TSemperger

We have a physician where I work that is exactly the same way. He thinks nothing of walking into a patients room and telling them, their family, or any other visitors that the nurses are stupid and we don't know what we're doing. He's also the same physician that will march into our managers office and throw a hissy fit because some nurse called him in the middle of the night for orders on one of his patients ... after all, how dare they interrupt his sleep?! He's an important doctor, right?! Our manager usually takes his side too. It's easier to throw her own staff under the bus and agree with this imbecile then to actually grow a back bone and stand up for us.

In my facility, even if you lower the patient to the ground it's still considered a fall. I don't agree with it, but that's their policy.

I report off at 7:30 am but we used to have staff meetings before the day crew even came onto the floor. Thought it was highly rude and unsafe of management and the day nurses to come in and sit for an hour or so while they had a so called staff meeting that the night staff couldn't even attend since we're expected to cover the floor for the hour that the day crew is sitting on their butts. After a 12 hour shift, I'm exhausted and I'm ready to head home. We're always short staffed anymore and I don't think it's unfair of me to expect them to take report and responsibility for their assignment before grabbing a coffee and or snack and sitting on their butts for an hour.

I'm a telemetry nurse and, when we actually had adequate staffing, we would regularly get floated to the third floor which is step down ICU and critical care. We can only take patients that are acceptable for telemetry nurses though - no vents, no A lines, there are certain drips we can't monitor/hang, etc. All in all, despite a few exceptions, I've had good experiences being pulled to the other units. Sad to say, but they actually treat us better than our own management and co-workers anyhow.