Policy on working under your personal doctor?

[Devie06]

I have an OBGYN that I LOVE! He also happens to be head of L&D unit at local teaching hospital. I hope to get a job there once I graduate, but if he is my doctor is that a conflict of interest? Its really hard to find a reliable and trustworthy doctor, especially for GYN. I don't think I could sacrifice that. Plus he delivered my daughter, I want him to deliver our second(wherever that happens years down the road). But not sure I'm comfortable with co-workers watching my childbirth experience though, if thats even possible

[caliotter3]

I've wondered about this. I would excuse myself due to conflict of interest.

[evolvingrn, BSN, RN]

I definatley don't work ob but when i did my clinicals there were about 5 pregnant nurses and all of them were using drs that they saw regularly on the floor. if your in an hmo its probably your only choice.. kwim? so i think it would be fine.

[NawtyNurse69]

NO, where I work it would NOT be a conflict of interest at all. MOST, if not ALL, the nurses I work with, are pts of the OB-GYNS that we work with. HTH

[HelenofOz]

I work in the recovery ward (PACU) and over the years have been a patient of two of our surgeons. At all times there has been a professional relationship in both arenas-at work I am an RN, as a patient I am a patient, they are two separate worlds.

One of these surgeons (a gynaecologist) I had always regarded as being over-friendly with his patients, but as a patient I found that he maintained a definite boundary. (I chose him as he was the only one who performed the procedure I preferred)

Many of my co-workers have been patients of our surgeons, and I have not heard a complaint from any of them. Some people prefer not to have their conditions treated at their place of work-I have no problems with it because I know the quality of the staff who are looking after me.

[loriangel14, RN]

I work closely with my family doctor. It works out just fine.

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

I live in a different town than where I work, so none of the OBs at work are my personal doctors. But for most of my coworkers they are both colleagues and their personal doctors. They don't have any problem keeping it separate.

We take care of our coworkers in L&D/mother-baby all the time, and while we already know them as people, we don't treat them any differently as patients than we would anyone else.

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

Since our insurance only pays for us to go where we work, unless we want a big deductable, we all work with our docs on some level of another. We haven't had any problems. I go to deliveries of the doc who delivered my kids, I work with the neos that took care of one of my kids, I work with the peds person who is their doctor and I see the other docs and work with the surgeons I've had personally. It is what it is lol

What was funny/awkward was all the things I said to people I know coming out of anethesia for a surgery I had....they said I had a mouth like a sailor...and I am not normally like that lol Glad they had a hoot on me lol

[DeeAngel]

It is common that OB nurses with the Docs that they see as patients. I don't see it as a conflict of interest at all.

[klone, MSN, RN]

No, no conflict of interests.

What do you do in a small community when there might be only 3-4 OB/Gyns and they all practice at the one hospital (where you work)? It happens all the time.

[CrunchRN, ADN, RN]

It is fine!

Also, when i graduated in the dark ages of 1993 hospitals were all laying off experienced nurses and there were no jobs. I networked with my personal physician and got a job at the large clinic clinic where she worked. You better believe her endorsement helped a lot!