liable for them, the RN is only Registred to supervise but no licensed. " I look at my partner and I'm like at are you kidding me? Did that really just fall from this ladies mouth. She must not know that when we get to the ER a skilled RN who is very much licensed will be doing nursing skills not just supervising, and she must not know that I've been a CNA for over a year in the nursing home so I happened to know a little about nursing. Me and my partners theory is that she's just one of those type of people who don't like authority and tried to downsize the RN to make herself look better and more accomplished or shes just plain dumb and ignorant and really thinks this! Either way this takes the cake!!

I'll reply as I damn well please.

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Wow Sleepy RN you seem to have issues with EMTs that you need to resolve please stray away from the topic of this nurse saying this and what you think of it, this post was to show what some nurses actually say and how in the works can someone who was educated as an LPN a proffesional nurse could degrade her own supervisor and say what she said. As a Nursing Aide I am very aware of the chain of command in nursing and I know that I report to an RN/LPN as an aide and I'm very much aware of that an RN is a licensed nurse. So don't go insulting my knowledge. The purpose of this post was to show how ridiculous that comment was and what we as EMTs deal with sometimes and are told! And don't worry about my patient my patient was taking care of, by protocol of my EMS agency I don't need you going draw conclusions and worry about the patient that fell. The whole point of this post was the ridiculous comment that this nurse made and I just wanted to share with you all how ridiculous and unprofessional that sounds. So please reply about the comment or don't reply at all thank you!!

I have no issue with EMTs. I have issue with the ones who have recently come to this site putting down LTC nurses. Specifically the one that asked if they should question the competence of the nurses in one particular LTC facility. I also stated that if your account was accurate and there was nothing more to the story, then the nurse you mentioned did not prioritize nor utilize her resources. I ALSO stated to please forgive me because I was extra cranky at 3 am, so I signed off. What irritated me was hearing 2 EMTs within days of each other come to a nursing website and complain about nurses. As far as you having worked LTC, all facilities are ran differently. It is extremely possible that the RN on duty only had a supervisory role and was cluelesss to and out of touch with hands on clinical experience. Its VERY easy to walk into a facility and judge. I've caught myself judging others, but I try to take a step back and think 1: am I perfect and have never said or done anything dumb? 2: is it my place to judge others at all?

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Well, sometimes people say things that are ignorant. OP, it sounds like the nurse at this facilty made an ignorant comment.

Let's all move on.

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