He/She Said What!?

BritBSNRN · Aug 13, 2015

Wow, people can be so cruel and I thought we were supposed to be a healthcare "team"! Just goes to show that people do remember what others say and you should not burn bridges.

rnsrgr8t · Aug 13, 2015

I work in a surgical practice as an APN. I have my own panel of patients I follow independently but I also help the surgeons with their patient's needs when they are in the OR. One of my colleagues was operating and one of his patients needed a peer to peer for a study (I forget what now) with the medical director of the patient's insurance company. Now I do these ALL the time. I always identify my self as an NP but typically never have any issues with the medical director discussing the patient with me instead of the surgeon. I call the insurance company, identify myself and hear this from the medical director, " tell me again who you are?", "this is nurse practitioner RNsrgr8t, I work with Dr. Urology and would like to do a peer to peer in order to get an imaging study for our patient". To this I got, "You are NOT my peer, I am not doing this with you. Where is Dr. Urology?". "He would be in the OR ma'am. I am the only one available to do this. This patient needs this study, it is scheduled tomorrow and I quite prepared to discuss the case with you." She refused to talk to me. My MD colleague had to call her in between his cases to do it. This was quite a few years ago and it still makes me angry!!! What if it had been MY patient that needed the study. Would she still have refused to discuss with me?

We have one local hospital here that refuses to accept my orders for laps/imaging etc without it cosigned by one of my Docs. Some of my patients HAVE to go their for their testing due to their insurance. I cannot tell you how many times I get this from their schedulers, " I need a physician name/signature on this order." to which I say, "I don't HAVE a physician seeing this patient, I see this patient independantly". They still refuse. Luckily my docs will cosign anything I ask them to. We have tried to talk to supervisors there etc, just "hospital policy".

DawnJ · Aug 13, 2015

I was once asked "You aren't very smart, are you?"

My response "You aren't very nice, are you?"

BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN · Aug 13, 2015

Why? Why do you want to hear negative statements or make members dig up old and probably not very nice memories?!

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Aug 13, 2015

We (nurses) tend to think we ARE the best profession.
However, other healthcare professions don't always think like we do.
Once, I had overhead a physician tell another nurse,
"I can train monkey's to do what you do."
Can I say Ouch! Not cool....
Leading to my question: What is the meanest insult you have heard a healthcare professional say to another professional or about another professional?

I had the medical director of the ICU tell me, the clinical specialist, that the reason I had to do something for him that he could have done for himself was because "**** runs downhill." I told him that he was entirely too young to say anything that stupid.

ScrappytheCoco · Aug 13, 2015

Resident: "I said I want the bed ALL the way up! Are you stupid, or deaf or something?"

Me: "Are you blind? My finger is on the button."

I was mortified by the word vomit. Thank God the attending burst into laughter so I didn't get in trouble. :dead:

allnurses Guide · Aug 13, 2015

We (nurses) tend to think we ARE the best profession.
However, other healthcare professions don't always think like we do.
Once, I had overhead a physician tell another nurse,
"I can train monkey's to do what you do."
Can I say Ouch! Not cool.... :no:Leading to my question: What is the meanest insult you have heard a healthcare professional say to another professional or about another professional?

I once heard a charge nurse ask a New Grad, "What's wrong with you are you stupid or something?" Granted the new grad was having a deer in the headlights moment but the comment/question was totally uncalled for.

hppy

ambr46 · Aug 13, 2015

Before Ibecame an RN I was an LVN on a med surg floor. This doctor came up to me to give me orders on my patient and then noticed the LVN on my name badge. He then said, "Wait your not even an RN, what am I wasting my time with you for." My jaw dropped and he then tried to minimize the comment by saying he was just joking. JERK!

Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN · Aug 13, 2015

Resident: "I said I want the bed ALL the way up! Are you stupid, or deaf or something?"
Me: "Are you blind? My finger is on the button."
I was mortified by the word vomit. Thank God the attending burst into laughter so I didn't get in trouble.

Thank God they weren't actually blind. Lol.

EmergencyNurse2012 · Aug 13, 2015

Seriously??? what the world?

emmy27 · Aug 13, 2015

I once had a BSN new grad who was shadowing me on the unit and who had not yet passed her NCLEX solemnly inform me that the difference between ADN and BSN RNs is that "ADNs know what to do, BSNs know why to do it."

I was an ADN RN at the time, but I somehow knew both what to do: to tell the manager that I didn't think she'd be a good fit on our LPN/ADN/BSN-mixed unit and why: because she was a pompous little so and so.

proud nurse, BSN, RN · Aug 14, 2015

The unit clerk at the nursing home I used to work at referred to LPNs and "little peon nurse" and she needed to talk with the RNs (real nurse). I was an LPN at the time and was floored by that, since the majority of staff were LPNs.