Nurses in clinical setting: physicians servant or patients caregiver?

[sharifi9879]

After 14 years clinical experiences, this question rush my nerve. What is your opinion?

[sharifi9879]

however, I am in the middle of nursing PHD course, I feel frustrated from working as a nurse in Iran. here everything is in the hand of doctors. they imagine themselves as a king of hospital and say: "You, NURSES, YOU ARE OUR SERVANT, DON'T THINK, DON'T JUDGE, JUST FOLLOW OUR ORDER"

[sharifi9879]

No, I am just a frustrated nurse that seeking some idea to relax my self.

[Farawyn]

No, I am just a frustrated nurse that seeking some idea to relax my self.

Go for a nice walk and enjoy the fall leaves.

[sharifi9879]

Thanks to all for the time you spend. I found that Nursing in USA is very satisfying.

best regards

Hassan Sharifi

وب سایت پرستاری قلب و عروق ایران

[Cola89]

Physicians are servants to big pharma and the hospitals, depending on their specialty. Nurses should be more of a patient-doctor liaison, but with the way the health care (this includes insurance companies) INDUSTRY is, it seems like our roles are reduced. We're all feeling the pain if you ask me.

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

Not in my setting... I work in the OR, surgeons/ anesthesiologists are my coworkers, not other RNs, pretty much. FIRST name basis, right from being introduced, we work shoulder to shoulder , head to head for sometimes ridiculous amounts of hours... we become friends, we talk.. and... they truly TRUST my judgment and opinion...

and if any of them become out of hand ? I have zero qualms about telling them very directly, to calm the F down ... and... they DO

ITS a whole different universe beyond the double doors.... I love it

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

But yet , another one of my pet peeves...in 2017,there are STILL RNs being intimidated, by physicians....