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  1. 37 year old procrastinator - Considering a nursing career

    ActualNurse replied to Nurse Beth's topic in Career Advice Column

    You are

  2. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    That is still no excuse to be assaulting

  3. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah, we wouldn't want them to miss their smoke breaks, would we? Maybe this doc is friends with a pulmonologist and is eager to get referrals to

  4. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    My friend told me a doc examine her breasts in way too friendly a manner. She reported him and he was fined $20,000 but still

  5. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes I had a hysterectomy too. that is why I recall the date so well. I also had given the doc a list of all my surgeries and dates. But I was also over the usual age of a non-surgical menopause. I...

  6. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes I recall being asked the last period question when I presented to ER with kidney stones. I told the doc January 1,

  7. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    They didn't have those policies back then. Doctors used to routinely physically assault nurses with all kinds of things -- surgical instruments, scalpels, scissors, etc. The nurses were expect to...

  8. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Sounds like most of the docs I work with in LTC. Either that or you have to ask them ten times for a drug for a patient before they order

  9. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes exactly. Because we knew the pre-dementia person and it is as if that person has died but there is no closure because another person has taken over them. When I read about people being possessed...

  10. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yes those were the days when nursing managers were nurses and when they stuck up for their nursing

  11. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Yeah probably if it was a laptop. How these unstable docs get through med school, secure jobs and get away with

  12. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I worked many years in LTC and have experienced this with families. It is also difficult for them to accept that their person has dementia. They still see the person as they were before dementia...

  13. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well, some of these docs wouldn't be able to figure that out. I have seen docs stymied as to how to lower a side rail

  14. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    How do these docs get into med school in the first

  15. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Well doc, I guess he is one of those non-compliant patients. This is too

  16. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    These docs don't know how to operate the equipment. Really clueless in some areas. I witnessed a doctor step around a patient who was lying on the floor unresponsive. Big specialist on a neuro ward....

  17. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree, ain't no sunshine going to change it up really. I would tell the resident that he/she can implement this order as you don't have sufficient staff to do so. The song "Ain't No Sunshine" has...

  18. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had a doctor tell me to do a rectal check on a patient like the one you described. Doc said he must be constipated and that is why he is agitated. Patient had hit 4 staff members and was going up...

  19. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    If a manager behaved like that where I work, he/she would be fired

  20. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

  21. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I heard about a psychiatrist who was swinging from the showerhead in the patient tub room to prove that a person could commit suicide in this manner. Her privileges were promptly removed. And how...

  22. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Actually docs do do Paps on hysterectomized women, on the lady partsl vault that is left because they are still at risk to get cancer in this

  23. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    This one I can really relate to. My aunt was on a palliative care unit. The resident told my cousin that the docs don't ask elderly patients about their pain every day because "the elderly will say...

  24. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I could write a book of these stories. Unfortunately, LTC docs are not gerontologists. Many are GPs just trying to get more money by doing LTC on the side in addition to their regular practice....

  25. Dumbest thing a doctor has done/said to you

    ActualNurse replied to WorriedNurse25's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I had a close relative on palliative care recently. I had heard so much about how wonderful the palliative care program in this area was. NOT. My aunt was not appropriately medicated to control her...