scrubberRN

Back to Earth, nurses. You all know that if that "lukewarm lunch" isn't served once in awhile you cry because you're not recognized. You expect presents at Christmas and potlucks on your birthday. And no matter how low the nurse:patient ratio is (here in CA it's 4:1 on an acute floor) half of you will skip orders, ignore phone calls, get other people to start your IVs (do you even KNOW how to start one?) and firmly play the Blame Game instead of owing up to any mistakes. You know that at least 10% of your coworkers do such idiotic things that the MDs consider all nurses to be fools so when something bad happens they automatically throw a tantrum. Stop calling at 2 in the morning for a Chapstick order. Do I believe the author actually had this conversation with a doctor over a sandwich? No. Everyone gets puffed up when they talk about who they are. For someone who admits to "flying under the radar" she also wants everyone to see how cool she is.

I want to create a tutorial for the nurses in my hospital to help them learn cardiac meds and rhythms, something simple. I remember my Anatomy teacher made his own, just a bunch of test questions we'd take over and over until we got them right- like the ACLS disc in the books, kind of. My question is, does anyone know of any such program? Software?

While I can appreciate the Doctor Phils here, I have different advice: Leave it alone. Do you remember why you had a falling out? Did he choose his wife over the rest of his family? Was it something else? Was he falling over himself trying to get in touch with YOU all these years? Let's face it, people are not hard to find these days, especially with family in the area like you have. Personally, I wasn't close to my dad, and we'd had that same "falling out." I'd spent enough energy on that relationship. When he died, I let it go. I didn't have regrets. Parents nurture exactly the kind of relationships they get from their children. Loving? Good for you. Arguments and years without correspondence? Same. That's my 2 cents.

I give up. I look for a job, they post information regarding the RN 1, or 2, or 3, as if I should know what each one entails. I don't. I confess. I have no idea what they mean, I never did. Would anyone be so kind as to educate me? Thanks.

I know this has been covered before in detail, but it bears review because it always comes up. I work on a sizable tele unit. Most of the MDs are okay; some complain and go away. Lately however, a certain cardiologist has been showing up and pitching fits, yelling at nurses, yelling at management. He'll ask to see the nurse and then stand there telling her that none of the nurses on this floor are any good, they have no idea what they're doing, that kind of stuff. He'll walk to the manager's office and with the door open so everyone can hear, yells how nurses have been in control for too long and this is going to stop now, then again with the nobody knows what they're doing. He'll demand to see documentation that certain nurses have been written up and educated, for things like calling him at 8 pm on a rhythm change. Okay- we don't take this crap from familes, if they start raising thir voices to our nurses then security escorts them out. Everyone has to take at least a little from patients though, because of the nature of the business. But doctors? Last I checked, they're employees of the hospital too. We're not working for them. So why should we take this kind of abuse? The cardiologist in question has been written up, but so what? So have other MDs. My question is, what's the next level? Nurses are about to start getting in his face. Managers don't know what else to do except write him up and tell us he's a "jerk." We have an HR, can they do anything? I consider this abuse, would it stand up if I took it to HR? There's no reason we should have to put up with it. Your thoughts would be appreciated.