Summer70

Unfortunately we only see the "bad" outcomes. In my area we have a lay midwife that has lost creditably with the nursing staff long ago. When her patients come in they are train wrecks. Pushing for 5 hours against a 8 cm cervix, push with a FHR in the 90s...turns out that was the moms HR....baby had no heart rate when she come in by rescue for "exhaustion", and a PP pt that was allowed to slowly bleed out for 6 hours before being brought in because she was "dizzy & couldn't hold the baby to breastfeed". They only gave her apple juice thinking it was her blood sugar. Turns out she had a cervical tear and retained placenta. These are just a few examples....and each time it happens, we have to wait for charting, prenatals and other information because she "has to gather my thoughts". It is hard to not be frustrated when these cases come in.

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I do understand that I am not going to be in on any disciplinary action, but coming in a week later and still acting like a condescending bully shows me that if he was reprimanded it wasn't severe enough. it just makes several of us uncomfortable and our jobs are stressful enough without having to worry about what might set him off.

I have come across a delema at work that I have not had experience with. I've been an employee of my hospital a long time...with the last 10 yrs as an RN. We had an incident recently where during a Cesarean Section the Physician put his hands on our Scrub Tech in anger and pushed him away from the field saying "get the **** out of my OR" after the Doctor was asked/reminded that what he was doing was "nonsterile/unsafe" The baby was saftely delivered and the patient stable before this occured. This particular doctor likes to make our OR environment "intense" and it is uncomforable and he acts like a bully. Now there are several of us (techs and RNs) that feel that if he put hands on an employee in anger once he will do it again. Risk Management was involved, but there doesn't seem to be any consequences for his actions as he still has a bullying attitude. The tech & doctor are male...could this be the reason that it isn't taken more seriously? Any suggestions are appreciated. Summer