pnkprincess

New Balance all the way!

I am a RN nursing student and what happend at work today makes me want to chnage my major. One of my co-workers paged a Dr. to see what time he was planning to make rounds, this was like at 1pm so it wasn't like we woke him up. The pts. family members had plans for x-mas shopping ect. and had already been waiting all morning to speak to the Dr. When my co-worker reached the Dr. he began yelling at her over the phone and said you can't tell me how to care for my pts. I got to hand it to her she held her ground and was assertive during the whole conversation. The charge nurse heard what was going on so she was atleast a witness and also the nursing supervisor just happend to walk onto the floor also. No Dr. has the right to treat anyone like this and this is not the first time he has yelled at a nurse on the phone, it was a different nurse the last time. She went to management and they were suppost to handle it. Obviously it has not been resolved. Any ideas on how to handle this situation? Should you hang up on them?

The floor I work on we do team nursing. Either an RN with and LPN or an RN with a CNT (certified nurse tech, a nursing student with at least one semester under their belt). The teams that contain an RN and LPN take more pts. usually 6-8 sometimes more when census is up. The teams that have an RN with CNT are not suppost to have more than 6. Basically because the student can't pass meds which means the RN has to do the IV and po meds, along with making sure that the CNT is doing their job right since they don't have a license.