bigedk

Done it. Learned the hard way that its not worth the trouble. Don't get your meat where you get your bread.

One night as I was walking down the hall of a med/surg floor, a Doc came out of a room (not one of my assigned patient's), telling me to "get in here and do something about this". He pointed to the patients NG feeding tube, which was admittedly sloppily taped in place, and said "Don't they teach you how to tape those in nursing school?" I told him that this was the first time I had ever laid eyes on this patient, but that I would retape the tube. After turning off the feeding pump and verifying correct placement of the tube by auscultating an air bolus, I retaped the tube to my, and coincedentally his, satisfaction. Then, he started to mess with the feeding pump trying to get it running again. After watching him attempt to restart the pump, I couldn't help myself and said "Don't they teach you how to run those things in medical school?" To his credit, he laughed and got out of the way and let me reprogram and restart the pump. After that episode, he was always friendly and cordial to me. Its almost like a Bully situation with some Docs. They will push you around and abuse you until you stand up for yourself. Once you do, they tend to behave. So sad to see this childlike behaviour in supposedly mature adults who are pervasively looked up to as leaders and professionals.