I recently was told by a physician that I was very hard to get along with and that I was the only Nurse on my unit that did't think he walked on water (yes, he actually used those words). So I told him just exactly what I thought about his 29 year old attitude toward nurses.. He has a very strong problem listening to anything a nurse suggest or informs him of. I told him that he did not like me because I don't sugar-coat everthing for him. I said I was to old and had been in the business to long to start now. Should I have just kept my mouth shut and let him continue the way he acts towards nurses. He has already been wrote up, talked up, and everything else. IT'S NOT SINKING IN FOR HIM??
Moho:devil:
ps: I really am a great person to get along with, I just don't like people that can't respect one another:)
Hooray for every nurse willing and able to stand up for themselves! My epiphany came when I worked a CCU step down unit. We had one attending who treated all nurses as silly nincompoops in awe of his magnificence. We all ran out of the nursing office when he approached. He even followed people to the lounge and waited for them to come out of the bathroom. So, one day we had new chart racks, which sat lower to the floor. The office was full of doctors, nurses students, when this idiot gets down on the floor to get his charts. Suddenly I feel his hairy fingers around my ankle and he's 'No edema here, heh, heh,' I said out LOUD "Get your hand off of my leg. Last week you were feeling up my arm and now it's my leg!" So he does. I turn to the next doc for rounds, and 'say are you ready?' and we leave the office, which is absolutely silent. Suddenly Idiot comes running up to the Doc I'm making rounds with (who was Chief of Staff) and says 'Now Jim I don't want you to get the wrong idea about this sex stuff.' And bless his heart Jim says 'I don't want to hear it Morris'. I never had to run again cause the idiot never spoke to me again. After that I protested when I was being mistreated and everyone listened. I only had to say something once and never had problems again. And still don't 20+ years later.
I am a student and was told by one of my clinical instructors that there are times that doctors and nurses do not get along because mds hate when nurses question their orders. But isn't it that it's our license as well as them that we are protecting? It's not just we question them out of spite but for our own protection?
:chuckle
Exactly. A court or the BON isn't going to listen to us whine "but the doctor order it.....".
I recently was told by a physician that I was very hard to get along with and that I was the only Nurse on my unit that did't think he walked on water (yes, he actually used those words). So I told him just exactly what I thought about his 29 year old attitude toward nurses.. He has a very strong problem listening to anything a nurse suggest or informs him of. I told him that he did not like me because I don't sugar-coat everthing for him. I said I was to old and had been in the business to long to start now. Should I have just kept my mouth shut and let him continue the way he acts towards nurses. He has already been wrote up, talked up, and everything else. IT'S NOT SINKING IN FOR HIM??
JudyPRN
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Hooray for every nurse willing and able to stand up for themselves! My epiphany came when I worked a CCU step down unit. We had one attending who treated all nurses as silly nincompoops in awe of his magnificence. We all ran out of the nursing office when he approached. He even followed people to the lounge and waited for them to come out of the bathroom. So, one day we had new chart racks, which sat lower to the floor. The office was full of doctors, nurses students, when this idiot gets down on the floor to get his charts. Suddenly I feel his hairy fingers around my ankle and he's 'No edema here, heh, heh,' I said out LOUD "Get your hand off of my leg. Last week you were feeling up my arm and now it's my leg!" So he does. I turn to the next doc for rounds, and 'say are you ready?' and we leave the office, which is absolutely silent. Suddenly Idiot comes running up to the Doc I'm making rounds with (who was Chief of Staff) and says 'Now Jim I don't want you to get the wrong idea about this sex stuff.' And bless his heart Jim says 'I don't want to hear it Morris'. I never had to run again cause the idiot never spoke to me again. After that I protested when I was being mistreated and everyone listened. I only had to say something once and never had problems again. And still don't 20+ years later.