Giveyourall

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1. Is it ever ok to stand up to a doctor?

   Giveyourall replied to Giveyourall's topic in Relations

   Ha...good luck calling a halt to any procedure.

2. Is it ever ok to stand up to a doctor?

   Giveyourall replied to Giveyourall's topic in Relations

   The only 'council' we have is our Managers and Supervisors but they are more worried about having a big platter for breakfast for the doctors. I think because most of the doctors have Havard under their belt we are only allowed to say yes. I think I ...

3. Is it ever ok to stand up to a doctor?

   Giveyourall replied to Giveyourall's topic in Relations

   I am neither an angry nor bitter person. I think if you had one day in my shoes you would be surprised. These doctors were the last straw but not because I was trying to project from another situation but they are the same people performing different...

4. Is it ever ok to stand up to a doctor?

   Giveyourall replied to Giveyourall's topic in Relations

   Yes we have silly policies but of course you know we have to adhere to them or we lose our job. Yes the pharmacy issue baffles me also. At the end of the day I will do what's in my scope of care to avoid losing my job, license and being stuck with ov...

5. Is it ever ok to stand up to a doctor?

   Giveyourall replied to Giveyourall's topic in Relations

   Actually the CNAs do say that whether you are on your floor or floating. There may be 1 or 2 that you can actually see on the floor every hour on their shift. They come in, take their vitals, change one or two patients, hide until lunch then they res...

6. Is it ever ok to stand up to a doctor?

   Giveyourall replied to Giveyourall's topic in Relations

   There is no mentor I feel like I can speak to about this manner. The nurses that have been there for 15 yrs or more will promise the doctors that they will basically do their job just to avoid conflict then pass it off to the next nurse.

7. Is it ever ok to stand up to a doctor?

   Giveyourall replied to Giveyourall's topic in Relations

   To everyone that said it was rude in hindsight maybe it was but there was only the doctors I spoke about and a clerk in the nursing station. I would have never have approached them in that manner if the nursing station had more people. This situation...

8. Is it ever ok to stand up to a doctor?

   Giveyourall posted a topic in Relations

   A team of doctors walked into my patient's room and closed the door. Me being the good nurse that I am I asked what they were doing. Of course they were 2 interns and 2 residents teaching each other how to put in a central line. The problem wasn't th...

9. What is it with nurses and cell phones? Just a vent.

   Giveyourall replied to fakebee's topic in Professionalism

   I agree with you about the lack of professionalism but also it affects patient care. At my former hospital my fellow nurses would have 30 minutes long conversations in patients' rooms while they were watching television. I was tired of the care given...