For ob/gyn clinic nurses.. a question

[Oedgar]

If you have multiple exam rooms, do you have a doppler for each room? We have 3 rooms, two dopplers, and of course each doc has their own preference for which one they like. So in the middle of my work circus, I have to make sure the doppler travels from room to room. So, the doppler might currently be in one room, another patient waiting in a room, and I am working with next patient... and then I have to make sure that doppler gets moved to next room. Needless to say I occasionally forget. I hate looking stupid. But I also think it's stupid that we don't have dopplers for each room.

[klone, MSN, RN]

I agree with you. Just another example of why your clinic is so inefficient!

Yes, we have handheld dopplers in each room. They're mounted to the wall by a wire rope, so you can remove the doppler from the wall and hold it, but it stays secure so people can't walk off with it (but it happened anyway, someone unscrewed it from the wall and stole it).

[Jory, MSN, APRN, CNM]

Why don't you just put the patient in the preferred room rather than move the Doppler. Put patients that won't need it in the room without one.

Yes, that may mean taking a patient out of order but it shouldn't be more than one slot either way. Clinics are almost never 100% on time and the patients don't know when each other's appointment is. Arrival time makes no difference because some show up early and some late.

It will actually speed up your clinic because you aren't wasting time in between.

[klone, MSN, RN]

Why don't you just put the patient in the preferred room rather than move the Doppler. Put patients that won't need it in the room without one. .

I think because each physician has a room that s/he prefers, so the patients are roomed based on which physician they're seeing, rather than what type of visit it is.

[Oedgar]

Yes, boss doc wants them brought out of the rooms because he is afraid people will steal them. But to me not having one in each room makes no sense. It would be like not having gloves or pap smear supplies in the room and having to bring it in each time. You know you will need it each time; it should be a part of the room.

[Oedgar]

Because of the fact that we share an office with another doc... only three exam rooms and one lab/vitals area, the place is a zoo... the amount of footwork and shenanigans other nurse and I go through to move people in and out is... absurd. Have to put patients in whatever is open and fast.

[xxdiscoxxheaven]

This is what pains me about clinic work. Having to please "the boss"!! I work for one doc with one doppler. However, I still feel the pain of having to meet someone else's demands!

[klone, MSN, RN]

That's what I love about my clinic - it's part of a hospital network, so the providers are beholden to the same "boss" that I am (the CEO of the facility). In fact, because I am the clinic supervisor, I have more decision making power than the providers do.