Our time with the patient is important too.

[babynurse223]

:angryfire I have been a nurse for almost 2 years. During morning hours of day shift, I understand that MD's are making rounds and need to see their patients, just as nurses are passing meds and doing assessments. However, I have found it annoying and unappreciated that patient care given by myself and other nurses is constantly and rudely interrupted by the doctors. While perfroming AM care or doing my nursing assessment, the curtain or door is flung open by a doctor or med student. I am given no courtesy to my job or time with the patient as the doctor starts speaking or even doing an examination with no regards to me being there. I believe both doctors and nurses are an important part of the delivery of patient care, but is this rudeness necessary? Has anyone else encountered this?

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

My favorite is when they come in and rip the dressing off so hard the skin abrades and then the pt starts bleeding. And leave the dressing off, the gown up (on postpartum C/S incisions, especially) and the curtain open.