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I'm with everyone else...would have gone to get the drug myself. then later I would take her aside and say "Hey, let's make a deal...I won't tell you how to take care of your patients, and YOU don't tell me how to take care of mine, OK?"
A lot of what we do is judgment and I cannot tolerate a nurse who automatically always knows it all.
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My patient goes into a sudden rapid sustained svt rhythym, with lowered but stable BP, sat's 99% on 2 liters. I call out for someone to bring me a Cardizem drip, which I had a standing prn order for. The one nurse who had time to help me comes into the room and starts arguing with me that I shouldn't start the drip, I should instead get an EKG, order a Chest xray because the patients sounds wet (I know, she's still diuresing from her last lasix dose.) I gave up and went to get the Cardizem drip myself; she wouldn't listen even though I told her 3 or 4 times I had the order to start the drip, the patient had done this before. The patient was fine, I had it under control, but I wanted to scream. This person is relatively new to our unit, and supposedly has ICU experience.
I was at a loss for words. I'm not good at confrontations and I probalby need to sign up for Assertiveness 101.
How would ya'll have handled it?